Raid:LSI Monitoring
LSI Controller Monitoring
Introduction
Dell Servers - and others (I guess) come the LSI Logic Raid controllers, but ..
The excellent native Raid monitoring in SME is bypassed, this howto describes how to install the mpt-status package and write a small customizable monitoring app
Establish a Console session to do this.
Download
From http://www.drugphish.ch/~ratz/mpt-status/ http://www.drugphish.ch/~ratz/mpt-status/RPMS/1.2.0_RC7/ download mpt-status-1.2.0_RC7-3.i386.rpm
The links there are all dead (404 status). However the software appears to be available from these links:
Taken from the forum: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,49020.0.html
Install
yum localinstall mpt-status-1.2.0_RC7-3.i386.rpm
Support Program
- CheckMPT
#!/usr/bin/perl
# With credit to :
# => check_mpt.pl Copyright (C) 2006 Claudio Messineo <claudio@zero.it>
$mpt_path="/usr/sbin/mpt-status";
$num_raid=2;
$enabled=1;
$sendto="admin";
$sendfrom="admin";
`/sbin/modprobe mptctl`;
sleep 1;
if ( ! open( MPT_STAT, " $mpt_path | " ) ) {
print "ERROR: could not open $mpt_path\n";
exit 1;
} else {
while (<MPT_STAT>) {
if ( $_ =~ m/ENABLED/ ) {
# print "$_";
$enabled--;
}
if ( $_ =~ m/ONLINE/ ) {
# print "$_";
$num_raid--;
}
next;
}
my $hostname=`/bin/hostname -f 2>&1`;
chomp($hostname);
if (($num_raid==0) and ($enabled==0)) {
# sendEmail( $sentto, $sendfrom, "$hostname Mpt-status OK", "$results" );
# print "$hostname Mpt-status OK\n";
exit 0;
} else {
sendEmail( $sentto, $sendfrom, "$hostname Mpt-status Alert", "$results" );
print "$hostname Mpt-status Alert\n";
exit 1;
}
}
# Simple Email Function
# ($to, $from, $subject, $message)
sub sendEmail {
my ($to, $from, $subject, $message) = @_;
my $sendmail = '/var/qmail/bin/sendmail';
open(MAIL, "|$sendmail -f $from -oi -t");
print MAIL "From: $from\n";
print MAIL "To: $to\n";
print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n";
print MAIL "$message\n";
close(MAIL);
}