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Disk failures

list Vernon Everett
Wed, 3 Nov 2010 09:41:01 +0800
Message-Id: <AANLkTi=_KKG1xcjt80u_7TRKLmavTm=user-6e8fb351c60c@xymon.invalid>

If you were logged onto the server, how would *you* detect that a RAID disk
had failed?
Now see if you can get a powershell or perl script to do the same. (You are
not limited to these. Use any scripting tool that is accessable and easy for
you)
Translate the results into red/yellow/green with a little script logic, and
add some useful information if you like.
Pass this to bbwin, and you got a RAID test.
Check Xymonton for some examples of similar tests.

Regards
     Vernon


On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Larry Barber <user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Yes, I'm aware of that, but our security people get a serious case of hives
over SNMP. If there was some other way to do it, it would be a lot easier.

Thanks,
Larry Barber


On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Johan Sjöberg <
user-74c177c1220d@xymon.invalid> wrote:
If you are using Windows software RAID, you could monitor the event log to
see if a disk fails. Unfortunately, I don’t know what messages might be
relevant.

If you are using hardware RAID from HP or Dell (probably others as well),
you can use the vendor-supplied agents to monitor the system via SNMP using
devmon.


/Johan


*From:* Larry Barber [mailto:user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* den 2 november 2010 16:09
*To:* xymon at xymon.com
*Subject:* [xymon] Disk failures


Can Hobbit detect when a RAID disk fails on a Windows box? If so, how does
it show up?

Thanks,
Larry Barber