[xymon] HP Proliants

[Colin Coe]

Thanks David, I had overlooked the hpasmcli command.  Working on the script now.

SNMP is simply not allowed.  Blocked by firewalls and disallowed by policy.

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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Vernon Everett
<everett.vernon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Colin
>
> Unless there is some method of checking the hardware from command line, SNMP
> might be your only answer.
> Have you tried to snmpwalk localhost?
> If SNMP is being blocked at firewall or network level, a server may still be
> able to interrogate itself. It's a long shot, but give it a try. It depends
> on where your SNMP traffic is being blocked. If you have to interrogate a
> LOM, try doing it from something on the same subnet.
> If it works, you can then write a client script that does snmpget, and you
> can that to send a test to Xymon server in the usual way.
>
> Regards multiple views, the feature you are looking for is described in the
> bbgen(1) man-page, look for the "BUILDING ALTERNATE PAGESETS" section.
> At our last mutual contract, you may recall, we did exactly that.
>
> Also, search the archives. http://www.xymon.com/archive/
> There are a few good descriptions floating about of how to do it.
> Password access to the different pages is handled by your web server.
>
> Cheers
>      Vernon
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Colin Coe <colin.coe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:07 AM, David Baldwin
>> <david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au> wrote:
>> > Colin,
>> >> Hi all
>> >>
>> >> Has anyone got Xymon monitoring HP Proliant power supplies under Linux?
>> >>
>> >> Also, has anyone got monitoring of HP Proliant RAID and or power
>> >> supplies under Windows?  (Win 2003 and 2008R2)
>> >>
>> >>
>> > This is possible using devmon, assuming you have Linux proliant service
>> > pack installed or Windows SNMP service installed and running and HP
>> > agents. Covers DL series Proliant servers. devmon takes a bit of
>> > fiddling to get running but is very good once you've got it right.
>> >
>> > ML servers are another can of worms entirely... You can choose between
>> > IPMI or parsing web pages from ILO100 cards. RAID checking requires
>> > running hpacucli utility.
>> >> Still trying to get role based views going.  Has anyone done this?
>> >>
>> > Not sure I understand what you mean. Are you talking about generating
>> > custom views for particular groups - e.g. admins, management, etc?
>> >
>> > David.
>> >
>> > --
>> > David Baldwin - IT Unit
>> > Australian Sports Commission          www.ausport.gov.au
>> > Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830       PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616
>> > david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au          Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617
>> >
>>
>> Hi David
>>
>> I can't use SNMP as the security policy does not allow SNMP traffic in
>> the network where these servers are located.  The servers are all
>> either DL380G5 or G6 with some new DL385s likely to land soon.
>>
>> I'd like to prevent user group A viewing user group B's systems and
>> visa versa.  This is where to roles come in, if there is another
>> solution I'd be happy to hear it.
>>
>> I've just got the HP RAID checks working on a couple of test (Linux
>> based) Proliants.  As we've had a couple of power supplies fail, I was
>> hoping to monitor these as well.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> CC
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