[xymon] Disk failures

[Larry Barber]

To tell you the truth I have no idea, I'm not a Windows guy and have no idea
how Windows does things like that.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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 <lebarber at gmail.com> 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 <
>> johan.sjoberg at deltamanagement.se> 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:lebarber at gmail.com]
>>> *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
>>>
>>
>>
>
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