[xymon] HP Proliants

[Vernon Everett]

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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