[xymon] HP Proliants

[Colin Coe]

Hi Vernon

Yep, I recalled that it could be done not how.

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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Colin Coe <colin.coe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> CC
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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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