Re: [xymon] Disk failures

[Vernon Everett <everett.vernon (at) gmail.com>]

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
>>
>
>