Re: [xymon] Disk failures

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

Hehehe.
Sounds like we suffer from the same problem. Although, I don't really
"suffer" from Windoze ignorance, I quite enjoy it. :-)

In a previous contract, I found a Windoze guy who could program in something
on Windoze.
No idea what, it may have been perl, it may have been powershell.
I showed him how to write scripts, and integrate them with bb (bbwin in his
case), and off he went.
We started monitoring all sorts of stuff using his scripts.

I suggest you go chat to your Windoze mob, and see if you have such a guy in
your team.
If you speak bash, you could always install Cygwin on your windows boxes,
and then create bash scripts to do the same.
Of course, you might find yourself up against the cause of great
inefficiency - Corporate Policy

Cheers
     Vernon

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Larry Barber <lebarber (at) gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>