From: Michael T. Halligan (michael_at_halligan.org)
Date: Tue May 01 2007 - 09:11:01 CEST
Message-Id: <8BAA6A7D-310B-4FAA-B0F7-DE975150F50E@halligan.org> From: "Michael T. Halligan" <michael@halligan.org> Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 00:11:01 -0700 Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES 9 and Compaq Proliant DL-380 and DL-385 hard drive (/dev/cciss) monitoring
On Apr 30, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Greg Byrd wrote:
> Two reasons not to use snmp: 1. our security team will not approve
> the use of snmp, and 2. IMHO, snmp is difficult to secure. I've
> looked around for a good article on securing snmp (encrypting the
> traffic would be good), but no luck. I don't want someone to alter
> snmp traffic and cause problems (false alerts, etc).
>
If somebody is in the position to alter your monitoring traffic
solely for creating false alerts, it's highly likely there's somebody
in your systems team who needs fired. This is just silly.
> We use Oracle, but haven't looked at their enterprise manager.
> We're running Oracle on our mainframe guests, as well as RAC 10G on
> AMD servers, but Intel elsewhere.
>
> I really don't want to get into using an application that's kernel
> specific. Since we use Novell's stock kernel, compiling HP's
> source rpm for quad-port GB nic is kernel dependent (upgrading
> kernels breaks the kernel bonding). Having to compile rpms for
> three hardware architectures is a real pain for each kernel upgrade.
>
> That's more info than was asked about, but I really do appreciate
> the input. 8-)
>
> Greg
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Alexei_Roudnev <Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com>
> To: Greg Byrd <gbyrd@yahoo.com>; Gordon Ross <G.Ross@ccw.gov.uk>;
> suse-sles-e@suse.com
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 4:07:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES 9 and Compaq Proliant DL-380 and
> DL-385 hard drive (/dev/cciss) monitoring
>
> 1) WHy dont install snmpd?
>
> 2) Did you try Oracle enterprise manager ? (Aside of licensing
> questions,
> which are weird) It is a very solid monitoring SW package and it
> recognized
> all DEL specific stuff - may be it can recognize Compaq specific
> stuff as
> well?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Byrd" <gbyrd@yahoo.com>
> To: "Gordon Ross" <G.Ross@ccw.gov.uk>; <suse-sles-e@suse.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 2:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES 9 and Compaq Proliant DL-380 and
> DL-385 hard
> drive (/dev/cciss) monitoring
>
>
>> We don't have snmp installed, so I'm looking for something that uses
> syslog.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Gordon Ross <G.Ross@ccw.gov.uk>
>> To: suse-sles-e@suse.com
>> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 3:06:27 PM
>> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES 9 and Compaq Proliant DL-380 and
>> DL-385
> hard drive (/dev/cciss) monitoring
>>
>>
>>>>> On 30 April 2007 at 21:58, in message
>> <772243.12625.qm@web39602.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, Greg Byrd
>> <gbyrd@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a way to monitor for hard drive failure on our
>>> DL-380
>> and
>>> DL-385 servers (DL-380 models include G3 and G4, whereas DL-385
>> servers being
>>> G1). I've rebuilt the cpq_cciss rpm, but since we don't use snmp
>> (required
>>> by cpqarrayd), I'm having trouble getting this rpm rebuilt without
>> failing
>>> net-snmp checks (installing net-snmp doesn't resolve the issue).
>>>
>>> With this in mind, I'm wondering what others are using for hard
>>> drive
>>
>>> monitoring on Proliant DL-38X systems. The utility needs to utilize
>> syslog
>>> for alerting.
>>
>> Have you looked at and ruled out the Proliant Support Packs ? These
>> provide monitoring tools/agents - typically used via SNMP.
>>
>> GTG
>>
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