Poweredge RAID Monitoring and Debian

What tools do you use to monitor hardware RAID Status on Dell Poweredge 2950 (II and III, perc)? I run Debian. I've used a "debianized" version of dell openmanage in the past. I'm looking for a lightweight solution and (if possible) something "debian packaged".

Any ideas are welcome!

Thanks

As womble said, grab the OMSA packages from that blog post and use NRPE to call check_openmanage.

This'll give you good coverage over all the Dell hardware in your box (including the RAID array(s))

We run OMSA on all our Dell servers, and then have NRPE plugins to query that information to generate results for Nagios to process, graph, alert on, etc.

not debian packaged..

i use ipmi over lan to read drac logs. i run:

ipmitool -L USER -H 10.1.2.3 -U ipmi_username -P password sel elist last 10

this gives me last 10 log messages. if there is something there - probably strange stuff has occurred [ memory errors, redundant psu died etc ]

i run locally MegaCLI to query for raid status. it requires root privileges so i have cron job that executes:

./MegaCli -AdpAllInfo -aALL|grep -v "Current Time"  >> current.txt
./MegaCli -PDList -aALL   >> current.txt
./MegaCli AdpBbuCmd -aAll|grep "Aalarm"|grep -v "^Remaining" >> current.txt
./MegaCli -LDInfo -Lall -aALL >> current.txt

while nagios nrpe plugin just compares current.txt with expected.txt and alerts if they dont match.

you can google for megacli or download it from lsi webpage.