HP System Management Email notification Linux

Does anyone know of a way for a HP Linux server to send and email when identifying issues such as hard disk failure? HP System manament is installed however I can only see SNMP and no email options. What would be the best solution for this?

Thank you

Solution 1:

You'll want to make sure you have the HP ProLiant Support Pack or HP Service Pack for ProLiant packages installed. This can be done one of several ways; tar.gz archive, HP SPP DVD, or my preferred method, via Yum and the HP Software Delivery Repository.

Once you have those packages installed, getting SNMP traps and email notification is easy.

For email, simply edit /opt/hp/hp-snmp-agents/cma.conf

Under the trapemail stanza, either replace the email destination of "root" or at the OS level, redirect root email to the appropriate place.

########################################################################
# trapemail is used for configuring email command(s) which will be
# executed whenever a SNMP trap is generated.
# Multiple trapemail lines are allowed.
# Note: any command that reads standard input can be used. For example:
#             trapemail /usr/bin/logger
#       will log trap messages into system log (/var/log/messages).
########################################################################
trapemail /bin/mail -s 'HP Insight Management Agents Trap Alarm' [email protected]

Save the file and restart the HP management agents with service hp-snmp-agents restart. Pull a power supply cable, disconnect the ILO network cable or something to test the email alert.