The present article provides an approach for monitoring a raid. I would like to run freenas on a hp p410 hardware raid 5 4x600gb 15k sas array and be alerted in the case of physical disk failure, however the freenas documentation says to prevent problems, do not enable the s. With the move from g5 to g6 servers, the hp raid controller driver changed from the. Not all configurations that are made available by the raid chipsets or plugin cards are supported by hp.
Hp proliant array configuration utility for windows 64bit. Software raid is only not recommended for windows because its generally so terrible in windows. Ill definitely be emailing my hp reseller on this one. Once installed and snmp is configured, fans, power supplies, raid. Not all of them are supported options for hp linux. This will allow you to receive email alerts when your raid status is not ok.
As the name suggests, this utility is for hp servers. Hp zseries workstations configuring raid devices hp. Opmanager simplifies storage device monitoring and is one among the leading storage monitoring tool available in the market. The linux kernel supports raid 0, raid 1, raid 4, or raid 5. I know that mds tools have buildin raid tool that informs you when something is wrong but i would also like some weblike tool. Now we know we have a hp machine, proliant dl180 g6. With the newer driver, you wont see the cciss block driver. Ive been searching for a way to reliably monitor a raid array. Can anyone point me to information user manual or similar for hp raid management software under linux.
For hp systems, this helps narrow down to a particular model or part number. The right mix of options can lead to improved efficiency and productivity, faster problemsolving, more stable operational infrastructure, and increased agility. Hardware raid for hp linux workstations is currently supported for userconfigured raid solutions for the hp workstations below. Network monitoring software by manageengine opmanager.
Hp array configuration utility cli for linux to manage and daignose raid online smhlocal management software. Raid monitoring on dl380 g7 hewlett packard enterprise. Ubuntu and debian have always had less official support from hp than the red hatsuse. There is a number of free software, open source, and commercial solutions available which can be used for software raid monitoring on linux. If you read my previous article detailing how to install hp acu cli on debian, then your next logical question might be, how do i monitor the raid array. Monitoring and managing linux software raid prefetch. If you are running ubuntu server skip to the bottom for some good news. Hp snmp agents for suse linux enterprise server 10 x86. Jul 19, 2006 anyone knows a nice raid monitoring tool. Set up raid monitoring on a server nable technologies. Before attempting rpm maintenance, hp recommends terminating the agents with etcinit.
They should be supplying the software then to monitor raid. Hi, im about to start using hp proliant hardware with suse sles 10. For linux sata raid, refer to the software raid in linux workstations section in the hp workstations for linux user guide. For this concern you need to create an exescript sensor which executes a corresponding vbscript. Monitors hp raid controller, this is not checked by the normal hp hardware check in op5 monitor. Provides hardware raid driver for various linux distributions. Hp tools will not work as the raid is purely at the driver level above the os and does not exist on the server itself. How to monitor a raid array in ubuntu server kevin. Logicmonitor can monitor the underlying hardware health of your hp system when running both windows or linux by installing the hp system management homepage for linuxwindows package on the system.
It covers an overview of hardware raid solutions, the differences between software and hardware raid offerings, and information regarding the configuration of hardware raid on hp linux workstations. The hp server management drivers and agents hpasm replace the hp proliant advanced server. The opinions expressed above are the personal opinions of the. Utilities for the cciss driver also work with this driver, though they should be directed to use the devsgx generic scsi devices rather than the cciss devices as all the hp. Hpacucli is used to create, delete and repair the logical and physical drives on the smart array. The following shows how this tool can be used to create a new raid. How can i monitor hardware raid health remotely on.
Home hpc tech tips monitoring hard drive and raid health linux sata raid, refer to the software raid in linux workstations. Implementing linux software raid1 on hpe proliant servers. May 23, 2019 such disasters are easily avoidable using raid hard disk monitoring software. May 28, 2010 ive been searching for a way to reliably monitor a raid array. How can i create a sensor to monitor the raid status for hp. Raid monitoring and email notification is possible thru hp acu cli using the script. With the move from g5 to g6 servers, the hp raid controller driver changed from the legacy cciss driver to the new hpsa driver. Megaraid windows drivers for trimode intel raid controllers using sas software stack.
When i look at hp s website for software and drivers for the servers, i do see a raid controller monitoring. Hp microserver gen8 how to tell if drive is going bad. This document describes how to create, manage, and recover the raid system using the minnow valueadded software provided by hewlett packard enterprise. Configuring a new hardware raid on a hp server can be done comfortably from the linux command line without restarting the server. This chapter describes how to configure sas lsi raid and sata raid intel matrix devices, and includes these topics. Solved using opmanager to monitor software raid linux. The hp proliant support pack psp for linux allows reading out hardware details from a hp proliant server. Hp z620 workstation software and driver downloads hp.
I want to know if there is another way other than the psp software. This document describes how to create, manage, and recover the raid system using the lsrrb valueadded software. Some software requires a valid warranty, current hewlett packard enterprise support contract, or a license fee. Were assuming you already installed centos using the official hp raid driver and are. Many of the horror stories that come to the linux raid mailing list are down to a simple lack of monitoring. It is possible to monitor a windows software raid with prtg. Hp provides a small command line tool for this job.
Raid card monitoring management tools for dl160 g6 with p411 controller. How can i create a sensor to monitor the raid status for hp or ibm servers running on windows. Utilities for the cciss driver also work with this driver, though they should be directed to use the devsgx generic scsi devices rather than the cciss devices as all the hp specific ioctl interfaces are identical. The first resource i found is from the linux raid wiki. Hp array configuration utility cli for linux 64bit. A search on freshmeat should return a good number of matches. Hard drive manufacturers provide their own native monitoring tool to track hard drive health and performance. Im familiar with the ibm raid manager and would like to confirm that the hp. Eliminating most of the hardware raid controller components and relocating advanced raid algorithms from a hardwarebased controller into device driver software lowers the total solution cost, while still maintaining comparable raid. Searching the net will yield a multitude of solutions however, we are fans of simple small footprint solutions, so that is the approach we will take. Similar to munin for example where it shows status of array, detailed info of all arrays and so on been searching for it for quite a while yet i cant find anything usefull. Mar 12, 2014 if you read my previous article detailing how to install hp acu cli on debian, then your next logical question might be, how do i monitor the raid array. This document describes how to create, manage, and recover the raid system using the minnow valueadded software. Similarly, mdadm watches the health of your linux software raids for any problems.
How can i create a sensor to monitor the raid status for. Raid mangement of hpe proliant microserver gen10 hewlett. There are a few ways to monitor hard drives, as follows. Once installed and snmp is configured, fans, power supplies, raid status, individual disks, memory, chassis temperature, etc. I notice it seems to have a sql server express or some other database in it. I wanted to keep an eye on the hdds, so i needed to install a utility that can monitor and interact with the raid controller. Minnow redundant boot strategy for software raid1 in linux is a solution that uses indistro opensource software to build and create a twodisk raid1 redundant boot volume in uefi mode. Hp proliant servers raid monitoring utilitysoftware. These drivers and agents collect and monitor important operational data on proliant servers. Could you please help me create a sensor to monitor raid status on hp and ibm servers. Eliminating most of the hardware raid controller components and relocating advanced raid algorithms from a hardwarebased controller into device driver software lowers the total solution cost, while still maintaining comparable raid protection and full compatibility with. Complete set of asset, capacity, performance, and configuration information of the raid. This section deals with hardware managed linux volumes. In order to overcome this problem, one should look towards real monitoring solutions.
I didnt see any software on the hp support site that seemed to offer the functionality. Logicmonitor can monitor the underlying hardware health of your hp system when running both windows or linux by installing the hp system management homepage for linux windows package on the system. This plugin monitors the hardware health of hp proliant servers, provided that the hpasm hp advanced server management software is installed. Its based on java, but can easily be called periodically from windows task scheduler, andor at system startup configuration and batch file is included. How to monitor a raid array in ubuntu server sookocheff. Feb 19, 20 hp proliant array configuration utility for windows 64bit. Linux debian hp smart array raid controller vps hosting. Opmanager also allows you to configure thresholds and depending of the criticality of the fault condition, each event and alarm is assigned a severity. Monitoring compaq or hp smart array raid status on centos. For example, when one disk in raid failed, an email will be sent to inform me about that. Dell device troubleshooting if you have problems with raid monitoring on a dell device, this maybe because the raid card does not use battery, and the service is looking for one.
How to monitor an hp raid controller support itrs group. The problem i am trying to resolve is that i need to monitor some proliant servers temp, fans etc running linux. This little utility monitors the health of your windows software raid. Is there a utility to give me the status from within windows server 2008. In order to just get the raid configuration and management software, pull the hpacucli utility down from hps repository.
There are different levels of hardware raid available. Hp insight diagnostics online edition is a webbased application that captures system configuration and other related data needed for effective server management. Ubuntu and debian have always had less official support from hp. Hpe dynamic smart array is a raid solution combining a storage host bus adapter hba and proprietary software components. Some software requires a valid warranty, current hewlett packard. At the very least, youll want the hpacucli command line utility.
One of our servers is an hp compaq 2u machine dl380. I found a few resources and decided to compile them in one post. Attach the required minimum number of sata hard drives for the desired raid level. The kernel also supports the allocation of one or more hot spare disk units per raid device. Download the latest drivers, firmware, and software for your hp z620 workstation. Hp recommends that you begin the process of upgrading to windows 10 if your computer has been tested by hp. Install hp proliant management utilities tinnedsoftware blog. I have already installed insight manager but there isnt events concern raid status.
It is also able to monitor the system health of hp bladesystems and storage systems. This download provides intel raid web console 3 version 007. For a really simple monitoring of 4disk md raid something like this every 15 minutes. Dose hpe proliant microserver gen10 have smart array s100i software raid. The custom sensor as described here will be able to. It assumes a basic understanding of computer hardware, filesystems, and the linux operating system. Hp management software for linux on proliant servers. I have a z640 and ive used the onboard intel raid controller to create a mirrored pair. How can i monitor hardware raid health remotely on networked devices. Monitoring and management of raids in opmanager heterogeneous management tool for storage area networks. Search hpe support center drivers for hpe smart array p410. By downloading, you agree to the terms and conditions of the hewlett packard enterprise software license agreement. Install hp proliant management utilities experiencing.
Need your advice, ive installed new dl380 g7 serwer on win2008 r2 server, now i need to have raid monitoring with email notification, can anyone instruct me how to do this. Your drive device will vary depending on your smart array controller. Okay, its not unknown for several disks to fail simultaneously, and if your raid array consists of a bunch of drives all bought at the same time, for the array, the odds of that happening are painfully high batches of disks tend to have similar lifetimes. Regardless, your key to monitoring smart array raid controllers is to install the hp management agents. The hpsa driver is an opensource device driver used with hp smart array sas raid array controllers. I can see the status by rebooting and going into the config utility. Snmp oids for hp p410i raid card hello we have a proliant server with a p410i raid card customer called us to tell us theres a red light on the server it was a damaged disk, and the embedded raid. I think i need something like hp insight manager, but i want to check a few things before i download it. Linux hp smart array raid controller sumguys ramblings. I need to install the monitoring software for the raid array on an hp ml110 g5 server. You can check the status of a software raid array with the command cat procmdstat. Lsrrb linux software raid redundant boot is a solution that uses indistro opensource software to build and create a twodisk raid1 redundant boot volume in uefi mode. Is there some way i can do that, say via snmp or monitoring the windows event logs. If you are using a hardware raid controller, then it manages some of these tasks.
Monitoring compaq or hp smart array raid status on centos june 24, 2012 centos, linux this howto will step you through the process of setting up the required software to be able to check the status of a compaq or hp smart array and the attached physical and logical drives on centos 6 or rhel. Monitoring compaq or hp smart array raid status on centos june 24, 2012 centos, linux this howto will step you through the process of setting up the required software to be able to check the status of a compaq or hp. Raid monitoring howtoforge linux howtos and tutorials. Its working well, but id like to monitor the drives so i know if one has failed and should be replaced.
However, you must be sure to properly configure the automated alerts within the controllers management interface check the manual for full instructions. Create hardware raid on hp via hpacucli experiencing technology. This generally works quite well, but we dont use one of the handful of linux distributions that hp supports so from their site we find a great lack of information on how to administrate or monitor the raid. Hp proliant ml310 g5p how to check raid array status. If the lsi software makes the raid information available to snmp queries you can use almost any network monitoring software to monitor the raid status of all of your devices and report any degraded arrays or potentially failing drives.
Sas hardware raid driver for linux provides hardware raid driver for various linux distributions. We recently started using hp proliant servers and i cant seem to find a utility to monitor the raid status. This is hps official website that will help automatically detect and download the correct drivers free of cost for your hp computing and printing products for windows and mac operating system. If this is an hp device, and things are still not working, you may need to reinstall hp insight manager and repeat this process. Software managed linux volumes are usually set up via lvm logical volume manager.
There are a number of free software, open source, and even commercial solutions available which can be used for software raid monitoring on linux. Raid card monitoring management tools for dl160 g6 with p411 controller hi allen, hp 100 series servers do not have management capabilities. How can i monitor hp p410 hardware raid degraded in freenas. Hewlettpackard company smart array p410 kernel driver in use. It is also able to monitor the system health of hp. Is there some way i can do that, say via snmp or monitoring.
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