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How can I monitor the status of the hard disks and the RAIDs of an HP Proliant server using Ubuntu 12.04. In Ubuntu 10.04 I could use the cciss-vol-status to query the RAID status periodically but cciss-vol0-status doesn't work on 12.04 anymore. In 12.04 there are no /proc/driver/cciss or /dev/cciss directories.
ewwhite4 Answers
Grrr... Ubuntu. :)
What type of HP ProLiant server is this? (model and generation, please)
Your drive device will vary depending on your Smart Array controller. With the move from G5 to G6 servers, the HP RAID controller driver changed from the legacy CCISS driver to the new HPSA driver. With the newer driver, you won't see the CCISS block driver... Devices will be /dev/sdX.
Regardless, your key to monitoring Smart Array RAID controllers is to install the HP Management Agents. At the very least, you'll want the hpacucli command line utility. Ubuntu and Debian have always had less official support from HP than the Red Hat/SuSE. However, there is a Debian ProLiant Support Pack that includes agents and tools for Ubuntu/dpkg systems.
That' more of a comprehensive approach that can generate SNMP traps and nifty email alerts. In order to just get the RAID configuration and management software, pull the hpacucli utility down from HP's repository.
You may need to also apt-get install lib32gcc1 lib32stdc++6 libc6-i386 to meet 32-bit prerequisites.
From there, you can use some common hpacucli commands to obtain RAID status. An easy example:
The steps as follows is what I did to get it working for Ubuntu 16.04.
ThomasYou can also use repos as written here: http://sysadmin.te.ua/linux/hpraid-monitoring.html
This repo has almost all raid monitoring utils for all type of raids! Regards.
ETLIt seems like things have changed slightly. User410516's answer is roughly on target, although somewhat brief.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise repos are now managed here. For Ubuntu 16.04 I found I needed the 'Management Component Pack for ProLiant' which is described as 'Agent software for Ubuntu, Oracle and community distros'. HPE provide the add_repo.sh script to add their repos to your installation.
This script didn't register HPE's keys so following this instruction:
Running an apt update the following new packages become available.
- cpqacuxe
- hp-ams
- hp-health
- hp-smh-templates
- hp-snmp-agents
- hpacucli
- hponcfg
- hpsmh
- hpssa
- hpssacli
- hpssaducli
And we can apt install hpssa hpacucli hpssacli hpssaducli.
We can see there's a failed drive there and we can get the details for replacement with:
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I am trying to install the latest release (10.04) of Ubuntu server. Hardware is a brand new HP Proliant DL380 G6 with four SAS hard drives at 146 GB each. I want to run RAID5 or similar with one spare disk.Since linuxinstallations are not my best area of knowledge I got stuck.
First attempt I just run the installation, choosed the 440 GB harddrive in the partitioning part of setup for installation and went on. All went fine until setup was done and server rebooted, it then stopped without any message in the beginning then trying to find bootable devices (I.e., it did not find the Ubuntu installation at all I think).
So after some reading I decided to go for software raid. I went into disk manager at BIOS (F8) and deleted the array so that I should be presented with four 146 GB disks during setup. At least I thought. In the config application in BIOS the array was deleted and it says: 'No arrays definied'.
This time, at the partitioner during installation, still only one disk shows up. I'm trying to give you a 'screen dump' of the partitioner screen in the code section below.
Since it still tells me the disk is 440 GB (raid5 with 3 units x 146 GB) there are three cause for this:
1 I failed to delete the array in the BIOS setup of raid array
2. Ubunbu installation has automatically created it for me (hardware raid)
3. Ubunbu installation 'guess' I want i RAID5 with 3 units and have already done it for me with software raid.
Please guide me in the right direction.