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Ideally, with as simple of install as possible and without requiring rebooting the servers. Mostly for DL380 G5's if it helps. Thanks.

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Shame they're not G7s, or you could use HP Insight Manager. – Tom O'Connor Dec 19 '11 at 15:18
Are your servers running Windows or Linux? – Tom O'Connor Dec 19 '11 at 15:20
What operating systems are you running on these servers? – ewwhite Dec 19 '11 at 15:20
They're all 2003 or 2008 both vanilla and R2. I played with SIM but it wasn't able to talk to my G5's. – DrZaiusApeLord Dec 19 '11 at 15:36
SIM should still be compatible with G5 ProLiants. Did you have the agents installed when you tried before? – ewwhite Dec 19 '11 at 16:22

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This depends slightly on the operating systems you're running on the servers, but in general, it is possible to obtain alerts from HP ProLiant servers and Smart Array RAID controllers.

The full driver and software support listing for your DL380 G5 systems is listed here.

SNMP and a monitoring solution is the best approach... But you can augment that with some of HP's tools. HP offers the HP Systems Insight Manager, which is available for download and also comes with the servers. This is ideal for collections of servers. If you're looking for one-off alerts without building a management or monitoring infrastructure, you can simply install the HP Management Agents (aka ProLiant Support Pack).

For standalone Linux systems, I'll have the agents send traps via email. I'll usually configure the support pack with defaults or a custom bundle, then edit /opt/hp/hp-snmp-agents/cma.conf and change the trapemail line to point to the recipient address:

########################################################################
# 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' systems@1234.net

If you're running Linux and don't want to install the full HP management suite, you can develop a script around the cciss_vol_status utility to query controller/disk status. Also see: Installing HP Agents on OpenFiler

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any elegant way to test an alert for a RAID array failure, other than pulling a drive out of the slot? I've got a couple ProLiant DL360 G7 servers, and HP SIM set up for monitoring. – Banjer May 15 at 13:24
Not that I know of. The Insight agents definitely work. If you can see the array status via the hpacucli utility and you know you're receiving alerts in HP SIM, I think it's fair to assume things will work. – ewwhite May 15 at 13:30
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Check out HP Insight Manager

http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim

I believe it should work with your Servers

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Check out this script, using the cli in order to check the raid status. With a little change, it worked fine for me, on a Debian setup on a Generation 8 Proliant.

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The original poster was using Windows. The script you posted does not apply. – ewwhite Dec 21 '12 at 13:27
I did not read all the comments, sorry. – plang Dec 21 '12 at 14:21
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install smartmontools. Mails you BEFORE a drive fails.

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~30% of the time. SMART is not a silver bullet. – HopelessN00b Dec 21 '12 at 20:08

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