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Server Blade Chassis MIB Walks Needed - Inquire Within

aLTeReGo over 11 years ago

The SAM team is in the investigatory phase of hardware heath monitoring of server blade chassis from HP, Dell, and IBM. But we need the communities help. There are countless different chassis configurations between these different vendors and models that we could never hope to build and test them all without your help.

We're currently seeking volunteers willing to perform SNMP MIB walks against their HP, Dell, and IBM blade chassis. These MIB walks will be used exclusively to test and ensure any hardware monitoring features developed will work properly with these chassis.

If you'd like to see Hardware Health Monitoring for your server blade chassis in a future release of SAM, then we strongly encourage your participation.

What we need: An SNMP MIB walk using the tool provided from your blade chassis. The tool is fairly simple and straightforward to use. Enter the IP address of the Server running the agent as well as the community string and click "scan".

Alternate method: If you'd prefer to use NET-SNMP instead of the tool provided above you can download and install NET-SNMP from http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/

• Win32 binaries are available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/net-snmp/files/net-snmp%20binaries/5.5-binaries/net-snmp-5.5.0-1.x86.exe/download

• Run this command from “installation directory/bin/”: snmpwalk -v 2c -c public -O netU 127.0.0.1 1 > output.txt
(change the IP address and community string accordingly, and don’t forget there is 1 after IP address. It means it will scan whole SNMP tree)

What Now: Both methods will generate a single file per blade chassis containing a complete MIB walk of the device. We recommend naming this file the make and model of the device that was scanned. For example "DELL_M1000.txt".

These files can then be posted here to this thread or emailed to me directly at the email address below.

The more people who participate, and the more blade chassis we receive MIB Walks for, the more likely we'll be able to incorporate this as a feature into a future release. We encourage everyone to participate and appreciate your willingness to help.

[Standard obligatory Legal Disclaimer Stuff]

This is not a commitment to a timeframe or delivery of any of the features discussed above. This post is intended solely as an opportunity for community members interested in participating to aid and assist SolarWinds in gathering research data.

0 FormerMember over 11 years ago

Cheers!
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0 aLTeReGo over 11 years ago in reply to FormerMember

Thanks travis_vanholland! Others reading this thread are encouraged to keep sending their MIB walks. Right now we've received a fair number of Dell M1000e Chassis MIB walks from customers, but none for HP or IBM. If you have an HP or IBM Blade Chassis and would like to see SAM hardware health monitor of your blade chassis in a future release please consider posting or emailing me your MIB walks.
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0 timcasey over 11 years ago in reply to aLTeReGo

Hi alterego, I ran into you at Sydney and I do like some of the things you've done with SAM.
Rather than do a MIB Walk I've attached an export of the undp's that I use to monitor these enclosures in our environment so I'm not sure if this is a reasonable option to identify some of the OIDs to look at. We've got about 60 odd enclosures (mostly HP but quite a few IBMs as well) and these work pretty well with the views I've set up and also alerting and reporting (it's nice to get the enclosures all showing in a nice report in columns so comaprisons can be made, and also the reports can be used like a dashboard as well).
The OIDs include the mgmt modules, server blades, power supplies, fans and installed switches (SAN/Ethernet) in varying levels of detail depending on what I've been able to locate. I'm still working on the Virtual Connect modules and don't have much there as yet nor much time to work on it.
Let me know if you need it in any other format.
Cheers
Tim

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0 bluefunelemental over 11 years ago

c7000 blade server chassis
would be great to have a resource for enclosure power, fans, and blades health despite being in different tables :-(
enclosure information and overall health should be an easy one
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0 sg2vp over 11 years ago

Here's another c7000 chassis
I'm the most interested in viewing the performance metrics of the Flex-10 Virtual Connect modules. I'd love to see the throughput on the midplane and backplane to see the performance metrics of those devices to monitor blade-to-blade internal communications as well as how a blade is communicating past the chassis.
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0 bluefunelemental over 11 years ago in reply to sg2vp

Could you do this today with charts for the Dx vs Xx ports?
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0 rjnicholson over 11 years ago

I will be grabbing a MIB walk from our C7000 for you guys as well. I know there are a couple on here, but not sure if the MIB is different between GEN models, so I will attach a C7000 Gen1 and Gen8 MIB.
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0 cgehring1 over 11 years ago

Any update on having the output of this included in the product? I see lots of folks clamoring for chassis pollers. I'm waiting on something for the Dell M1000e.

Thanks,
Chris
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0 aLTeReGo over 11 years ago in reply to cgehring1

It's still something we're investigating. Nothing concrete yet, but we'll keep the forums posted.
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0 nmss over 11 years ago

C7000 enclosure.
Any updates on this? It works for all of our other HP Hardware, just not complete for enclosures.
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