Alert on disk failure

What type of SAN do you have? If it is Dell EqualLogic - I can help. If it is not - I can still show you what I did with EqualLogic and you can work out analogical solution for your SAN as well

hi there,

I need a generic alert that will work on all our arrays.

Alex Slv:

   Any chance that you could share your general solution?  It may prove helpful to Deltona and possibly other customers.

Deltona:

   If you think that whatever Alex proposes doesn't "fit" with your environment, we can schedule a call to discuss further details about failed disk alerting.

Thanks to you both in advance,

--KMSigma

If you need an easy and generic solution - Storage Manager is the best way to go:

http://www.solarwinds.com/storage-manager.aspx?

If you want to monitor your SAN via SAM - then SNMP monitor will do this, however you will need to build a template, which will monitor a specific OID, which in turn will depends on hardware type... hence my question - what hardware do you use? I have a template for Dell EqualLogic and instructions how to setup.

OK, I will publish a post in the beginning of next week.. off to Wembley for England vs Peru friendly game

Hi,

I wish to monitor all disk related events using the storage tool, Storage Manager. The arrays in use vary between IBM, LSI, EMC, NEC, NetApp, SUN etc.

No equallogic array i'm afraid. I'd greatly appreciate it if I could get an official guide from SolarWinds for this.

Deltona - we can setup a call to go over the details.

Thanks,

--KMSigma

Hi KMSigma,

Thanks for the offer but I don't think that is necessary as this is a relatively simple request.

I wish to get an alert when a disk operational status is not OK.

Here's an example of the what happens (doesn't happen) when a disk status is not OK.

Bump.

Can I/We please get an official SolarWinds kb article for this posted here: http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/ please?

I'm in the process of researching, testing, and then drafting up a "How-To."  Please stay posted for the update.