HP P2000 G3 monitoring (Zabbix 2.0)

[i.kulagin]

I've got this error in zabbix-server.log:

item [msa2000:hp-msa.pl["{HOST.DNS1}","stats"]] became not supported: Received value [] is not suitable for value type [Numeric (unsigned)] and data type [Decimal]

But the /var/tmp/zabbixSenderHPP2000_* file is not empty and contains some usefull infomation. Is it possible that the problem with a perl parser? The script produced an error and asked about missing /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini. I have copied sample ParserDetails.ini from /etc/perl/XML/SAX/. Now it looks like this:

[XML::SAX::PurePerl]
http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces = 1


[XML::SAX::Expat]
http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces = 1
http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities = 1
http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities = 1

Is it alright?
Does anyone have any other suggestions about how to solve the problem?
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Ubuntu 12.04, zabbix 2.0.1.

[meduzalt]

Having the same error here on a self compiled 2.0 install running debian squeeze and on msa g2 2312i

I have the same Debian Squeeze
Maybe it is related with Debian and Perl v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
In some Forums it was noticed that after Perl upgraded from <5.10 to 5.10 appeared such error:

Not a HASH reference at

as alternative need test with another Perl version, but dont know how. Need Googling.

[thesubmitter]

Having the same error here on a self compiled 2.0 install running debian squeeze and on msa g2 2312i

Hello,

I see it is good solution to monitor HP MSA, but I have problem with perl script.
I have Zabbix 2.0.0 server, and want to monitor MSA 2324sa

I've got error when execute:

./hp-msa.pl FQDN stats 
Not a HASH reference at ./hp-msa.pl line 60

or

./hp-msa.pl FQDN
Not a HASH reference at ./hp-msa.pl line 33

I dont understant what is wrong and cant find reference.
Thanks

[meduzalt]

Hello,

I see it is good solution to monitor HP MSA, but I have problem with perl script.
I have Zabbix 2.0.0 server, and want to monitor MSA 2324sa

I've got error when execute:

./hp-msa.pl FQDN stats 
Not a HASH reference at ./hp-msa.pl line 60

or

./hp-msa.pl FQDN
Not a HASH reference at ./hp-msa.pl line 33

I dont understant what is wrong and cant find reference.
Thanks

[scr512]

Under 30 seconds to be sure

time ./hp-msa.pl jckp2k-1a.rac.acl 

real	0m5.440s
user	0m0.634s
sys	0m0.038s

time ./hp-msa.pl jckp2k-1a.rac.acl stats
0

real	0m7.793s
user	0m0.496s
sys	0m0.037s

Maybe I should be using a newer version of Zabbix 2?

/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_server --version

Zabbix server v2.0.0 (revision 27675) (21 May 2012)
Compilation time: Jul 16 2012 08:39:11

I think I got this working... being the idiot that I am... I failed to notice that my Zabbix server and agentd configuration files were located in /usr/local/etc rather than /etc/zabbix

Once I copied my configuration files over proper things now appear to be working.

[scr512]

How long do scripts take to execute:

time ./hp-msa.pl <HOSTNAME>
time ./hp-msa.pl <HOSTNAME> stats

Under 30 seconds to be sure

time ./hp-msa.pl jckp2k-1a.rac.acl 

real	0m5.440s
user	0m0.634s
sys	0m0.038s

time ./hp-msa.pl jckp2k-1a.rac.acl stats
0

real	0m7.793s
user	0m0.496s
sys	0m0.037s

Maybe I should be using a newer version of Zabbix 2?

/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_server --version

Zabbix server v2.0.0 (revision 27675) (21 May 2012)
Compilation time: Jul 16 2012 08:39:11

[Emir Imamagic]

Yes, this is set in server config as well... no joy.

How long do scripts take to execute:

time ./hp-msa.pl <HOSTNAME>
time ./hp-msa.pl <HOSTNAME> stats

[scr512]

You need to put this variable to Zabbix server config.

Cheers

Yes, this is set in server config as well... no joy.

[Emir Imamagic]

Ok, I have that now setup. I've also configured my zabbix_agentd.conf to have a Timeout=30.

You need to put this variable to Zabbix server config.

Cheers

[scr512]

You need to configure add at least one Agent interface and put IP and DNS there. Afterwards you can remove this SNMP interface.

Ok, I have that now setup. I've also configured my zabbix_agentd.conf to have a Timeout=30.

cat /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf | grep Timeout
### Option: Timeout
#	Spend no more than Timeout seconds on processing
Timeout=30

So, I seem to be getting a little further along. I am now running into this

1328:20120718:164423.314 item [jckp2k-1a.rac.acl:hp-msa.pl["{HOST.DNS1}","stats"]] became not supported: timeout while executing a shell script
1328:20120718:164443.325 item [jckp2k-1a.rac.acl:hp-msa.pl["{HOST.CONN}"]] became not supported: timeout while executing a shell script
1328:20120718:164528.345 item [jckp2k-1b.rac.acl:hp-msa.pl["{HOST.DNS1}","stats"]] became not supported: timeout while executing a shell script
1326:20120718:164553.362 item [jckp2k-1b.rac.acl:hp-msa.pl["{HOST.CONN}"]] became not supported: timeout while executing a shell script

[Emir Imamagic]

Hmm I seem to be going crazy

I can definitely connect to the storage management interface from my Zabbix box using it's DNS name (SSH)

Yet I am still getting le crazy log messages complaining about "*UNKNOWN*". I'll do some more Googling.


So, does this look sane to you?

You need to configure add at least one Agent interface and put IP and DNS there. Afterwards you can remove this SNMP interface.

[scr512]

The tricky part is that I used DNS name for stats. You have to make sure that:
1. DNS attribute is properly defined in "Agent interfaces"
2. DNS can be used to access storage controller and
3. DNS is equivalent to the "Host name" attribute of the host.

Hmm I seem to be going crazy

I can definitely connect to the storage management interface from my Zabbix box using it's DNS name (SSH)

Yet I am still getting le crazy log messages complaining about "*UNKNOWN*". I'll do some more Googling.


So, does this look sane to you?

[Emir Imamagic]

So actually the script looks to be working just fine, at least when I run it interactively from CLI I can see a bunch of useful data I would love to ingest.

So, looking at the zabbix_server.log it is obvious that I am doing something wrong in my host configuration.

File does not exist: 500 Can't connect to *UNKNOWN*:443 (Bad hostname '*UNKNOWN*')
 at /usr/local/share/zabbix/externalscripts/hp-msa.pl line 120

I'll poke around and see what I am doing. I will note that when I configured the hosts, I used an SNMP interface, not an agent interface. I do have an IP and DNS name set on the SNMP interface.

The tricky part is that I used DNS name for stats. You have to make sure that:
1. DNS attribute is properly defined in "Agent interfaces"
2. DNS can be used to access storage controller and
3. DNS is equivalent to the "Host name" attribute of the host.

[scr512]

Hello,

I have exactly the same version so it should work fine.

Is LLD working? Did you get all the controllers, vdisks and volumes configured in Zabbix? Script will report 0 if sending of at least a single value fails.

Unfortunately I didn't have time to do decent debugging so I suggest commenting line:

die "Can not remove file $sendFile!" unless(unlink ($sendFile));

After executing

hp-msa.pl FQDN stats

check content of file "/var/tmp/zabbixSenderHPP2000".

Also check Zabbix server logs for errors.

So actually the script looks to be working just fine, at least when I run it interactively from CLI I can see a bunch of useful data I would love to ingest.

So, looking at the zabbix_server.log it is obvious that I am doing something wrong in my host configuration.

File does not exist: 500 Can't connect to *UNKNOWN*:443 (Bad hostname '*UNKNOWN*')
 at /usr/local/share/zabbix/externalscripts/hp-msa.pl line 120

I'll poke around and see what I am doing. I will note that when I configured the hosts, I used an SNMP interface, not an agent interface. I do have an IP and DNS name set on the SNMP interface.

[Emir Imamagic]

Unfortunately I don't have such storage here. Best way to find out is to give it a try

Would this work for a g2 msa2312i?