DELL servers without SNMP

[PiotrIr]

Is any way to monitor DELL hardware servers with active agent without SNMP similar way as on HP? I have some sites where can't use VPN connection so cannot use SNMP (unless somebody will tell me I'm worng).

Thank you.

[Jason]

You can do it with a proxy on site.... That could be a virtual if it's on a virtualisation environment or a hardware based proxy such as a Raspberry PI.

If the server isn't being virtualised then you can do it via SNMP calls from the host. We've done that by creating a vbscript to do the snmp and then return just the data and then add that into bottom of the agent config file as UserParameter and call it with the OID you want to look up.

Jason

[PiotrIr]

Jason,

Many thanks for your reply.

Second options sounds great (if I understood correctly Zabbix Agent talk to SNMP service using vbscript and then sends data to zabbix server). My only problem is - I don't feel strong enough to write such script and template :-( Is any ready solution which I could possibly use?

[Jason]

The attached vbs is how we do it... I can't remember how much of the original code is left in that as I think I re-wrote most of it. The coding in this isn't great and still has a lot of debugging code left in it.

It relies on net-snmp for windows being installed. You just need the base components and not the services and installed in c:\zabbix\snmp

It's not too hard to also add discovery into this if you want to do that.

[PiotrIr]

Jason, thank you for the script! This is great!

Probably this is stupid question but could you only advise how I will use Openmanage SNMP template with this script? Or maybe I do have create new script for this?

[Jason]

Attached is the template we use that used that script. You will need to create the value mappings of the standard dell error codes to use that. The mappings are below... We now use a version of that script that does discovery of disks/temperatures etc...

It's just a matter of swapping the snmpget for snmpwalk and returning the properly formatted json

DELL Controller Type 1 ⇒ SCSI
2 ⇒ PowerVault 660F
3 ⇒ PowerVault 662F
4 ⇒ IDE
5 ⇒ SATA
6 ⇒ SAS
Dell Disk State 0 ⇒ Unknown
1 ⇒ Ready
2 ⇒ Failed
3 ⇒ Online
4 ⇒ Offline
6 ⇒ Degraded
15 ⇒ Resynching
16 ⇒ Regenerating
24 ⇒ Rebuilding
26 ⇒ Formatting
35 ⇒ Initialising
36 ⇒ Background Initialisation
DellDracDiskState 1 ⇒ Unknown
2 ⇒ Ready
3 ⇒ Online
4 ⇒ Foreign
5 ⇒ Offline
6 ⇒ Blocked
7 ⇒ Failed
8 ⇒ Non-RAID
9 ⇒ Removed
DellNetworkConnectionStatus 0 ⇒ Unknown
1 ⇒ Connected
2 ⇒ Disconnected
3 ⇒ Driver Bad
4 ⇒ Driver Disabled
10 ⇒ Hardware Initialising
11 ⇒ Hardware Resetting
12 ⇒ Hardware Closing
13 ⇒ Hardware Not Ready
DELL OM Battery State 0 ⇒ Unknown
1 ⇒ OK
2 ⇒ Failed
6 ⇒ Degraded
7 ⇒ Reconditioning
9 ⇒ High
10 ⇒ Low
12 ⇒ Charging
21 ⇒ Missing
36 ⇒ Learning
Dell Open Manage System Status 1 ⇒ Other
2 ⇒ Unknown
3 ⇒ OK
4 ⇒ NonCritical
5 ⇒ Critical
6 ⇒ NonRecoverable
DellPowerState 1 ⇒ Other
2 ⇒ Unknown
3 ⇒ Off
4 ⇒ On
Dell PSU State Settings 1 ⇒ Unknown
2 ⇒ Online (state disabled)
4 ⇒ not Ready
8 ⇒ Fan Failure
10 ⇒ Online and Fan Failure
16 ⇒ On
242 ⇒ Online and OK
DellRaidLevel 1 ⇒ Not known
2 ⇒ RAID-0
3 ⇒ RAID-1
4 ⇒ RAID-5
5 ⇒ RAID-6
6 ⇒ RAID-10
7 ⇒ RAID-50
8 ⇒ RAID-60
9 ⇒ Concatenated RAID 1
10 ⇒ Concatenated RAID 5
DellRaidVolumeState 1 ⇒ Unknown
2 ⇒ Online
3 ⇒ Failed
4 ⇒ Degraded
Dell_PSU_SensorState 1 ⇒ Presence Detected
2 ⇒ PS Failure
4 ⇒ Predictuve Failure
8 ⇒ PS AC lost
16 ⇒ AC lost or out of range
32 ⇒ AC out of range but still present

[PiotrIr]

Jason,

Once again, thank you very much!

[Jason]

You'll need this line in your config file...

UserParameter=SNMPread[*],cscript.exe /nologo c:\zabbix\SNMPread.vbs $1 $2 $3 $4 $5

[Raged23]

Monitoring with Active agent.

Thanks Jason for this information.
If I'm reading this correctly this only works if the machine is not virtualized?
I've been trying to use powershell scripts with omreport to return the needed information, but I am having trouble parsing the information.
Your SNMP solutions seems better, but the majority of are servers are VM's in many different locations. Proxies are not a good solution for us.

[Jason]

What are the hosts? If they have iDrac 7 then you'll be able to directly monitor the hosts from SNMP, including the storage. You can do that from the virtuals with a little bit of tweaking of the above scripts and can even do discovery of temperatures, memory, fans and storage to make life easier.

If you've a virtual environment then a tiny linux virtual running a proxy makes a great addition. It will use up 2-4GB (depending how generous you are on creating disks) disk space on your storage and 512MB of RAM (possibly even less).

If space on your storage platform is at a premium then a zabbix proxy will run nicely off a Raspberry Pi and it can be powered off one of the servers USB ports and just needs a network connection.

[guest55]

Hi all! I try use this template for monitoring DELL thru SNMP. I setup SNMP service, set community and other settings, install latest version Open Manage Administrator. But monitroing thru SNMP not work - any ideas of what it can be?

My server model is PowerEdge R210 II
OS Windows Server 2008 R2

[Jason]

You need to have enabled the windows SNMP service and added public community to it.