How to monitor disks in RAID6 on Zabbix DB server for failures?

[zabbixuser001]

Hello,

Can somone please tell me how Zabbix can monitor disks in RAID6 array for failures? We recently had a disk failure in the Zabbix DB server and did not realise it for a very long time.

Thank you

[LenR]

It depends on how the raid is created. I've always had Dell PERC controllers, so the raid is hardware defined, the OS doesn't see it.* I monitor via snmp and the OpenManage template.

So, is there a tool for your raid? Does it have a Zabbix template? If not, you would you monitor it via the command line? Turn that command into a Zabbix UserParameter and create an item and trigger. I always suggest creating those in a template for reuse :-)

* I know, there is probably a tool to access PERC raid from the OS, but using SNMP OpenManage is the same independent of host OS.