check_3ware_raid

How to use

1 to use this script you have to install firt tw_cli. You can find the source here : http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp just follow the instructions to compile and deploy it 2 then you just have to run the following command : $ ./check_3ware-raid.pl --help

If you need to use this script with NRPE you just have to do the following steps :

1 allow your user to run the script with the sudo rights. Just add something like that in your /etc/sudoers (use visudo) : nagios ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: //check_3ware-raid.pl 2 then just add this kind of line in your NRPE config file : command[check_3ware]=/usr/bin/sudo //check_3ware-raid.pl 3 don't forget to restart your NRPE daemon

Examples :

./check_3ware-raid.pl -P /usr/sbin/tw_cli -a unit_check -p -v -m

DEBUG : action : unit_check, path-tw_cli : /usr/sbin/tw_cli
DEBUG : check if /usr/sbin/tw_cli exists and is executable
DEBUG : warning threshold : 1, critical threshold : 2
DEBUG : controller :
DEBUG : action = unit_check
DEBUG : disk u0/type RAID-1/status OK
DEBUG : disk u1/type RAID-1/status OK
DEBUG : disk u2/type SPARE/status OK
CHECK 3ware RAID - unit_check - OK - 3 unit(s) detected as OK - (u0,RAID-1,OK) (u1,RAID-1,OK) (u2,SPARE,OK) | unitOK=3 unitREBUILD=0 unitNOK=0

Help :

./check_3ware-raid.pl --help

check_3ware-raid.pl version 0.2 by Erwan Labynocle Ben Souiden

This plugin checks state of your physical disks and logical units of a 3ware RAID card.

Usage: check_3ware-raid.pl [-a unit_check|disk_check|all] [-p] [-D "CHECK 3ware RAID - "] [-v] [-m] [-c 2] [-w 1] [-C /c1]

Options:
-h, --help
    Print detailed help screen
-V, --version
    Print version information
-D, --display=STRING
    to modify the output display...
    default is "CHECK 3ware RAID - "
-P, --path-tw_cli=STRING
    specify the path to the tw_cli binary
    default value is /usr/sbin/tw_cli
-a, --action=STRING
    specify the action : unit_check|disk_check
    default is disk_check
    disk_check : display state of all physical disks
    unit_check : display state of all logical unit
    all        : check both disks and units
-C, --controller=STRING
    allow you to specify only one controller to check
    the default behavior is to check each time every controller
-c, --critical=INT
    specify a critical threshold for the number of disks in a non-OK state.
    default is 2
    only for the disk_check action
-w, --warning=INT
    specify a warning threshold for the number of disks in a non-OK state.
    default is 1
    only for the disk_check action
-m, --more
    Print a longer output. By default, the output is not complet because
    Nagios may truncate it. This option is just for you
-p, --perfdata
    If you want to activate the perfdata output
-v, --verbose

    Show details for command-line debugging (Nagios may truncate the output)

Send email to erwan@aleikoum.net if you have questions regarding use of this software. To submit patches or suggest improvements, send email to erwan@aleikoum.net

This plugin has been created by Erwan Labynocle Ben Souiden

Hope you will enjoy it ;)

Special thank

Just want to thank Eric Schultz to help me to improve this little script