add support for areca controllers

[calestyo]

Hey Elan.

I'd like to see support for Areca controllers in check_raid.

If necessary, I can try to write some patches, but I'm really a bad Perl programmer (saying I'd hate it wouldn't come close to the truth ;-) )... so if it's easy for you,... than fine.

Official documentation for the tools (and the tools themselves can be found at:
http://www.areca.us/support/download/RaidCards/Documents/Manual_Spec/CLIManual.zip
http://www.areca.us/support/s_linux/cli/i386/cli32.zip
http://www.areca.us/support/s_linux/cli/x86_64/cli64.zip

There's already a bunch of nagios plugins for areca out there, including:
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Hardware/Storage-Systems/RAID-Controllers/check_areca/details
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Operating-Systems/Linux/check-areca/details
https://gist.github.com/46749
https://github.com/erinn/check_areca

Perhaps these can be just integrated,.. but I haven't checked which of them is best (i.e. gives the most information).

Cheers,
Chris.

[glensc]

check_cli64 is in there, so it's not just "not supported" state

[glensc]

initial commit to it 7c206d5

[calestyo]

Argl.... someone here has renamed our (already existing) local installation of that tool to areca_cli64 ... and I blindly didn't notice that support was already in.

Sorry for the noise.

[calestyo]

Let me reopen this shortly.

I just saw that the current support, only looks for cli64, the same tool is however available as 32bit compiled binary, "cli32".

Perhaps that should be added.

Cheers,
Chris.

[glensc]

you should be slowing down your actions, you're quite volume :D

i added cli32 support already in this issue:

#10 (reference)

[glensc]

two more program names added, so in total the check list is:

• areca-cli
• areca_cli64
• areca_cli32
• cli64
• cli32

[calestyo]

Thanks for adding cli32.

But regarding:
areca-cli
areca_cli64
areca_cli32
have you seen them somewhere officially?

If you just added them because of my comment above... that name (areca_cli64) was really just made by one of our local guys, and I haven't found it so far in any of the upstream packages.

OTOH, it probably doesn't harm to keep them,... so I don't care much.

Regarding my number of tickets ... ;-)
I guess it's obvious that I just wanna improve things.... I like that you do the stuff really fast, but that's obviously not a must.
I usually forget things I spot quite quickly, which is why I add bugs as soon as I notice something, to have some way to keep track of ideas or issues.
Just let them open for the record, if you don't have time at hand! :)

[glensc]

areca-cli is used by me, areca_cli{64,32} used by you, so not officially, but as you pointed out, it won't hurt. in fact i don't know any other distro than mine (pld linux) that repackages binary blobs