Nagios plugin to check current server's RAID status

This plugin checks all RAID volumes (hardware and software) that can be identified.

This is supposed to be a general plugin to run via NRPE. It checks for the various RAID systems, and verifies they are working correctly.

Some checks require root permission, that is acomplished using sudo. Neccessary sudo rules (detected for your system), can be installed when check_raid is invoked with -S argument. You need to be root user and it will add required lines to the sudoers file.

Installing

Download directly from github release (with wget or curl):

wget https://raw.github.com/glensc/nagios-plugin-check_raid/master/check_raid.pl -O check_raid.pl
curl https://raw.github.com/glensc/nagios-plugin-check_raid/master/check_raid.pl > check_raid.pl
chmod +x check_raid

or download whole release tarball:

wget https://github.com/glensc/nagios-plugin-check_raid/tarball/master/check_raid.tgz
tar xzf check_raid.tgz
cd glensc-nagios-plugin-check_raid-*

setup sudo

./check_raid.pl -S

test run

./check_raid.pl

for some RAIDs there's need to install extra tools, see Supported RAIDs

Usage

./check_raid.pl [-p|--plugin <name>] [-d|--debug] [-w|--warnonly]
./check_raid.pl -S
./check_raid.pl -l

Command line arguments

-d  --debug             Show debug information
-l  --list-plugins      Lists active plugins
-p  --plugin <name(s)>  Force the use of selected plugins, comma separated
-S  --sudoers           Configure /etc/sudoers file
-w  --warnonly          Don't send CRITICAL status

Supported RAIDs

Supported RAIDs that can be checked:

• Adaptec AAC RAID via aaccli or afacli or arcconf
• AIX software RAID via lsvg
• HP/Compaq Smart Array via cciss_vol_status (hpsa supported too)
• HP Smart Array Controllers and MSA Controllers via hpacucli (see hapacucli readme)
• HP Smart Array (MSA1500) via serial line
• Linux 3ware SATA RAID via tw_cli
• Linux DPT/I2O hardware RAID controllers via /proc/scsi/dpt_i2o
• Linux GDTH hardware RAID controllers via /proc/scsi/gdth
• Linux LSI MegaRaid hardware RAID via CmdTool2
• Linux LSI MegaRaid hardware RAID via megarc
• Linux LSI MegaRaid hardware RAID via /proc/megaraid
• Linux MegaIDE hardware RAID controllers via /proc/megaide
• Linux MPT hardware RAID via mpt-status
• Linux software RAID (md) via /proc/mdstat
• LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS series via MegaCli
• LSI MegaRaid via lsraid
• Serveraid IPS via ipssend
• Solaris software RAID via metastat

You might need to install following tools depending on your raid:

• CmdTool2: CmdTool2 SAS RAID Management Utility
• arcconf: Adaptec uniform command line interface
• cciss_vol_status: http://cciss.sourceforge.net/
• megarc-scsi: LSI Logic MegaRAID Linux MegaRC utility
• mpt-status: LSI RAID controllers - http://www.red-bean.com/~mab/mpt-status.html
• tw_cli-9xxx: 3ware SATA RAID controllers - http://www.3ware.com/

Project entry in Nagios Exchange: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Hardware/Storage-Systems/RAID-Controllers/check_raid/details

Copyright

License: GPL v2

(c) 2004-2006 Steve Shipway, university of auckland, http://www.steveshipway.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=417&p=3211 Steve Shipway Thanks M Carmier for megaraid section.

(c) 2009-2012 Elan Ruusamäe glen@pld-linux.org