A heads up to all you Debian people that run on HP. Etch downloads are now available for all the typical HP hardware and configuration goodies.
Hpacucli on AMD64 requires you to force arch.
A big hats off to HP. I’ve been really impressed with their server hardware, and their support of Debian Linux.
I still have nightmares about being in Dell centric environments.
For the server that this blog runs on, I wrote a quick little hardware health script to run on a daily cron. Of course Hpasm comes with snmp mib capabilities out of the box, but in a single server on colo, I just want to keep it simple. In my day job, with 4000+ servers, daily cron status e-mails would require a full time employee just to read the e-mail..
#!/bin/bash
echo "Daily System Check"
date
echo "Disks"
/usr/sbin/hpacucli controller slot=0 physicaldrive all show
echo "Power"
/sbin/hpasmcli -s "show powersupply"
echo "Event Log"
/sbin/hpasmcli -s "show iml"
echo "Temps"
hpasmcli -s "show temp"
echo "Dimms"
hpasmcli -s "show dimm"
With that in cron_Daily, I get a nice picture at my systems status.
Daily System Check
Fri Jul 27 01:26:19 EDT 2007
Disks
Smart Array P400i in Slot 0
array A
physicaldrive 1I:1:1 (port 1I:box 1:bay 1, SAS, 72 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 1I:1:2 (port 1I:box 1:bay 2, SAS, 72 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 1I:1:3 (port 1I:box 1:bay 3, SAS, 72 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 1I:1:4 (port 1I:box 1:bay 4, SAS, 72 GB, OK)
Power
Power supply #1
Present : Yes
Redundant: Yes
Condition: Ok
Hotplug : Supported
Power supply #2
Present : Yes
Redundant: Yes
Condition: Ok
Hotplug : Supported
Event Log
The IML Log is empty.
Temps
Sensor Location Temp Threshold
------ -------- ---- ---------
#0 SYSTEM_BD - -
#1 AMBIENT 20C/68F 38C/100F
#2 CPU#1 16C/60F 75C/167F
#3 CPU#2 0C/0F 75C/167F
#4 I/O_ZONE 37C/98F 65C/149F
#5 I/O_ZONE 32C/89F 65C/149F
#6 POWER_SUPPLY_BAY 29C/84F 65C/149F
Dimms
DIMM Configuration
------------------
Cartridge #: 0
Module #: 1
Present: Yes
Form Factor: 9h
Memory Type: 13h
Size: 1024 MB
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: Ok
Cartridge #: 0
Module #: 2
Present: Yes
Form Factor: 9h
Memory Type: 13h
Size: 1024 MB
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: Ok
Cartridge #: 0
Module #: 3
Present: Yes
Form Factor: 9h
Memory Type: 13h
Size: 1024 MB
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: Ok
Cartridge #: 0
Module #: 4
Present: Yes
Form Factor: 9h
Memory Type: 13h
Size: 1024 MB
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: Ok