Re: Temperature monitoring HighPoint RAID drives

On Wednesday, 2006-12-06 at 21:08:56 -0800, it wrote:

> We're using Munin to monitor our servers. I'm wondering if there's 
> support for highpoint raid card in the hddtemp_smartctl plugin? This 
> would be very useful.

The plugin doesn't know about types of harddisks, it knows about the
program smartctl.

http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/man/smartctl.8.html

LINUX:
    Use the forms "/dev/hd[a-t]" for IDE/ATA devices, and "/dev/sd[a-z]"
    for SCSI devices. For SCSI Tape Drives and Changers with TapeAlert
    support use the devices "/dev/nst*" and "/dev/sg*". For SATA disks
    accessed with libata, use "/dev/sd[a-z]" and append "-d ata". For
    disks behind 3ware controllers you may need "/dev/sd[a-z]" or
--> "/dev/twe[0-9]" or "/dev/twa[0-9]": see details below. For
--> disks behind HighPoint RocketRAID controllers you may need
--> "/dev/sd[a-z]". More general paths (such as devfs ones) may also
    be specified.

So please check that you see devices for your harddisks at /dev/sd*. If
you do, please try smartctl manually like this:

# smartctl -A /dev/sdb
smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Current Drive Temperature:     38 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        65 C
Manufactured in week 41 of year 2004
Current start stop count:      330 times
Recommended maximum start stop count:  10000 times

(This is from an Adaptec 3200S SCSI RAID controller.)

If it works, you specify the devices like this in the plugin
configuration:

[hddtemp_smartctl]
env.drives sda sdb

HTH,
Lupe Christoph
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