So, I have been configuring a newly installed SAM and NPM installation to monitor the systems on my network. I have had a lot of fun figuring out SNMP rules for the firewall to allow Dell's OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) to send hardware health sensors to SAM so that I can keep an eye on everything. Everything went smoothly, until yesterday. Yesterday I started adding the last network segment to SAM, which happens to be 3 R320 servers and 9 Precision R7610 rack server/workstations.
First, I had to find that the OMSA will not install on the precision R7610 in a Windows 7 environment, but Dell does provide a Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation Application (OMCIA) which provides the SNMP responses for most of the hardware health sensors. These particular systems use an integrated LSI RAID controller... which apparently SAM does not see disk-drive health on. I can see Fan status, Power Supply, Temperature, Memory, Intrusion detection, and CPU status, but not the health of the two drives in a Raid-1 configuration in each system.
Apparently, somewhere in the SNMP responses is the status of these drives, and I am hoping someone knows how to configure SAM to see these drives, preferably as a hardware health sensor, but I would settle for a Poller or anything else that I can somehow flag to be watched. I am still learning the basics of SNMP as it is not something I have dealt with in any kind of in depth manner, so I am hoping someone might have already solved this or would be willing to assist.
Any ideas?