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How to monitor HP ProLiant DL360 hardware in CentOS, optionally using Nagios

My original post for monitoring HP storage hardware in CentOS is now out of date, so I decided to write an updated post for monitoring all hardware, not just storage hardware, and for optionally including this hardware monitoring in Nagios.

This is written primarily for CentOS 6. It should be largely fine for CentOS 5 and CentOS 7 too, although one or two modifications may be needed. It should also work with some other HP ProLiant servers such as the DL380.

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How to monitor PERC RAID controllers and storage arrays on Dell PowerEdge servers with Debian and Ubuntu

If you have a Dell PowerEdge server with a RAID array then you’ll probably want to be notified when disks are misbehaving, so that you can replace the disks in a timely manner. Hopefully this article will help you to achieve this.

These tools generally rely on being able to send you email alerts otherwise their usefulness can be somewhat limited, so you should make sure you have a functioning MTA installed which can successfully send email to you from the root account. Setting up an MTA is beyond the scope of this article, so hopefully you already know how to do that (or you can check out my new post on setting up a Postfix-based mail system).

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