[Nagiosplug-help] Monitor Compaq Hardware / Compaq Insight Manager?

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

On 09/01/07 07:16 PM, s. d. rose wrote:
> Hello all.
>   Being reasonably new to MRTG, I have recently setup an environment where I 
> downloaded and compiled version 2.6 onto a vmware player of Fedora Core 5. 
> ( I downloaded from VMWare's site the player appliance download of 
> FC5&Nagios <version 2.3> and then downloaded & compiled 2.6).
> 
>   I setup NSClient on my WinXP notebook, and also MRTGEXT in SYS:System on 
> my Netware server.  I setup per the documentation + web help a configuration 
> to monitor the local Linux OS usercount + diskspace under the VM, the 
> Diskspace under the NSClient for WinXP, plus number of connections+ disk 
> free in SYS and VOL1 for Netware.  This works and I'm happy.
> 
>   My Problem is with monitoring Compaq & HP Hardware via Compaq insight 
> manager on WinXP OS.  I'm not sure what's needed, or what plug-ins do what. 
> I want to monitor all relevent hardware failures, such as RAID-5 arrays, 
> external (SCSI) drive arrays, motherboard, R-ILO, plus CPU%, drive space 
> available, etc.
> 
>   My questions thus far are:  Is this monitoring done via SNMP?  IS this 
> done via a special plugin to Nagios, generic SNMP, or both?
> 
>   In a situation like this, is NSClient required for the hardware 
> monitoring?  Will this monitor Compaq hardware running Linux?
> 
>   I've read it's possible, but I don't know where to start or what to 
> download.
> 
> All help & advice is greatly appreciated.
> 

I think monitoring for Insight Manager can be done with SNMP. There
might be a plugin on http://www.nagiosexchange.org/ for that purpose. If
you can't find one, your best luck would be to write one in Perl.

Thomas