Description

This plugin checks the alarm directory of a SUN Storagetek Common Array Manager.The CAM is a management software for SUN StorEdge 6130 and SUN StorageTek 6140 and 6540 Storage arrays. Warnings and failures of the managed systems will be written as files into the alarm directory. The check_sstcam plugin reads this directory periodically and forwards newly reported alerts to Nagios. Documentation Usually the plugin is called without any parameters:

nagios$ check_sstcam
OK - cam detected no new errors

Normally check_sstcam monitors all the storage systems known to the CAM. If you want to monitor just one specific system, use the -n option with the name of the system. If you want to monitor more than one system but not all of them, create a config file and use the -f option (if your configfile has a suffix of .cfg, it will be automatically attached).

nagios$ check_sstcam -n The-Big-Storage-2
OK - cam detected no new errors

nagios$ cat /tmp/check_sstcam.cfg
@devicenames = qw(The-Big-Storage-2 6140-primary 6140-secondary);

nagios$ check_sstcam -f /tmp/check_sstcam
OK - cam detected no new errors

If you use the -p command line parameter, the plugin alerts not only if new errors appear, but as long as errors exist in the storage system.

nagios$ check_sstcam -n The-Big-Storage-2
CRITICAL - Storage The-Big-Storage-2 (1 error):
event.ProblemEvent.REC_DRIVE_BYPASSED_CAUSE_UNKNOWN.description

nagios$ check_sstcam -n The-Big-Storage-2
CRITICAL - Storage The-Big-Storage-2 (1 error):
event.ProblemEvent.REC_DRIVE_BYPASSED_CAUSE_UNKNOWN.description

Installation

After unpacking the Archive, please run the command ./configure. Should the CAM alarm directory not be at the default location, specify it with the option --with-alarm-dir. Maybe you want to change with --with-status-dir the directory where status information is kept between the executions of check_sstcam.
Please keep in mind, check_sstcam is a "volatile service". (Except you use -p).

# the CAM software runs on host hundsglump.muc
define service {
    service_description   check_sstcam
    host_name             hundsglump.muc
    check_command         check_nrpe!check_sstcam
    is_volatile           1
    check_period          7x24
    max_check_attempts    1
    ...
}

Examples

More examples for different error conditions:

Power supply failed:

nagios$ ./check_sstcam
CRITICAL - Storage fifi1841: Power Supply Tray.30.PowerSupply.B is not receiving input power

Battery failed:

nagios$ ./check_sstcam
WARNING - Storage fifi1901: Battery Tray.85.Battery.A has transitioned to an unknown state

Controller failed:

WARNING - Storage fifi1901: the following volume(s) is/are not managed by their preferred controller Disk01_Vol05

Download

check_sstcam-1.2.tar.gz

External links

Changelog

2008-01-17 1.2 Bugfix, -p for persistency
2007-02-19 1.1 -n und -f options
2007-02-13 1.0 first published release

Copyright

Gerhard Laußer Check_sstcam is released under the GNU General Public License. GPL

Author

Gerhard Laußer (gerhard.lausser@consol.de) will gladly answer your questions.