Description

This connector enables hardware monitoring for IBM ServeRAID disks through the IBM ServeRAID Manager Agent component of the IBM Director Agent version 5.20.x (or the 6.10.x common agent) which supports almost all IBM Netfinity and xSeries servers.

This connector is superseded by:

• FscRaid^[2]
• SunHwMon^[3]
• CpqDriveArrayNT^[4]

This connector supersedes:

• LSIMegaRaidSAS5^[5]
• LSIMegaRaidSAS^[6]
• LSIMegaCliWindows^[7]
• LSIUtilWindows^[8]

enterprise^[9] hardware^[10] ibm^[11] raid^[12] windows^[13]

Target

Typical platform: IBM xSeries

Operating system: Microsoft Windows

Prerequisites

Leverages: IBM Director Agent 5.20.x / 6.10.x

Technology and protocols: WMI/WinRM

Examples

metricshub HOSTNAME -t win -c +Director52ServeRAIDNT --wmi -u USER

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: win
        connectors: [ +Director52ServeRAIDNT ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          wmi:
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The SMI-S Compliant RAID Controller - Windows connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• Operating System is Microsoft Windows
• The WMI query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: Automatic
  • WQL Query: SELECT Dedicated FROM CIM_ComputerSystem
  • Result contains: \(^30|\)\|\(|30|\)\|\(^3|\)\|\(|3|\)\|\(^2|\)\|\(|2|\) (regex)
• The WMI query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: Automatic
  • WQL Query: SELECT __PATH FROM CIM_DiskDrive
• The WMI query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: Automatic
  • WQL Query: SELECT __PATH FROM CIM_StorageVolume

Metrics