Oracle/Sun Solaris - RAID Disks (raidctl)

Description

This connector discovers and monitors physical disks and logical disks behind a physical RAID controller.

hardware raid storage sun

Enterprise Connector

This connector requires the Enterprise edition of MetricsHub.

Superseded Connector

This connector is superseded by:

• CpqDriveArrayNT
• CpqFCADriveArray
• CpqIDEDriveArray
• CpqSCSIDriveArray

Target

Typical platform: Sun/Oracle Servers

Operating system: Oracle Solaris

Prerequisites

Leverages: Sun Solaris system commands (raidctl)

Technology and protocols: Commands

This connector requires advanced privileges on the managed host for the command below:

• /usr/sbin/raidctl

This connector therefore needs to run as root or you need to configure a privilege-escalation mechanism like sudo on the managed host to allow the monitoring account to run the command listed above.

Sample of /etc/sudoers to allow the above command to be run as root by the metricshub account:

metricshub ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/raidctl

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t solaris -c +SunRaidctl --ssh -u USER --sudo-command-list /usr/sbin/raidctl

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: solaris
        connectors: [ +SunRaidctl ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          ssh:
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt
            useSudo: true
            useSudoCommands: [ "/usr/sbin/raidctl" ]

Connector Activation Criteria

The Oracle/Sun Solaris - RAID Disks (raidctl) connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The device type must be one of: SunOS, Solaris
• The command below succeeds on the monitored host:
  • Command: /usr/sbin/raidctl -S
  • Output contains: ^[0-9] (regex)

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
disk_controller	hw.status{hw.type="disk_controller", state="present"}	controller_number firmware_version hw.parent.type id model name
logical_disk	hw.logical_disk.limit hw.status{hw.type="logical_disk", state="degraded|failed|ok"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name raid_level
physical_disk	hw.physical_disk.size hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name