I have written a perl script that parses the output from bioctl and returns it in a format that Nagios can use.
check_bioctl is avaliable here: http://openbsd.somedomain.net/nagios/check_bioctl-1.3.tar.gz It is useful to me, and so I thought it might be useful to someone else. I wrote this on OpenBSD 3.9 and tested on Dell PERC 3/DC controllers using the ami driver. It should work just fine on other versions of OpenBSD as well as with other cards and drivers. If you do run into trouble, send me the output from bioctl on the system you are having trouble with and I can try to help. Patches to fix problems would be even better. One thing I ran into is that bioctl needs to run as root to get access to /dev/bio, even for read only access. Is there a way to query bioctl without needing root? Also, in biovar.h, both a raid volume and a disk can be "Offline". However, I am not sure what that means. Currently it is a WARNING, but I don't know what status it should be set to. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/biovar.h?rev=1.25&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup If anyone knows what the "Offline" status means, I would sure like to know. An additional useful feature is that you can specify multiple devices to check in a single check /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_bioctl -d ami0 -d ami1 Output is similar to below, except with NAGIOS_OUTPUT set to 1 in the source (as it usually is) all output is on a single line separated with <br> and it hides any devices that are OK because Nagios has a limit on the length of a response. CRITICAL (1): ami0 sd1 Degraded WARNING (1): ami0 0:8.0 Rebuild <QUANTUM ATLAS10K2-TY184JDA40> OK (7): ami0 sd0 Online ami0 0:0.0 Online <IBM DMVS09M 0220> ami0 0:1.0 Online <IBM DRVS09D 0140> ami0 0:3.0 Online <QUANTUM ATLAS10K2-TY184JDA40> ami0 0:4.0 Online <QUANTUM ATLAS10K2-TY184JDA40> ami0 0:5.0 Online <QUANTUM ATLAS10K2-TY184JDA40> ami0 0:2.0 Hot spare <IBM DRVS09D 0140> I currently configure it something like this: $ grep check_bioctl /etc/sudoers /etc/nrpe.cfg /etc/sudoers:_nrpe ALL = NOPASSWD:/usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_bioctl -d ami0 /etc/nrpe.cfg:command[check_bioctl]=/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_bioctl -d ami0 Also available is check_hw_sensors for checking of sysctl hw.sensors from Nagios. http://openbsd.somedomain.net/nagios/ l8rZ, -- andrew - ICQ# 253198 - JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BOFH excuse of the day: YOU HAVE AN I/O ERROR -> Incompetent Operator error
