Dell OM Nagios plugins - CRITICAL if not all NIC ports are UP

Hi,

Unfortunately, at present, the OpenManage Plugin for Nagios-Core version 2.1 does not support monitoring only a selected group of ports.

In version 3.0 of the Nagios-Core plugin, which will be coming soon, overall NIC monitoring status will show up as "OK" if at least one of the NIC instances has its "Connection Status = UP". Ans that will make sure that the Overall Server Status will also be OK.

Thanks,

Anupam

Thank you for the confirmation.

Dear Anupam i have installed the Dell_EMC_OpenManage_Plugin_v3.0_Nagios_Core_A00.tar.gz and the plugin report a critical status as only 2 interfaces from 4 are connected. The 2 which are connected are in a NIC-Team.

Total Instances: 4, Connected Instances: 2, Down Instances: 2
#1 ConnectionStatus = Up, FQDD = NIC.Embedded.1-1-1, LinkSpeed = 1000 Mbps, FirmwareVersion = 20.8.4, ProductName = Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet BCM5720 - 18:66:DA:AE:40:DC
#2 ConnectionStatus = Up, FQDD = NIC.Embedded.2-1-1, LinkSpeed = 1000 Mbps, FirmwareVersion = 20.8.4, ProductName = Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet BCM5720 - 18:66:DA:AE:40:DD
#3 ConnectionStatus = Down, FQDD = NIC.Embedded.3-1-1, LinkSpeed = Unknown, FirmwareVersion = 20.8.4, ProductName = Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet BCM5720 - 18:66:DA:AE:40:DE
#4 ConnectionStatus = Down, FQDD = NIC.Embedded.4-1-1, LinkSpeed = Unknown, FirmwareVersion = 20.8.4, ProductName = Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet BCM5720 - 18:66:DA:AE:40:DF

How can i adjust the check to receive an ok status instead of critical.

Thanks, and best regards

Hi,

In check command, change --excludeinstance="ConnectionStatus==Up"! to --excludeinstance="ConnectionStatus==Down"! and then restart nagios service. After next polling only "Up" instances will be shown and overall service status will be shown as "OK".

More Details:

Navigate to /dell/config/objects, open corresponding host config file and change the check_command as mentioned above for "Dell EMC Server Network Device Status" service.

Restart Nagios service.

Thanks & Regards,

Rajshekar P

Thank you this fixed the problem for now. I will search in the future for another solution to compare the status for the nic. The idea is to configure a value in the monitoring for interfaces that need to be up and if the received value from the DRAC is lower then an warning should be fired.

Regards

Markus

Thank you for your reply, but that's the thing.  "FQDD=NIC.whatever"  does not work for me in this context.

We are now at OM 3.1. We still can't select network ports to monitor. Dell, please consider this as a feature request. It is common that machines with multiple network ports only use some of them. This situation is ripe for false positives and system operators ignoring warning states in Nagios.