Dell Omsa Zabbix monitoring

This repository includes script, config and zabbix template for monitoring different components and information from a dell server running omsa on linux.

Tested with: OMSA: 8.1.0 Zabbix: 4.0.0

OMSA

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator tools allows you to query and configure physical components on the server.

https://www.dell.com/support/article/yu/en/yudhs1/sln312492/openmanage-server-administrator-omsa?lang=en

Zabbix

Zabbix is an open source monitoring solution

https://www.zabbix.com/

What

Script and template in this repository will monitor the most important components and information from the server. It won't show every little detail provided by omsa. Below is a list of provided information:

Discovered items:

Virtual disks and their controller
Physical disks and their controller
Fans with their index number
PSU's with their index number
Temperature sensors
RAM with their index number

Monitored items and triggers:

Individual physical disks and their status Trigger: physical disk not online or predictive failure is true
Individual virtual disk RAID type/size and status Trigger: virtual disk status is not ok
Individual fans and their status and RPM Trigger: fan status not ok
Individual PSU's and their status Trigger: PSU status not ok
Individual temperature sensors and their value
Individual RAM modules and their status Trigger: RAM status not ok
Server model
Server service tag
Server BIOS version
Server iDRAC version
Server general health status Trigger: if any of the status indicators is not ok

This is all based on what i find useful. If you think something important is missing, please make a pull request or suggestion to make it even better.

Installation

Start up by installing dell omsa if you don't have it already. Follow instructions in: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/omsa.html
Clone this repository to your zabbix-agent path

git clone https://github.com/ronivay/zabbix-dell-omsa /etc/zabbix/dell-omsa

Edit your zabbix agent configuration and add

Include=/etc/zabbix/dell-omsa/omsa.conf

Restart zabbix-agent
Add sudo permissions for zabbix-agent to run omsa.sh script

visudo

add line:
zabbix ALL=(ALL)  NOPASSWD: /etc/zabbix/dell-omsa/omsa.sh

Zabbix agent part is now done, we can move to our zabbix-server

Download the dell-omsa-template.xml file from this repository to your local machine and open your zabbix-server WebUI.
Navigate to configure -> templates -> import
Choose the .xml file and hit import

Now we should have a new template called Template OMSA which we can add to our host.

Many of the items are checked once in 24hours since they are something that won't really change. Failing and changing items are checked more frequently, but not more often than 5minutes. Feel free to change these values if you wish.

Tips