Possible to use Powershell to detect if an HP server has a bad drive?

Question

I'm trying to use Powershell to detect certain hardware failures.

Can Powershell hook into normal HP events/logs/alerts to detect if a drive failed?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 15 '15 at 17:39

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Sure. Look up the "hpssacli" utility. You can parse the output.

But the HP management agents eliminate the need to roll-your-own. The server logs this, sends SNMP traps and can email you.

What's your ultimate goal?

answered Aug 15 '15 at 17:39

ewwhite

I am looking at some poorly managed servers and need to monitor them without altering configuration, or trap configuration. Not sure if agents are required for hpssacli or SNMP... – makerofthings7 Aug 15 '15 at 17:50
In attempting to list drive status, the closest I've gotten so far is `controller all show detail` ... haven't figured out how to dump drive status yet – makerofthings7 Aug 15 '15 at 18:04
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... got closer: `controller all show config` which offers drive status. Would be nice to get serial ... – makerofthings7 Aug 15 '15 at 18:11
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Use "ctrl all show config detail" – ewwhite Aug 15 '15 at 18:12
Also.. this gives me an XML document that I can use XPATH on to easily get the data (no parsing required) `>hpssacli.exe ctrl all diag file=c:\all2.zip` – makerofthings7 Aug 15 '15 at 18:26
Sounds like you figured it out! ServerFault is a great resource, isn't it? – ewwhite Aug 15 '15 at 18:27
This was pretty cool I'll see if I can update with a powershell version ;) – makerofthings7 Aug 15 '15 at 19:01

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