hardware monitoring
 

In AIX we use the errpt command to monitory the status of hardware. disk,cpu , power supplies, fans, memory etc.

I know syslogd and /vat/log messages has some information.
I was thinking I might need to write a script to trap or words like error, failure etc.

Is there an easier way to do this?
is there a build in facility already that I just dont seem to be finding?

i should add I want this for physical and vm systems.
Thanx in advance for the info.

You certainly can, but there are many Linux hardware monitoring options. The sensorsd daemon is one, but for what you're aiming for, why don't you use SNMP? You should be able to load the MIB's for the particular pieces of hardware, if they're not already going, and send the SNMP traps to your central SNMP receiver. Alerts can go out from there.

If you want to do it another way, you can use something like logwatch, to look at your syslog file, and alert when it sees a particular pattern, and it'll shovel out emails/whatever...

we dont use snmp in our environment.We use TIVOLI for monitoring the systems.

We have TIVOLI configured in AIX to look at the errpt and then open a Remedy ticked and send a page to us.

I will look into the logwatch and see what I can gather for us. We already get email from logwatch but most people ignore it. So we need a better method of reporting back.

I was also looking into smartd and smartmontools to see what they can do for us.