We have several physical systems and many vmware systems.

Is there any built in tools or any recommended tools to load that will assist us with monitoring for failed hardware such as but not limited to :
disk failures
cpu or memory issues
fan issues (if physical)
Some more variable to add to the list for DB monitoring reasons :
IOStat, IO service time (IOS).
etc.

I should mention this is for Rhel 5 and 6 and eventually 7.

We would ultimately like to interface this with Tivoli tools so it can open an automated ticket using Remedy software.

I am not aware of any built-in tool available in Red Hat which could do this as the information that you are looking for is part of hardware diagnostic. Information might be there in logs but you can't rely on that completely.

I think this question is best posed to hardware vendors instead of Red Hat. Usually hardware vendors do have agent running on their machine to check if there is something wrong with the hardware.

Nagios and BMC Petrol are there but I haven't seen them doing hardware level monitoring. They are good for keeping tab on utilization of different resource but monitoring their health, I haven't seen.

Well I did come across this in my search of the RH site.
https://access.redhat.com/documentat...ing_Tools.html


They do have some monitoring.
I guess SNMP traps from the bios and a RSA/IMM will be my best bet.

As I said earlier I don't think those tools can perform check / detect hardware failures. From your initial post it doesn't appear that you are looking for usage monitoring. It appears that you are looking for hardware monitoring.

That is an additional piece of hardware. I would still suggest to check with your hardware vendor on the best way to proceed.

Yes we already have the rsa/imm on the systems. This is what IBM recommended. Only problem is we have mixed hdw now so that wont work for all.

No silver bullet this time.

If you have that in-house then no issues and if IBM is the vendor then yes RSA/IMM are from them. Yeah with mixed hardware it is a bit difficult to integrate in terms of ticketing system. The only option is to find out a way how you can integrate different agents from different vendor to send failure report to generate a ticket.

Nagios and Zabbix are actively used in the layered RH products, currently. They do not host, write, offer, or promote any platform for hardware monitoring or reporting.

EDAC and MCE - CPU and Memory issue.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/edac.txt

http://www.mcelog.org/

Basic logging tools, usually I'd suggest checking with the hardware vendor as they'll have higher level tools like OpenManage etc.