Monitoring Oracle VCA with Hardware Sentry

Component:
Oracle Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch

Hardware Type:
Network

Protocol:
SNMP

Connectors:
MIB-2 Standard SNMP Agent
Sun/Oracle ILOM (SNMP)
Sun/Oracle InfiniBand DCS Switch (Ports)

Component:
Oracle ES1-24 Switch

Hardware Type:
Network

Protocol:
SNMP

Connectors:
MIB-2 Standard SNMP Agent
Sun/Oracle ILOM

Notes:
These switches are used to connect the various ILOMs of the VCA.
SNMP v1 needs to be enabled on the switch.

Component:
Management / Compute Node
(in-band monitoring using ipmitool option)

Hardware Type:
Linux

Protocol:
CLI

Connectors:
IPMI
Linux - Network

Notes:
Ipmitool requires sudo / root access to be configured.

Component:
Management / Compute Node
(out-of-band monitoring using SNMP)

Hardware Type:
Management Card/Chip

Protocol:
SNMP

Connectors:
Sun/Oracle ILOM (SNMP)

Notes:
SNMP v1 needs to be enabled on the ILOM card.
Network status is only monitored from switch end.

Component:
Management / Compute Node
(in-band monitoring using SNMP)

Hardware Type:
Solaris or Windows

Protocol:
SNMP

Connectors:
MIB-2 Standard SNMP Agent
Oracle/Sun - Oracle Hardware Management Agent

Notes:
Requires installation of Oracle Hardware Management Pack on all nodes. Best results, but more difficult to implement.

Component:
Xsigo Switch

Hardware Type:
Network

Protocol:
SNMP

Connectors:
Oracle/Sun - Xsigo Switch

Notes:
SNMP v1 needs to be enabled on the switch.

Component:
ZFS Storage

Hardware Type:
Storage

Protocol:
SSH

Connectors:
Sun/Oracle - ZFS Storage Appliance