Detect disk failures from HPE Smart Storage Administrator

README.md

Introduction

You don't want to pay for an iLO subscription but still want to be warned if one of your RAID drive was to fail, this script is made for you!

Prerequisites

• Python 3
• SSACLI (from Windows Server Service Pack)

Execution

python3 check-drives.py

check-drives.py

#!python

import subprocess
import re
import smtplib
from email.message import EmailMessage

def send_email():
    mail = EmailMessage()
    mail.set_content('At least one disk is in a failed state', subtype='html')
    mail['Subject'] = 'Server - Disk error'
    mail['From'] = 'example@example.com'
    mail['To'] = 'example@example.com'

    with smtplib.SMTP('<SMTP URL>', port='587') as smtp:
        smtp.login('<SMTP login>', '<SMTP password>')
        smtp.send_message(mail)

drive_regex = re.compile('physicaldrive [^ ]+ \(.+, (.+?)\)')

process = subprocess.check_output('do-check-drives.bat')
drive_results = drive_regex.findall(process.decode())
success = True

for drive_result in drive_results:
    if drive_result != 'OK':
        success = False
if success:
    print('Everything is fine (%s disks checked)' % len(drive_results))
else:
    print('At least one disk is in a failed state, sending warning email')
    send_email()

do-check-drives.bat

"C:\Program Files\Smart Storage Administrator\ssacli\bin\ssacli.exe" controller slot=0 physicaldrive all show