[GRLUG] Dell Openmanage and linux

[Colin Vallance]

Greg,

I think you hit the nail on the head for me, "more than some are  
willing to do".  My current prod server sitting out in a data center  
in CA has no remote monitoring at all.  I know if we notice that a  
drive has failed or something we can call in a support ticket.  This  
new box is going in to a coloc somewhere so I'm looking for a quick  
heads up hardware heath status without much effort.  IF there are  
other, open source, lighter weight options I'm more than willing to  
give them a shot.  What I don't want to do is cobble something  
inferior up that I'll spend any time at all maintaining.



On May 9, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Greg Folkert wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 10:00 -0400, Colin Vallance wrote:
>> I've got a Dell Poweredge 750 that I'm going to be putting in to
>> production for personal use and I was wondering if anyone has
>> experience with using Open Manage in linux.  I've never installed it
>> myself so I don't really know where to begin.  I've used it on  
>> Windows
>> servers that came factory direct from Dell with it pre-installed so I
>> know it's a valuable tool.  Anyone gone through that setup before?
>
> Does the Dell support IPMI? Does OpenManage follow the IPMI standards?
> Does the Dell have a network port for a "LightsOut" kind of thing  
> (yes,
> HPs Lights Out is what i am referring to), if so... use it for "reset"
> buttons and so on.
>
> If the Dell does support IPMI there is a WHOLE HECK of a lot of stuff
> out there that can do the job better and with *WAY* less resources.
> (IMO)
>
> Plus, you can just roll your own status stuff easily. Scripts...
> Apache... cron...  I was doing things using lm_sensors, "NUT", iostat,
> vmstat, *stat... and had a single text webpage I could monitor all day
> and collect and see the health of my machines.
>
> But that may be more than some are willing to do.
> -- 
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