[GRLUG] Dell Openmanage and linux

[Greg Folkert]

On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 11:19 -0400, Colin Vallance wrote:
> 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.

Once I setup the webpage... it just ran and ran and ran and ran

I just replicated it to each machine. Since I didn't want to setup a
webserver on each machine, I setup an automated scp to transfer the
generated page to the actual webserver and made sub-pages, things just
worked for ever without any problem.


> 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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