[GRLUG] Dell Openmanage and linux

[Colin Vallance]

Good ol' google...

It looks like IPMI 1.0 is supported on my server.  I'm probably going  
with Ubuntu rather than REHL or Centos which is what Dell officially  
supports I think.  I'm beginning to wander outside my known territory  
so advice would be welcome at this point.  Any chance you could screen  
shot your webpage so I can see an example of what you're talking about?


On May 9, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Greg Folkert wrote:

>
> 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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