On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:07 PM, James Bensley <jwbens...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4 August 2010 17:52, Rahul Nabar <rpna...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What if you monitor in-band using something like pings, heartbeat, >> ganglia etc.? Then use ipmi (via ipmitool) only when stuff goes wrong >> and a machine is hung or crashed. > > Not a bad idea but with IPMI waiting till something goes POP is silly, > I could have already been using it to see the temperature on my CPUs > rising, or the 2nd power supply flapping etc etc...
I monitor temperatures via lm_sensors. Again in-band. I try to keep my monitoring in-band unless there is a compelling reason to use ipmi. Maybe some sensors are not available to lm_sensors. Of course, there has to be some aggregation tool whenever you have many servers. But that's a different issue from whether to use in-band (lm_sensors) or out-of-band (ipmi). Personally, both nagios and ganglia have worked well for the aggregation and display. -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
