Re: Consistent Network Device Naming for LOMs coming...

2010-11-15 Thread Zach White
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Sean Dilda wrote: > On 11/14/10 12:40 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > Fair enough - but if this is just name bikeshedding, then you are > > welcome to write udev rules to name them however you like. The > > process of finding and naming them remains the same. > > A la

Re: amazon ec2 hosting?

2010-07-13 Thread Zach White
I agree with most of the below, and would add the following: EC2 is more expensive if you have a static load, or if you don't aggressively manage your pool of VM's. If you aren't using S3, AWS or another amazon service, it's even more expensive. If all you need is a static pool of VM servers, and

Re: getting started with 2970

2010-04-15 Thread Zach White
The Dell tools will let you configure the RAID from within linux (using omconfig) and there is a live cd from Dell that will boot into a linux environment that includes omconfig. In theory you can pass the right parameters at boot time to have this livecd connect the console to the serial port,

Re: [official] OpenManage 6.2 yum repository posted

2009-12-17 Thread Zach White
As other people have pointed out, the symlinks in /usr/bin seem to be missing. This has broken all the Dell specific monitoring on my test server (which points at the linux.dell.com repository, not my local rsync'd repository.) Things like cron jobs, init scripts, NRPE plugins, etc, all use