If these physical hosts are running dell open manage, you can monitor them and gather historical data for trending via the nagios check_openmanage plugin.
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Hardware/Server-Hardware/Dell/check_openmanage/details On Mar 9, 2013 3:04 PM, "Luke S. Crawford" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/09/2013 11:05 AM, Matt Lawrence wrote: > >> I have a datacenter full of Dell equipment I need to monitor. While the >> higher level monitoring is (sort of) taken care of, the low level >> monitoring isn't. So I'm looking for tools (Open Source preferred but >> not required) that will do low level monitoring via IPMI and/or iDRAC >> interfaces and report hardware issues back to me. Bonus if it will also >> monitor Force 10 switches and EqualLogic disk arrays. >> > > Last time I was in that situation, we just setup a centralized console > logging server; my situation was tens of kiloservers, so we actually > needed two centralized logging servers. with a few hundred, you only need > one. > > First thing we did was setup everything so we could ssh or telnet into > something and get the console. our systems were mixed, but for the dells, > it's easy enough to setup serial console redirection to com2 in the bios of > the regular server, then to ssh into the drac and see the serial console (I > forget the 'look at com2' command in drac command line, but it's fairly > simple.) - some of our stuff used ipmi instead, and others were on old > cyclades serial consoles, which we setup so you could telnet into port 4001 > for port 1, 4001 for port 2, etc... > > then we had our central server ssh/telnet into each box and log the output > to a file. we could then use 'grep' to look for MCEs and EDAC and the like. > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/tech<https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech> > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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