Monitoring Dell stuff?

[Jeff Rodriguez]

I personally would not, and the company I work for is not trying to integrate 
OpenManage with Nagios. I think you're better off just having them separate, the 
only thing I might check in nagios is a global system status.

However, if you're interested, Dell has a document about integrating Nagios and 
Dell OpenManage. Note that this has been mentioned on the Nagios propaganda page:
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/1q04-sch.pdf

Jeff

Alex Burger wrote:
> 
> How about configuring your Dell servers to send SNMP traps to your 
> management server, which could then feed the traps in to Nagios?
> 
> I have not done it with Dell, but on my Compaq serves I configured them 
> with the Insight Agents and have them send all alerts to my management 
> station running Net-SNMP.  Net-SNMP passes it on to SNMPTT (to translate 
> the traps into something readable) which then passes it on to Nagios for 
> alerting.
> 
> The Compaq agents (Linux, Windows etc) have over 300 different traps 
> from network link up/down, hard drive failures, power supply failures 
> etc.  Instead of polling for all the services, have the sever tell you 
> when something is wrong.  You can do the same with UPSs, SAN devices 
> etc.  You would still need Nagios to tell you if the server is up, and 
> could also poll to make sure the management agents are running.
> 
> The document 'Integrating_PowerEdge_Servers_into_HPSIM40.pdf' says there 
> are 36 traps in 10982.mib for motherboard alerts, and 80 traps in 
> arymgr.mib.  I found the document at:
> 
> http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/solutions/Integrating_PowerEdge_Servers_into_HPSIM40.pdf 
> 
> 
> Check out sections 3 and 7.
> 
> An example of an alert I could get from a Compaq server is:
> 
> "Compaq Drive Array Spare Drive on controller 3, bus 0, bay 3 status is 
> Failed."
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> Jeff Rodriguez wrote:
> 
>> You should check out Dell OpenManage and Dell IT Assistant. The server 
>> runs on windows but will tell you much more about the status of your 
>> systems than Nagios ever could. I believe it's free too...
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> Jonathan Nichols wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings all..
>>>
>>>     Are any of you using Linux on the Dell PowerEdge boxes? If yes, 
>>> what are you using to monitor the RAID status (if you're using RAID) 
>>> - currently my method consists of checking /proc/megaraid/hba0/ and 
>>> doing this:
>>>
>>> jnichols at mailgate hba0 $ sudo cat raiddrives-0-9
>>> Logical drive: 0:, state: optimal
>>> Span depth:  1, RAID level:  1, Stripe size: 64, Row size:  2
>>> Read Policy: Adaptive, Write Policy: Write back, Cache Policy: Direct IO
>>>
>>> jnichols at mailgate hba0 $
>>>
>>> That method sucks. I need to find something better. :) The Dell RAID 
>>> monitoring tools are an absolute joke, and seem to be Red Hat 
>>> specific (I don't use Red Hat..using Gentoo)
>>>
>>> Has anybody run into this?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> -Jonathan
>>>
>>> (ps, yes, I checked Google..didn't find a lot, was hoping for 
>>> personal experiences)
> 
> 
> 
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