Just a quick question to see if any of the list members are using
Gentoo - or any other Linux distro for that matter - on Dell
PowerEdge 2600 or 2800 servers?
A site I manage has had from new a 2800 running Windows, which we're
quite happy with (the 2800, that is, not Windows ;). We really need
new hardware for our Linux-based mailserver & similar systems seem to
be quite affordable on the secondhand market, and it would make quite
a bit of sense for us to use one of these.
I haven't done much digging yet, but thought a quick show of hands
here might save some time. It looks like the SCSI hot-swap / RAID
controller uses an AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver which is (?) part of the
main kernel - anyone know if that does status updates (dead-hard
drives &c) to the syslog? Does it depend on any userland utilities
that are only available as RPM or whatever?
I know RedHat &/or Suse are supported on this machine, but I've been
using Gentoo so long now I find it hard to use them thar binary
distros. It'd also be nice if power-supply failures were logged in
the same way - anyone know? I've had some experience in the past with
a Compaq Proliant 6500 and certain utilities for that would only
report problems via SNMP, which was a bit of a pain.
Cheers,
Stroller.
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