Quoting James Bensley <[email protected]>: > IPMI is great, but if every server has it it's useless unless you can > monitor all you servers from a central place so how are people doing > this? > > Do Dell offer a solution for this?
Dell offers non-IPMI solutions (openmanage, drac, etc). > I see there is a plug-in for Nagios, but is this the most reliable and > useful option? I have found Nagios IPMI plug-ins such as; There are a number of great monitoring systems which are at their core using nagios to monitor things. I would suggest one of these over just a plain nagios install, since they layer a lot of stuff on top of nagios. Having said that, I do use nagios to monitor my Dell machines, but not via IPMI (rather openmanage, etc). > http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Hardware/Server-Hardware/Dell/Dell-BMC-IPMI-Checks/details That is rather limited compared to what you can do via e.g., openmanage. Sure, the overhead on the server is less, but the amount of data is also less. > But seeing as we don't use Nagios I don't want to have to set it up > just for this, has anyone else found any other ways of monitoring > multiple IPMI interfaces or is Nagios worth the effort perhaps? So far, I've not had the need since openmanage works for me (even on "unsupported" systems). I suppose if I couldn't run something better on a Dell machine for some reason, I would use IPMI with nagios, but that hasn't been needed yet. > -- > Regards, > James. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns! _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
