Hi, Or you install the It Assistant on xp or vista! http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smitasst/8.5/en/ug/planni ng.htm#wp1052568 or in a vm if you don't have to much systems to monitor.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Trond Hasle Amundsen Sent: Mittwoch, 19. August 2009 13:44 To: Faris Raouf Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: Re: non-2000/2003/2008 IT Assistant compatibility "Faris Raouf" <[email protected]> writes: > We now have a fair few Dells running Centos with OMSA and it is getting > inconvenient to monitor them individually via the OMSA web gui on each > machine. > > The problem is that we don't have any Windows 2000, or Windows Server > 2003/2008 systems on which to install IT Assistant (these OSes being the > only ones listed as compatible in Dell docs that I could see). > > We have plenty of XP and Vista workstations though. > > It my only option likely to be to install Windows 2000 in a VM on one of our > workstations, or might there be a better solution (other than using > something like Nagios which I note a lot of people on this list use but > which I'm not sure we have the time to get up to speed with - much as I'd > like to because it does look excellent) Nagios is highly recommended, but you don't need Nagios to use Nagios plugins. They are essentially little programs that outputs something and has a known return code: 0 = OK 1 = warning 2 = critical 3 = unknown You can for example use this plugin: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Hardware/Server-Hardware/De ll/check_openmanage/details Install it somewhere on your servers, and create a shell script similar to this (very simple example): #!/bin/bash host=$(uname -n) err=$(/path/to/check_openmanage 2>&1) if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo $err | /bin/mail -s "Hardware error on $host" [email protected] fi Then put this script in your crontab on the servers and run as often as you want. But still, installing and running Nagios is probably worth it :) Cheers, -- Trond Hasle Amundsen <[email protected]> Center for Information Technology Services, University of Oslo _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
