The DRACs that I've worked with offer very little in the way of RAID
failure notification. Using OpenManage Server Administrator, just to
manage RAID alerts is, IMO, like using Oracle to manage your household
recipes.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:43 PM
Subject: RE: RAID failure monitoring
Configure the server's onboard alerting feature.
Dell = DRAC and/or OpenManage Server Administrator.
Get alerts for CPU, like 6 temperature sensors, Fan, power supplies,
hung system, etc.
Without proper alert management in place = naked and unprotected system
that should not be in production, imo.
If it's you mail system, configure the alerts to trip a script that will
send a message to a SMS gateway so you get a page on your cell phone.
Useful when the mail server is down or the queues are clogged.
What nice about that, is that the alert will tell you why your system is
down, either hard disk, backplane, raid card, power supply... etc. On
the drive to the data center, you can call your Support rep and get the
part ordered before you are at the system
-Sam
From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:34 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RAID failure monitoring
What tool do you guys use to get notified of RAID drive failures? Not
SAN, just good ol' drives in an onboard array. I have several remote
systems and the "hey what's that blinking light" method isn't exactly
optimal....
Servers in question are IBM xSeries and Dell PowerEdge systems.
Dave Lum - Systems Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025
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