Re: [lopsa-tech] OpenManage

2013-04-06 Thread Frank Bulk
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 10:09 AM To: Matt Lawrence Cc: tech@lists.lopsa.org Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] OpenManage In the message dated: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:19:29 -0500, The pithy ruminations from Matt Lawrence on <[lopsa-tech] OpenManage> were: => Yet another monitoring question. S

Re: [lopsa-tech] OpenManage

2013-04-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > On Behalf Of Matt Lawrence > > the various tools in the OpenManage family. It's a lot easier to tell The only reason I know to install OMSA is so you can manage the PERC without stopping a server and going into BIOS.

Re: [lopsa-tech] OpenManage

2013-04-05 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:19:29 -0500, The pithy ruminations from Matt Lawrence on <[lopsa-tech] OpenManage> were: => Yet another monitoring question. Since I work in an environment that is => almost exclusively Dell, and I'm looking for a monitor

Re: [lopsa-tech] OpenManage

2013-04-05 Thread Skylar Thompson
On 04/05/2013 08:26 AM, Jon Dustin wrote: I've installed OMSA on Linux servers, then used some command-line scripts to parse status and send to another monitoring system. This way I'm not saddled with a "Dell-centric" monitoring console, yet still can see inside these servers. We did the sam

Re: [lopsa-tech] OpenManage

2013-04-05 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, Brad Bendily wrote: Installing Dell OpenManage installs the Dell MiBs. You can use these to then roll your own SNMP monitoring script. Find the MIBs of things that are important to you and just monitor those. While I'm quite capable of writing my own monitoring solution, I

Re: [lopsa-tech] OpenManage

2013-04-05 Thread Brad Bendily
Installing Dell OpenManage installs the Dell MiBs. You can use these to then roll your own SNMP monitoring script. Find the MIBs of things that are important to you and just monitor those. On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Matt Lawrence wrote: > Yet another monitoring question. Since I work in

Re: [lopsa-tech] OpenManage

2013-04-05 Thread Jon Dustin
>>> On 4/5/2013 at 10:19 AM, in message , Matt Lawrence wrote: > Yet another monitoring question. Since I work in an environment that is > almost exclusively Dell, and I'm looking for a monitoring solution, I'm > wondering if any of the popular monitoring solutions out there leverage > the var

[lopsa-tech] OpenManage

2013-04-05 Thread Matt Lawrence
Yet another monitoring question. Since I work in an environment that is almost exclusively Dell, and I'm looking for a monitoring solution, I'm wondering if any of the popular monitoring solutions out there leverage the various tools in the OpenManage family. It's a lot easier to tell people