On 03/09/2013 11:05 AM, Matt Lawrence wrote:
I have a datacenter full of Dell equipment I need to monitor. While the higher level monitoring is (sort of) taken care of, the low level monitoring isn't. So I'm looking for tools (Open Source preferred but not required) that will do low level monitoring via IPMI and/or iDRAC interfaces and report hardware issues back to me. Bonus if it will also monitor Force 10 switches and EqualLogic disk arrays.
Last time I was in that situation, we just setup a centralized console logging server; my situation was tens of kiloservers, so we actually needed two centralized logging servers. with a few hundred, you only need one.
First thing we did was setup everything so we could ssh or telnet into something and get the console. our systems were mixed, but for the dells, it's easy enough to setup serial console redirection to com2 in the bios of the regular server, then to ssh into the drac and see the serial console (I forget the 'look at com2' command in drac command line, but it's fairly simple.) - some of our stuff used ipmi instead, and others were on old cyclades serial consoles, which we setup so you could telnet into port 4001 for port 1, 4001 for port 2, etc...
then we had our central server ssh/telnet into each box and log the output to a file. we could then use 'grep' to look for MCEs and EDAC and the like.
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