We use NAGIOS and the same openmanage plugin as listed below, querying over SNMP. It works really well for us. I've tried to persuade TrustWave (formerly RedCondor) to enable this on their appliances, so I can monitor them in the same way. I had a RAID battery out for several months that I only discovered because I happened to be squatting down looking at an adjacent server. If I had had openmmanage checking, I would have known in 5 minutes.
Frank -----Original Message----- From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of berg...@merctech.com 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. 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 Nagios. => people they are required to install OMSA than to force them to install => other agents. I'm sure other monitoring solutions have better reporting => capabilities and much better user interfaces, so using those frameworks => with the Dell software as a back end could be a good thing. There are some good Nagios plugins to query OpenManage, but of course that requires nrpe or ssh access or some other method for the OpenManage data to get back to Nagios. I've been happy with: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Hardware/Server-Hardware/Dell/c heck_openmanage/details It does require a little server-specific tweaking. For example, machines w/o PERC cards require that the openmanage check be configured to exclude some storage components, or they will report as an error. Mark => => Thoughts? Other views are quite welcome. => => -- Matt => It's not what I know that counts. => It's what I can remember in time to use. => _______________________________________________ => Tech mailing list => Tech@lists.lopsa.org => https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech => This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators => http://lopsa.org/ => -- Mark Bergman Biker, Rock Climber, Unix mechanic, IATSE #1 Stagehand '94 Yamaha GTS1000A^2 berg...@panix.com http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=bergman%40panix.com I want a newsgroup with a infinite S/N ratio! Now taking CFV on: rec.motorcycles.stagehands.pet-bird-owners.pinballers.unix-supporters 15+ So Far--Want to join? Check out: http://www.panix.com/~bergman _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
