Hardware monitoring.

[Kyle O'Donnell]

Hi Vlad,

Thanks for the response.

We'll be using linux in our server environment.  We have yet to
standardize on a distro or hardware platform (redhat or suse, and sun
or ibm).  I believe IBM director works in linux.  Im trying to compile
is list of non hardware/distro specific tools.

--kyleo

On 7/5/06, Vlad <shiwan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>         Well. Are you using servers, or desktops as servers?
>
>         If they're servers, then the PSP for HP gear, and OMS for Dell
> gear is what you want; IBM gear has an equivalent as well. All for
> Linux, of course. They all interface with net-snmp, for status/health
> polling, and failure/error trapping.
>
>         If they're generic servers (or Sun servers), you're mostly out
> of luck. A failure will be detected when the box goes down. About the
> only thing you can reliably check for is disk failure in a RAID set
> (and some somewhat inadequate SMART stuff); anything else won't be
> redundant enough to matter.
>         A good hack job is needed, pretty much.
>
>
>         -- Vlad
>
> On 7/5/06, Kyle O'Donnell <kyleodonnell-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > We have been investigating ways to monitor the underlying hardware on
> > our linux machines.  I've looked into using the following tools:
> >
> > net-snmp
> > lm_sensors
> > smartd
> > hal
> >
> > Is anyone using anything else to detect failures and gather hardware
> stats?
> >
> > Thanks,
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