Hardware monitoring.

[Fraser Campbell]

On Wednesday 05 July 2006 13:18, Vlad 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.

IBM has director agents, raidman (for ServeRAID) and probably a few other 
things.

The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) might let you do cross 
platform (at least cross-vendor) monitoring in a standardized way.  You'll 
need IPMI drivers for the specific platform you're on but above that the 
monitoring layer can be standardized (in theory).

Check out dmtf.org, ipmitool, OpenWBEM, etc. I haven't had the time yet to 
find out if these things are useable but if they are then I expect it's a 
step in the right direction.

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Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>                 http://www.wehave.net/
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada                               Debian GNU/Linux

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Georgetown, Ontario, Canada                               Debian GNU/Linux
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