From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 16 16:33:57 2006 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144E316A456 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 16 May 2006 16:33:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jason+lists.freebsd-questions@lixfeld.ca) Received: from eshara.ebit.ca (eshara.ebit.ca [69.90.17.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE69D43D48 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 16 May 2006 16:33:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason+lists.freebsd-questions@lixfeld.ca) Received: from [216.7.194.254] (helo=[192.168.100.191]) by eshara.ebit.ca with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1Fg2Ue-0005oG-0h for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 12:33:56 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <4F6E19E5-CB85-40E8-8E00-42EDCD9483F2@lixfeld.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jason Lixfeld <jason+lists.freebsd-questions@lixfeld.ca> Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 12:33:50 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) Subject: Questions about monitoring Dell servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 16:33:57 -0000 I've got a couple of Dell PowerEdge 1850s, one of which has FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on it. I'm trying to figure out the best way to monitor these boxes. I'm interested in RAID status more than anything else, but I'd like to get as many of the sensors working as possible. What I'm confused about is the difference between IPMI, Open Manage and DRAC. I don't quite understand what does what, and how FreeBSD support is for either of these options. I tried and failed to get IMPI working, I tried to setup linux compatibility to get Open Manage working (which I assume is the osabmcutil RPM) but I couldn't. And I'm not sure if any of these is dependent on the DRAC card or if the DRAC card and these options are mutually exclusive and the DRAC card just does "some other cool stuff"(tm). Can anyone share their experiences?