From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 16 23:15:16 2006 Return-Path: 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 7A03616A411 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 23:15:16 +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 2321243D46 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 23:15:16 +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 1Fg8l0-0008wB-SW; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:15:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060516130121.1660ab5d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <4F6E19E5-CB85-40E8-8E00-42EDCD9483F2@lixfeld.ca> <20060516130121.1660ab5d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jason Lixfeld Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 19:15:06 -0400 To: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about monitoring Dell servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 23:15:16 -0000 On 16-May-06, at 1:01 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > If it's the right type of driver, the megarc port might be helpful. > Works on our Dells. This was a huge help! Worked on both boxes, the FreeBSD box and the linux box. Fantastic suggestion, thank you! > DRAC is irrelevant to FreeBSD. Configure it in the BIOS (give it an > IP and the like) and you can use a web browser to get a console > window. > (True console, so that you can access the BIOS during boot and > everything). I can configure an IP address on the BMC, but that's obviously different than the DRAC. Before, when I tried to configure an IP on the BMC, I couldn't see any IP info for it at all in the system. Couldn't ping it, couldn't see a mac address for it, nothing so I wasn't sure if the BMC networking portion would work without the DRAC or not. > Install ipmitool and use it to access IPMI over the network. I tried that too, but based on above, I couldn't get the BMC to be seen on the network. > We have a central machine that monitors all our servers via a Nagios > plugin to ipmitool. I can't offer any advice on getting OpenIPMI > working. Is there a particular benefit to OpenIPMI vs. FreeIPMI? I know the latter is all in userland as opposed to OpenIPMI which is partly comprised of kernel modules (or is that just in Linux land?) > DRAC and IPMI are completely seperate. There is some overlap, for > example > both DRAC and IPMI can be used to monitor sensors and reboot the > hardware. > > DRAC is nice in that it gives you a spiffy web interface, as well > as the > whole console over IP thing. IPMI is nice because it's a standard > that > can be programmed to, with ipmitool, for example. I'm still a little fuzzy on the IP capabilities of IPMI vs DRAC. > -- > Bill Moran > Collaborative Fusion Inc. >