From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 16 23:23:03 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 D7BD216A742 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 23:23:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B65743D48 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 23:23:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4GNMfRR058814; Tue, 16 May 2006 18:22:42 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060516181943.026be438@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 18:22:36 -0500 To: Jason Lixfeld , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <4F6E19E5-CB85-40E8-8E00-42EDCD9483F2@lixfeld.ca> References: <4F6E19E5-CB85-40E8-8E00-42EDCD9483F2@lixfeld.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: 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 23:23:03 -0000 You might want to look into using BigSister, in the ports: /usr/ports/net-mgmt/bigsister There are also binaries available for windows. The sensors are configurable, with various alerting options. I use it across both FreeBSD and Windows servers. -Derek At 11:33 AM 5/16/2006, Jason Lixfeld wrote: >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? >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.