From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 22 15:45:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8561E16A41C for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:45:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@as9105.com) Received: from sickle.as9105.com (sickle.as9105.com [212.139.129.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F279043D49 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:45:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@as9105.com) Received: (qmail 25197 invoked by uid 30010); 22 Jun 2005 15:45:31 -0000 Received: from freebsd@as9105.com by sickle.as9105.com by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (clamscan: 0.75.1. spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(212.74.112.53):. Processed in 1.502025 secs); 22 Jun 2005 15:45:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO d2) (postmaster@as9105.com@212.74.112.53) by sickle.as9105.com with SMTP; 22 Jun 2005 15:45:30 -0000 From: "Danny Cooper" To: "'Alex Zbyslaw'" Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:45:27 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 In-Reply-To: <42B98556.6060908@dial.pipex.com> Thread-Index: AcV3QByEq1/315z/QJGHzfRIKin7CQAAL0lg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-Qmail-Scanner-Message-ID: <111945513067225191@sickle.as9105.com> Message-Id: <20050622154532.F279043D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Dell PowerEge 2850 and RAID X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:45:33 -0000 1) LED watching is the only way at the moment 2) Here is DELLs DRAC 4 info http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdrac3/drac4/1.2/en/UG/index .htm?c=us&l=en&s=gen&cs= The DRAC 4 looks impressive from the documents , but I still haven't configured it :$ Its completely independent from OS, just windows and linux have a few tools which you can configure the card from the OS etc... When I get round to it, I will setup SNMP traps for system errors. But from reading the docs you can login to it and find out the system state. DC -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Alex Zbyslaw Sent: 22 June 2005 16:36 To: Danny Cooper Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PowerEge 2850 and RAID Danny Cooper wrote: >We have the PE2850 with PERC 4e/Di controller but this can not be monitored >through FreeBSD, I am currently looking at a Drac4 to send traps out to >another server for monitoring purposes. > > Thanks for the info. Two followup questions for you, if I may. 1) Assuming you are using RAID features, what are you doing right now to monitor whether the disks are OK? (Please feel free to say that you're watching the LEDs flash, but if you do, I think I'll start gibbering and drooling in the corner). 2) The only mention (other than Dell sales-brochure-speak) of the DRAC which I found was this, http://stats.kwsn.net/newfeatures.html, which implies that the DRAC is usable regardless of what OS you run. My impression is that it is basically giving you a remote console which lets you at the innards of the machine. You say you're looking at getting the Drac4 to do automatic notification, but can you, right now, just log in to it and tell the state of the disks? Sorry if these questions are a bit basic. I've never worked with Dell server kit before, or even a RAID under FreeBSD. Thanks, --Alex _______________________________________________ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"