Questions about monitoring Dell servers

[Derek Ragona]

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?
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