Questions about monitoring Dell servers
Jason Lixfeld
jason+lists.freebsd-questions at lixfeld.ca
Tue May 16 16:15:16 PDT 2006
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.
>
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