cacti/nagios monitoring.

[Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS)]

> From:  Malcolm Frazier
> 
> I was curious if anyone knows of any nagios or cacti plug ins 
> specifically for monitoring Dell PowerEdge 1850/1750.
> I want to monitor things such as fan speeds, temperatures, 
> maybe even do 
> diagnostics. I've looked into OpenManage a bit, I'm just not 
> sure if its 
> the right choice for me.
> OpenManage seems like it runs its own web server and what 
> not, I'm just 
> not to sure about it... so if anyone else can provide a 
> better solutions 
> please let me know, thanks.

I recently set SNMP monitoring on 1850s and 2850s.  At the moment
I am monitoring them using MRTG, but I have plans ...

See:
 - http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2006-October/027925.html
 - http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2006-October/027926.html
 - http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2006-October/028002.html
 - http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2006-October/028004.html
for my ramblings.

This should provide enough information to adapt a cactus or nagios script
to monitor temperatures, fans, cpu load.

	David


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