Detecting lights on Dell

[Davide Ferrari]

El Tuesday 11 December 2007 15:18:13 Terry Gliedt escribió:
> We've recently moved a number of Dells PowerEdge servers (1425, 1850,
> 1950, 2950) to a remote location. I'd like to run a cron job to detect
> that an orange light is on, meaning 'come pay attention to me'. I have
> one such machine for 'testing'.

I think that you're taking the wrong approach. I mean, external lights are 
meant to inform people phisically there, and they respond to hardware status 
changes. But there could be LOTS of meanings for a yellow led blinking. So, 
the best way to operate is directly checking the hardware from remote with a 
specific tool like Dell OpenManage, that can guarantee you a better fine 
grained control over your hardware status.

HTH

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Davide Ferrari
System Administrator
Atrapalo.com