Is there a distro-independent version of OpenManage?

[Paul Dekkers]

Hi,

Adam Nielsen wrote:

> I'm looking for some software that I can use to keep an eye on a 
> PowerEdge 1800 server.  It looks like the "OpenManage" application can 
> do this, but unfortunately I can't find where to download a generic 
> version of it - for some reason all I can find are Red Hat, SuSE, etc. 
> versions, I can't find a distribution independent version like with 
> other Linux apps.
> 
> Does anyone know where I can find a standardised version that will work 
> with any Linux distro?

There are people running openmanage on different platforms, or using the
ipmi stuff: but we also use the DRAC interfaces for monitoring our
systems. They can send out alerts by mail if something fails, even on
raid issues for instance.

It keeps the hardware monitoring really more separate from the operating
system itself, and access to the console can be really out of band
(while the IPMI over LAN stuff is sharing an interface, which is also
worse in security point of view, I think).

The DRAC interfaces use a bit of power, cost you a bit, but for us
that's worth it. And it doesn't really matter anymore what kind of OS
you're using.

Paul