Debian Etch on PowerEdge SC1435

[Jim Nelson]

David Sparks wrote:
>> Can anybody share their experience (good or bad) with Debian on a
>> PowerEdge SC1435?
> 
> Looking past Debian the drawback of running any non-RPM distro on Dell
> hardware is no OMSA, or a involved process installing OMSA.  The "drivers" for
> all hardware is in the mainline kernel.
> 
> Like you said, if you want to run the diagnostics of OMSA, boot from a LiveCD.
>  Hardware monitoring can be done via IPMI and MegaCli so I'm not even sure
> what OMSA provides.  I don't miss it but maybe I don't know what I'm missing?
> 

The biggest advantage I've found with OMSA is a consistent testing interface - 
we have 750s, 1750s, 840s, 850s, 860s, 1950s, and 1800s at our datacenter, and I 
can use the exact same nagios plugins for every one of them.

I've heard say that the SC1435 is supported by OMSA, but I'm not sure, since we 
don't have any.  The SC1425 won't take it from the rpm repository, though.