Dell Servers, SNMP/Linux, & SCOM 2007

[Jones, Marc T]

My office runs a pretty even mix of Linux (Debian Etch) and Windows 2003
servers. We have chosen SCOM as our management server, mostly because it
is very cheap with our contracts and works great with Windows OSes. Now
that SCOM 2007 supports SNMPv1, it is actually pretty easy to configure
OMSA and Net-SNMP to send SNMP traps to SCOM 2007. And configuring SCOM
to deal with SNMP events is actually pretty easy. 

The only problem is that myself, the other SysAdmins and our significant
others are sick of being notified about informational events on the
hardware at 3:30 in the morning. I know I can type in ever OID from a
MIB file and create a custom MP for SCOM, but I though configuring OMSA
to only send traps for critical events or configuring SCOM to say that
all OID between n and m are critical would be simpler. There does not
appear to be an easy way to import the MIB into SCOM.

Has anyone else come up with a solution for monitoring Dell hardware
through SNMP and identify which events are worth paging someone about?
Does anyone have any information on configuring any management server to
monitor dell servers over SNMP, like these OID are critical events,
these OIDS are warnings, etc...? Or has someone created a MP for SCOM to
do this?

Marc Jones
Systems Administrator
Student Affairs Information Technology
McMahon Commons, Main Floor
2011 Hillside Road, U-1228
Storrs, CT 06269-1228
Phone: (860) 486-4559, Fax (860) 486-6818