Dell Servers, SNMP/Linux, & SCOM 2007

[Jefferson Cowart]

Have you looked at the Dell Management Pack for SCOM? (See
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/sitelets/solutions/manage
ment/microsoft_sms?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz&~section=002 and
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=555&l=en
&s=biz&releaseid=R158716&SystemID=PWE_FOS_XEO_2650&servicetag=&os=WNET&o
sl=en&deviceid=15333&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=1&catid=36&impid=-1&forma
tcnt=1&libid=36&fileid=212055 

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Thank You
Jefferson Cowart
Network and Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries Information Technology 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-
> bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Jones, Marc T
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:04
> To: linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
> Subject: Dell Servers, SNMP/Linux, & SCOM 2007
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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