Dell Servers, SNMP/Linux, & SCOM 2007

[Jones, Marc T]

I have the Dell Management Pack installed which works fine on windows
servers. It doesn't work with Linux servers. SCOM only recognizes SNMP
devices as network devices. The management pack from Dell does not
appear to be smart enough to deal with SNMP vents from a Dell server.

Really if someone could tell me that all hardware failure events are
part of a specific OID branch that would be fine, since I can configure
SCOM to responded to a range of OIDs. Perhaps this is less of Linux
question and more of a SNMP question.

Marc Jones
Systems Administrator
Student Affairs Information Technology

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Jefferson Cowart
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:37 PM
To: linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: RE: Dell Servers, SNMP/Linux, & SCOM 2007

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 

--
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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