PE Hardware monitoring best practices for Linux

[Andrew Robert Nicols]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 09:13:41PM -0500, SA wrote:
> Can anyone give me advise, hopefully based on experience, for best proactive 
> hardware monitoring practices for PowerEdge servers under Linux
> 
> What tools have you found reliable?

Bit of a hacky 'tool' but one of the things we do is to:
* run 'ipmitool sel list' saving the output to a temp file;
* diff the file with the previous and mail the differences.

Quick and hacky but so far has been reliable and told us when things have
died/been unhappy.

Andrew

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