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[Part 2 of this series which involves the actual configuration of the Vyatta routers is now up here -crt] At work we’ve recently made the decision to migrate to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2003. While we do have an environment that we can use for some testing of the migration it doesn’t mimic our production environment [...] I had a little time today and needed to mentally switch gears so I took a look again at the 3i storage script for Nagios and made some changes to it to clean it up a little bit. I also made clones…er …versions rather…. for monitoring CPU status, memory status, and sensor data (i.e. fan [...] As I mentioned in an earlier post one of the issues we’ve had with the idea of deploying ESX 3i vs 3.5 is the ability to monitor the hardware since neither the DRAC card nor the BMC via IPMI seem to be able to give us all the info we need. I had [...] Okay now that we have a user that’s set up for access to IPMI what can we find out about our server from a monitoring perspective? If run ipmitool -h we get a list of commands we can run.
Several of these “commands” have sub commands. For example the [...] Setting up IPMI via the DRAC We’ll walk through the steps to set up the server for monitoring via IPMI using the DRAC. It is supposedly possible to do this without the DRAC, but I haven’t had a reason to try to do that yet. Log in the DRAC (ex: https://<RAC IP [...] In one of my projects at work, we’ve been debating whether to use ESX 3i (installable) or ESX 3.5 on a large number of Dell servers we’re getting ready to deploy. The advantage of 3i is we can treat the host as more of an appliance (i.e. hopefully fewer patches/maintenance). Downside is monitoring. Since [...] |
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