[nflug] Nagios and old Dell boxes

Robert Wolfe robert at wolfe-n-wolfe-enterprises.com
Sun Nov 11 20:05:04 EST 2007


Robert, are you looking for something that reads SNMP values and formats them in a way that Nagios can display?

Original Message -----------------------
Well, I tried installing the new version.  All I get is a message that says: Unsupported architecture: 7F.  So I'm guessing it checks the machine before it installs.  I am going to have to try 4.5, again.  I tried it once and had a problem with libraries.  I was in the middle of something else so I couldn't really work the issue.

I was hoping to get hold of someone that has done SNMP traps in Nagios to see what the experiences were.  From the sounds of things, I'm blazing new trails for the group.  There are SNMP trap plugins for Nagios but there are a bunch of them and I was hoping someone knew which was better.

I have a boot disk with everything installed that I downloaded from Dell's site.  I'm going to boot one of the boxes with it and see what it comes up with for support.  There is a possibility of the thing working but I'm not holding out much hope.

Cheers! 
Bob

----- Original Message ----
From: David J. Andruczyk <djandruczyk at yahoo.com>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 9:58:55 AM
Subject: Re: [nflug] Nagios and old Dell boxes


According to ?Dell's site OM 4.5 is avaiol for a
server that ancient.  but have you even TRIED to
instlal OM-5.2 on the box?

to monitor by nagios,  run snmptrad on a box and have
that log through syslog, and use nagios's syslog
monitor (ugly hack but works).  though I think hte new
current version of nagios accepts traps directly.


--- Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm in the process of upgrading the O/S on a bunch
> of older Dell (2450, 6300) PowerEdge servers.  I'm
> trying to upgrade them all to CentOS 5.  This is not
> a big deal except that I'm running into a bit of a
> snag with Dell's OpenManage.  It seems that the
> older servers are not supported in the newer
> versions of OpenManage and the old versions don't
> work with the newer Linux.  This is further
> complicated by the fact that all of the Nagios
> plugins that I find want at least version 4.5 of
> OpenManage.  It seems that the last version that
> supported a 2450 was 3.2.xx.
> 
> Has anybody out there found a solution to this
> problem?
> 
> Secondly, I've been trying to figure out what to use
> for monitoring all of the machines and a UPS.  I've
> finally decided on Nagios for the task.  I'd like to
> find out from folks out there what they had to go
> through to get Nagios running and monitoring.  Most
> specifically, I have a UPS that seems to only be
> able to give information about critical events
> through traps, not through SNMP polling.  Can I get
> Nagios to interface with snmptrapd and be able to
> properly deal with traps?  Most monitoring systems
> seem to want to poll for their status information. 
> We're currently using "What's Up" on a Windoze box. 
> We'd like to make that box go away, hence the
> monitoring system update.
> 
> We're interested in monitoring EVERYTHING that we
> can monitor.  Especially hardware RAID disk health
> and temperatures.
> 
> Lots of work ahead of me...
> 
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
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