<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is one of the big, honking whole-room UPS systems. It has an add-on card that does SNMP (and not very well). You can use SNMP to get some information about temperatures and voltages but outage and brown-out condtions are only reported via SNMP traps. The trap is initiated by the UPS and someone has to be listening for the trap when it comes in. It's a big Liebert/Emerson UPS and has about $2000 worth of batteries tied to it.<br><br>Cheers!<br><br>Bob<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Cyber Source <peter@thecybersource.com><br>To: nflug@nflug.org<br>Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2007 4:30:55
PM<br>Subject: Re: [nflug] Nagios and old Dell boxes<br><br>
As far as the UPS goes, if you can get it to communicate with apcupsd, <br>that will network monitor and notify via email or user account.<br><br>Robert Meyer wrote:<br>> I'm in the process of upgrading the O/S on a bunch of older Dell <br>> (2450, 6300) PowerEdge servers. I'm trying to upgrade them all to <br>> CentOS 5. This is not a big deal except that I'm running into a bit <br>> of a snag with Dell's OpenManage. It seems that the older servers
are <br>> not supported in the newer versions of OpenManage and the old
versions <br>> don't work with the newer Linux. This is further complicated by the <br>> fact that all of the Nagios plugins that I find want at least version
<br>> 4.5 of OpenManage. It seems that the last version that supported a <br>> 2450 was 3.2.xx.<br>><br>> Has anybody out there found a solution to this problem?<br>><br>> Secondly, I've been trying to figure out what to use for monitoring <br>> all of the machines and a UPS. I've finally decided on Nagios for
the <br>> task. I'd like to find out from folks out there what they had to go <br>> through to get Nagios running and monitoring. Most specifically, I <br>> have a UPS that seems to only be able to give information about <br>> critical events through traps, not through SNMP polling. Can I get <br>> Nagios to interface with snmptrapd and be able to properly deal with <br>> traps? Most monitoring systems seem to want to poll for their status
<br>> information. We're currently using "What's Up" on a Windoze box. <br>> We'd like to make that box go away, hence the monitoring system
update.<br>><br>> We're interested in monitoring EVERYTHING that we can monitor. <br>> Especially hardware RAID disk health and temperatures.<br>><br>> Lots of work ahead of me...<br>><br>><br>> Cheers!<br>><br>> Bob<br>><br>> __________________________________________________<br>> Do You Yahoo!?<br>> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around<br>> <a href="http://mail.yahoo.com" target="_blank">http://mail.yahoo.com</a><br>>
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