[nflug] Nagios and old Dell boxes

[Cyber Source]

As far as the UPS goes, if you can get it to communicate with apcupsd, 
that will network monitor and notify via email or user account.

Robert Meyer 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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