<div dir="ltr">Has anyone got Dell OpenManage running on CentOS so one can monitor the server components via their web interface and via snmp?<br><br>Regards,<br> Andrew.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Sorin@Gmail <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sorin.srbu@gmail.com">sorin.srbu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Lunix1618 <> scribbled on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:45 PM:<br>
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>>>> Our department's planning to buy a refurbished Dell Poweredge 2850<br>
>>>> running dual-xeons and with a rather big raid array (8x 146GB).<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> *My* plan is to install CentOS on this machine and I'd like to hear with<br>
>>>> you guys if there are any gotchas' doing this.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> My main concern is the ability of CentOS to recognise the raid-controller<br>
>>>> of the Dell and run a raid5-array as well as drivers for the onboard<br>
>>>> NICs.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>> I am running Dell 2950 III and no issue with hardware recognization of<br>
>>> CentOs (5.2 Final)<br>
>>><br>
>>> The one small thing is I can not extend the RAID volume because at the<br>
>>> beginning time we only have 03 HDD now when we buy new HDD we recognize<br>
>>> that RAID controller (PERC 6/i) doesn't support add new HDD to existing<br>
>>> volume :( so only a choice is rebuild it.<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>> Fast reply, thx. 8-)<br>
>><br>
>> No hw-issues sounds good!<br>
>><br>
>> Do you mean extending the array from within CentOS or at firmware level at<br>
>> boot-time?<br>
>><br>
> for both, because the RAID controller doesn't support. that is not<br>
> CentOS issue.<br>
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</div>Ah, ok, Thx for the clarification.<br>
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>> I doubt however this'd be an issue with us, since the machine comes fully<br>
>> loaded from start with eight disks and we're not likely to add any more,<br>
>> new or bigger, except in the case of a disk-failure.<br>
>><br>
> Yeah, you rite and lucky :)<br>
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</div>I'm bound to be lucky after all the bad luck I've had recently with hardware...<br>
8-}<br>
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