On Tuesday 07 June 2005 09:46, Rob Hall wrote:
If the later I'd agree with others recommendations regarding Cacti. I use it to monitor full hardware status, temps etc, of a raft of Dell servers (although it took some setting up in terms of creating the necessary SNMP data collection/graphing elements).
I like NetMRG (http://www.netmrg.net) for monitoring things via SNMP (or other method like scripts and mysql databases).
In terms of obtaining the temps etc from the Dell servers via SNMP I use the Dell supplied OMSA (http://linux.dell.com/monitoring.shtml). A new version of OMSA is supposedly due this month that supports RHEL 4 and should therefore work on Centos 4.
I've found that OpenIPMI and IPMITool work quite well, also. OpenIPMI is compiled into the RHEL/CentOS4 kernel, and I've packaged IPMITool here: http://www.silfreed.net/articles/repo