Has anyone got Dell OpenManage running on CentOS so one can monitor the server components via their web interface and via snmp? Regards, Andrew. On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Sorin at Gmail <sorin.srbu at gmail.com> wrote: > Lunix1618 <> scribbled on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:45 PM: > > >>>> Our department's planning to buy a refurbished Dell Poweredge 2850 > >>>> running dual-xeons and with a rather big raid array (8x 146GB). > >>>> > >>>> *My* plan is to install CentOS on this machine and I'd like to hear > with > >>>> you guys if there are any gotchas' doing this. > >>>> > >>>> My main concern is the ability of CentOS to recognise the > raid-controller > >>>> of the Dell and run a raid5-array as well as drivers for the onboard > >>>> NICs. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> I am running Dell 2950 III and no issue with hardware recognization of > >>> CentOs (5.2 Final) > >>> > >>> The one small thing is I can not extend the RAID volume because at the > >>> beginning time we only have 03 HDD now when we buy new HDD we recognize > >>> that RAID controller (PERC 6/i) doesn't support add new HDD to existing > >>> volume :( so only a choice is rebuild it. > >>> > >> > >> Fast reply, thx. 8-) > >> > >> No hw-issues sounds good! > >> > >> Do you mean extending the array from within CentOS or at firmware level > at > >> boot-time? > >> > > for both, because the RAID controller doesn't support. that is not > > CentOS issue. > > Ah, ok, Thx for the clarification. > > > >> I doubt however this'd be an issue with us, since the machine comes > fully > >> loaded from start with eight disks and we're not likely to add any more, > >> new or bigger, except in the case of a disk-failure. > >> > > Yeah, you rite and lucky :) > > I'm bound to be lucky after all the bad luck I've had recently with > hardware... > 8-} > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080916/062d7939/attachment-0004.html>