CentOS - Oct 2007 - SNMP and MIB

Hello

We have Dell servers and need to monitor them through SNMP.
but need to install or insert Dell MIBs to our Centos.
is copying MIBs are enough ?

has any one is using Dell OpenManage on  Centos ?

Thanks

> We have Dell servers and need to monitor them through SNMP.
> but need to install or insert Dell MIBs to our Centos.
> is copying MIBs are enough ?
I haven't worked with the Dell mibs besides walking them when I was
first playing with OMSA
 
> has any one is using Dell OpenManage on  Centos ?
I use OMSA on all our Dell hardware and query it with a nagios plugin I
got from either my groundworks install or from nagiosexchange.org

Last week I started playing with the Dell software repoisitories. They
are pretty fantastic.
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/hardware

On 10/19/07, Centos <centos at unixplanet.biz>
wrote:
> has any one is using Dell OpenManage on  Centos ?
We use Dell OpenManage on Centos 4.5. First you have to trick the
OpenManage software (and installer) into thinking you have RHEL. For
v4 you add "Nahant" to the end of line of text in /etc/redhat-release.
Nahant is the code name for RHEL4 and Dell software looks for it to
know what type of system you are running.

Then you need to add a few lines to your snmpd.conf:

rwcommunity  <comunityname> <monitor ip address>
view all included .1
smuxpeer .1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1

Where <communityname> is a name of your choosing and <monitor ip
address> is the IP address of the machine that will be querying SNMP.
Make sure to use the same community name in your Dell Server Assistant
discovery configuration.

It's all in the documentation (except for the Nahant trick).

Good luck,

Jeff