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We're looking for tools to be used in monitoring the PERC H800 arrays on a set of database servers running CentOS 5.5. We've installed most of the OMSA (Dell monitoring) suite. Our current alerting is happening through SNMP, though it's a bit hit or miss (we apparently missed a couple of earlier predictive failure alerts on one drive). OMSA conflicts with mega-cli, though we may

Greetings, On 1/22/11, Edward Morbius <dredmorbius at gmail.com> wrote: > CentOS is not a Dell-supported configuration, and we've had little helpful > advice from Dell. There's been some amount of FUD in that Dell don't seem > to know what Dell's own software installation (the md3 > > Dell doesn't seem to have...

I'm looking for suggestions as to a good general method of remote-logging services such as nginx or anything else which doesn't support syslog natively. I'm aware that there's an nginx patch, and we're evaluating this. It may be the way we fly. However there are other tools which may not have a patch for which remote logging would be useful. If there's a general soution

I'm looking for a capability similar to Debian/Ubuntu's pre/post up/down network commands capability. The problem: we've got a colo in which hosts talk directly to the hosting provider's router (through a bridging firewall) and hence our hosts MAC addresses are cached by the router. We should be able to solve this by pinging the router directly when bringing up the interface,

We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to admit. Host / initiator systems are a number of real and virtualized CentOS 5.5 boxes. Storage arrays / targets are Dell MD3220i storage arrays. CentOS is not a Dell-supported configuration, and we've had little helpful advice from Dell. There's been some amount of FUD in that Dell don't seem to know what

We utilize LVM snapshots for some periodic maintenance. They're manually created and, usually, manually destroyed. But not always. So there's now a nightly script monitoring for open snapshots. Which raises the question of when a given snapshot was created. Absent good practices of, say, using sudo to create snapshots (leaving a /var/log/secure message), is there any reasonably

I'm used to Debian-based distros which have a tempfile(1) utility for safely and sanely creating temporary files. There isn't a comperable utility for RHEL/CentOS systems. I've been exercising Google-fu looking for a good robust tempfile generation idiom, but haven't turned one up yet. Hence this appeal to the lazyweb. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist / | Robot