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Monitoring hardware through VMWare ESXi and Nagios

I have recently installed some VMWare ESXi machines running on Dell hardware.  These are pretty standard PowerEdge 2850 and 2950 servers.

One of the big problems on ESXi is how to monitor the health of the hardware when using ESXi.
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Posted on November 28th, 2008 by admin  |  1 Comment »

mpt-status failure after linux kernel upgrade

Oh the pain!

So Debian Etch needs another kernel image upgrade, which I dutifully performed and rebooted the system and mpt-status stopped working!  I only noticed the problem when I got a warning alert SMS from Nagios, upon further investigation (using mpt-status autoload) I got this error message:-
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by admin  |  No Comments »

Dell Openmanage on Linux Debian

If you have ever tried to get any Hardware Management software running for a major vendor (i.e. Dell or HP) for any Linux system other than Redhat you will have no doubt endured some considerable pain……hopefully, you have found this post and it may have eased that pain somewhat :) .
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by admin  |  14 Comments »