Dell Servers at 20+ Remote Locations Remote Hardware Monitoring
Hi,
I've got 20+ Dell servers at remote locations for clients and I'd like to figure out a way how to monitor hardware events remotely. All the servers are Dell PowerEdge Gen 9 and newer and all have an iDRAC card. Most are running esxi 5.5+ with server 2012 on the VM's. I've got OMSA installed and Support Assistant Enterprise on the servers that are still under warranty. Basically I'd like something like Support Assistant Enterprise that will run on the out of warranty and older hardware. At this point I pretty much just need to know the status of the hard drives, firmware versions of everything and get some alert when something changes. Ideally I'd like a single window where I can monitor everything from. Any advice would be helpful or at least a direction to start looking into.
Thanks in advance
Perry
I've got 20+ Dell servers at remote locations for clients and I'd like to figure out a way how to monitor hardware events remotely. All the servers are Dell PowerEdge Gen 9 and newer and all have an iDRAC card. Most are running esxi 5.5+ with server 2012 on the VM's. I've got OMSA installed and Support Assistant Enterprise on the servers that are still under warranty. Basically I'd like something like Support Assistant Enterprise that will run on the out of warranty and older hardware. At this point I pretty much just need to know the status of the hard drives, firmware versions of everything and get some alert when something changes. Ideally I'd like a single window where I can monitor everything from. Any advice would be helpful or at least a direction to start looking into.
Thanks in advance
Perry
Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)
SNMP, OMSA, PRTG, Observium, Syslog, vCenter Server Alarms
Dell OpenManage Essential OME.
https://www.dell.com/support/article/ca/en/cabsdt1/sln312494/openmanage-essentials?lang=en
https://www.dell.com/support/article/ca/en/cabsdt1/sln312494/openmanage-essentials?lang=en
I'll +1 PRTG. ManageEngine OpManager as well.
or test drive the new Tech Release, built on the same code as Essentials
Dell EMC OpenManage™ Enterprise Tech Release
https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln310714/openmanage-enterprise?lang=en
We use a multitude of tools, exporting all into a single Syslog and uploaded/imported into Sumologic, where were create Dashboards for SysOps!
https://www.sumologic.com/
because we have not found yet, one single pain of glass, that tells us EVERYTHING we need to know managing service!
Dell EMC OpenManage™ Enterprise Tech Release
https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln310714/openmanage-enterprise?lang=en
We use a multitude of tools, exporting all into a single Syslog and uploaded/imported into Sumologic, where were create Dashboards for SysOps!
https://www.sumologic.com/
because we have not found yet, one single pain of glass, that tells us EVERYTHING we need to know managing service!
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Thanks for the input guys, right after I posted this I started demoing Solarwinds N-Central. It looks like it can do everything I want.
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