replacement for ems - hardware monitoring on RHEL4/RHEL5

[Terry L Johnson]

As we bring linux suites into our enterprise we need a functional replacement for EMS (hp-ux and integrated into OpenView). The overhead is a consideration because of our real-time requirements. BTW our linux systems are all 64-bit

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

The functional equivalent for EMS is snmp.

Beyond that there are number of open source rpms you can install to do the job though it won't look anything like EMS.

Thats an example, the source can be rebuilt with rpmbuild.
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/dag/fedora/1/i386/hardware-monitor-applet-1.0.1-1.1.fc1.dag.i386.html

Here is a search that provides links to some professionally provided services/software.

http://resources.linuxinsider.com/search/keyword/linuxinsider/Hardware%20Monitor%20Linux%20Hardware/Hardware%20Monitor%20Linux%20Hardware

SEP

[dirk dierickx]

You'll have to keep a close eye on the syslog. Linux will log a lot of system events into it, otherwise there are a bunch of tools available like lm_sensors (http://www.lm-sensors.org/).
Bundle this with a monitoring management tool like monit (http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/) and you should be covered.

If you're looking for a all-in-one package, it doesn't exist.

[Heironimus]

A lot of vendors supply hardware monitoring agents for their server-oriented products. If you're using self-built, white-box, or desktop machines as servers you'll probably have to roll your own solution by scraping logs and running smartmontools (or whatever array diagnostics match your hardware).

HP Proliants use Insight Agents, which use SNMP. Dell has OpenManage server and agents, which as far as I can tell don't use SNMP in the current version. I can't speak to the specifics of other vendors.

[Andrew Merritt_2]

Hi Terry,
If you mean your systems are Itanium based (ia64), then there is the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux (HPIEFPL) which includes the IM Agents for monitoring the hardware and integrating with HP-SIM and System Management Homepage (SMH). They are SNMP based, so should integrate with OV too.

They can be downloaded from https://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=T2387AA , if they are not already installed.

Andrew

[Terry L Johnson]

Thanks guys, I'm using the IM agents but looking for more so I'm trying some of the Net-snmp extensions. Now if I can just get the DIS event mib to trigger my traps....