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gcombe74

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January 14th, 2007 14:00

New Setup -- James C please reply

Ok...   I will give the short version.     I have 30 dell servers...  1750, 1850, 2850, 1950, 2950  ext...
 
We had  Dell techincal rep on site last week (looking at virtualization) and I would like to implement IT assistant and have it monitor my servers. 
 
I have read most of the docs and have it (IT Assistant) installed on one machine.    Have to be honest.  I am not clear what is supposed to be running on the servers that talk to the server. 
 
I guess what would be nice is a clear idea of what I need.   the docs are a tad confusing.  And really never outline this clearly.     Does sever manager have to be running on these other servers?  Or just the omcc?  
 
Thanks
Glen
 

gcombe74

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January 15th, 2007 16:00

Jay
 
Thanks for the reply.    I figured as much on the VMS.   But one last issue.    I run linux on about 80% of my servers.    I dont run redhat or suse.    I run Gentoo linux.    Which rpm would you recommend me trying to get to work on my systems?   can you add the link as well.
 
 
 
Thanks
Glen

DELL-JamesC

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January 15th, 2007 16:00

Glen:  In order for IT Assistant to monitor systems they must have our instrumentation.  For servers this means installing Server Administrator.  Then ITA can talk to our agents via SNMP and or CIM.  ITA ONLY monitors Dell instrumented devices.  See here: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smitasst/8.0.1/en/ug/planning.htm#1043338 
The problem with Virtual Machines is that they are not Dell Servers therefore Server Administrator cannot be installed on them. 
 
ITA can monitor your base VMWare Server but not the VMs
 
If you do plan on deploying alot of production VMs then you should consider another industry standard monitoring solution such as Altiris http://www.altiris.com/Partners/AlliancePartners/DellAlliancePartner.aspx

Message Edited by DELL-JamesC on 01-15-200712:44 PM

DELL-JamesC

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January 15th, 2007 17:00

It's not a supported OS for OMSA but some users have made it work.  Here are some of the posts on the Dell Linux Mailing List
 
There is an RPM folder in the tarball and here is how you do a custom install of the rpms
 
At minimum you will need all RPMs from the srvadmin-base directory.

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