Re: [gentoo-cluster] Remote administration of a server

[Daniel van Ham Colchete]

On 5/15/07, Brian Kroth <bpkroth@××××.edu> wrote:
>
> Hanni Ali wrote:
> >
> > I would be interested to hear anyone else's experiences with IPMI.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Hanni
>
> I've recently started using IPMI software (ipmitool, ipmievd) where I
> can, but mostly for monitoring disk arrays, temperatures, and things
> like that that aren't available on some systems (nearly all in my case)
> via lm_sensors, ACPI, SMART, etc..  Support for the various chips is not
> great, but its nice to get alerts that the BIOS thinks a disk is dead
> before the other one dies or someone finally arrives in the room to hear
> some server beeping.  That can be a pain to track down.


For storage I'll use 3ware SATA RAID controllers, I'll hope they have IPMI
because it's very good to know witch disk is faulty without having to access
the OS.

I think network booting would probably be your best bet.  In a cluster
> setup machines should only take on one of a couple roles and it would be
> easier to manage a handful of images rather than individual machines.
> Of course you also need to figure out redundancy for your network image
> server at that point.


Everybody seems to agree with you... I already have a memtest86+ working
through a pxe remote boot here...

Curious to see what you go with.


I'll deploy everything on july's last week.

Brian
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Thank you Brian.

Best regards,
Daniel