Unsolved Hardware Management Solutions
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Shoot from the hip answer is Zabbix... lots of plugins and config options. Could probably have a PI or NUC as a proxy / collector at each site or have the devices setup for active monitoring (if supported).
Don't have any HP servers to test with but the Zabbix site appears to have official templates for HPE gear.
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@notverypunny yeah I thought about that, but for my specific need it may not work.
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@dustinb3403 said in Hardware Management Solutions:
@notverypunny yeah I thought about that, but for my specific need it may not work.
Too bad. Technical reasons or "political" reasons if you don't mind my asking?
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@notverypunny said in Hardware Management Solutions:
@dustinb3403 said in Hardware Management Solutions:
@notverypunny yeah I thought about that, but for my specific need it may not work.
Too bad. Technical reasons or "political" reasons if you don't mind my asking?
Technical
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@dustinb3403 said in Hardware Management Solutions:
@notverypunny said in Hardware Management Solutions:
@dustinb3403 said in Hardware Management Solutions:
@notverypunny yeah I thought about that, but for my specific need it may not work.
Too bad. Technical reasons or "political" reasons if you don't mind my asking?
Technical
So, since I'm too full of steak and potatoes to be productive around the house.... You know the crowd and we're always more than willing to try to figure out a way around a technical challenge.... Just trying to figure out what would be easier from a technical standpoint with a commercial / proprietary solution vs Zabbix... I have to admit that I've got 0 experience or knowledge with regards to the HP ILO, but assuming that it's similar in implementation and functions to the Dell iDRAC your options are probably to have the boxes actively shipping logs and alerts to something, have something polling the box and collecting data or a combination of the 2..... Worked for a short spell doing support and monitoring using one of the HPE solutions, can't recall which but it was a clunky SOB from a user standpoint, I can only imagine what it must have been like to configure and admin.... So yeah... feed us details and we'll see what happens
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So whatever the solution would be would have to be centrally managed and support different customers. Zabbix I know can support different hardware. Which that isn't the issue so much as is how would be ensure client data isn't intermingling.
Also to not forget it should only be for reporting on hardware health, bad drive, array issues, firmware statuses etc. While a tool that would allow me to manage (update stuff etc) would be amazing, it likely adds way more complexity than is required.
The end result is a tool that will report on different hardware health statuses, to a central location and then kick off an email so I could work on whatever the hardware issue is.
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@dustinb3403 How severe is the data isolation requirement? From a view / workflow / alerting standpoint things can be broken out by client / site etc with maps and / or dashboards but yeah, most of the centralized logger / ticketing / MSP / rmm-y type solutions will use a common database behind the scenes. From a data isolation standpoint, if you've got multiple clients and sites pushing to a common email address there's the same potential for data intermingling in that common repository as a shared database.... Just some food for thought.
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@notverypunny said in Hardware Management Solutions:
@dustinb3403 How severe is the data isolation requirement? From a view / workflow / alerting standpoint things can be broken out by client / site etc with maps and / or dashboards but yeah, most of the centralized logger / ticketing / MSP / rmm-y type solutions will use a common database behind the scenes. From a data isolation standpoint, if you've got multiple clients and sites pushing to a common email address there's the same potential for data intermingling in that common repository as a shared database.... Just some food for thought.
It's a semi-quazy requirement that the data at least be separated into their own "customer". While overlap is expected, I can't have system Y from one customer populate details or mix with Customer B.
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And by Overlap I mean "customer A and Customer Y both have Server HL DL 380 Gen9" would be the simple things that would be okay to have presented in a landing page.
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@dustinb3403 said in Hardware Management Solutions:
@notverypunny said in Hardware Management Solutions:
@dustinb3403 How severe is the data isolation requirement? From a view / workflow / alerting standpoint things can be broken out by client / site etc with maps and / or dashboards but yeah, most of the centralized logger / ticketing / MSP / rmm-y type solutions will use a common database behind the scenes. From a data isolation standpoint, if you've got multiple clients and sites pushing to a common email address there's the same potential for data intermingling in that common repository as a shared database.... Just some food for thought.
It's a semi-quazy requirement that the data at least be separated into their own "customer". While overlap is expected, I can't have system Y from one customer populate details or mix with Customer B.
That shouldn't be possible.... I'll hope that someone else can chime in, but since each host in Zabbix has a discrete configuration I would expect that even if there are overlapping IP ranges there shouldn't be any way for cross-contamination.
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@dustinb3403 said in Hardware Management Solutions:
@hobbit666 said in Hardware Management Solutions:
What hardware we talking about? Manufacturers models etc
Basically looking to get hardware details from HPE servers (mostly). ILO obviously would work and report on this, but when having any more than a handful of systems configuring and maintaining this would be painful.
Why is it painful to configure and maintain? You need ILO to have full remote control. If you don't have ILO, you don't have full control.
If you manage the hardware and don't have ILO, you will need remote hands. Or you're in an environment where someone else manages the hardware for you. For instance on cloud servers.
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I use PRTG. https://www.paessler.com/es/prtg
Very easy to implement, You can have notifications in your smartphone.
