I just got Debian installed on a new system that has IPMI monitoring support. I haven't used it before, and it's quite cool! I can ask for the status of various fans and disks remotely, and also send the display to a remote computer.
The server is in a colo, so generally nobody is near the console on a regular basis. What I'd like to do is have the system send an email when something goes wrong. For example, if a power supply, fan, or disk fails, the CPU temperature gets too high, etc. I've looked around the various IPMI commands. There's a lot there, and it's not obvious to me what the best approach is for doing this. I was hoping somebody had set up something similar and could help point me in the right direction. For example, do you use scripts to run the IPMI commands and send emails when you see keywords, or log alerts somewhere and scan the logs, or is there something more straightforward? Also, I really like the remote access features, but as I mentioned the machine is in a colo and so there's really not a LAN side that's known to be trusted. How do other people deal with this? Do you just connect the admin port to the Internet, and make sure everything is kept up-to-date and you have strong passwords? Or put the admin ports behind a VPN? Or just not use these features? Thanks again for any experience anybody can share with this! ----Scott. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
