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I have a Dell PowerEdge R415 and R515 and wondering how I can be alerted remotely when a hard drive fails in either server? Both are running RAID, so I need to be notified, so I can swap out the drive. Both servers only have the basic Baseboard Management Controller. Is this possible with a third party tool/software?

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Which OS is installed? Are you not running the Dell Open Manage Server Administrator? – jscott Aug 17 '11 at 18:57
Do I have to install Dell OpenManage on the servers, or is this a client? I am running osX locally, but I can spin up a windows install on vmWARE if needed. – Justin Aug 17 '11 at 18:59
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A virtualized Windows instance would not be at all useful for monitoring your hardware: all it would see is the hypervisor (VMware). – Miles Erickson Aug 18 '11 at 3:19
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Dell OpenManage software will do this for you. I would imagine it shipped with your server, otherwise you can download it from the Dell website

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Do I install OpenManage on the servers themselves, or is it a client? – Justin Aug 17 '11 at 19:02
It's installed on the server support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smsom/6.1/en/ug/html/… – DKNUCKLES Aug 17 '11 at 19:26
And if the servers are Linux? Is there a solution for that? – Justin Aug 17 '11 at 20:12
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You can make the installation very easy if you are running an RPM based distro, have a look at Dells repo page linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/OMSA – HampusLi Aug 19 '11 at 7:59
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If you have a DRAC card in the server that can send out alerts and it doesn't matter what OS is installed in the server. The cards are only a couple hundred bucks or so if you don't already have them and the give you a LOT of remote functionally like web based KVM, remote power up/down, etc.

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I use Dell Openmanage Server Administrator Managed Node with Nagios and the check_openmanage plugin (http://folk.uio.no/trondham/software/check_openmanage.html). And then checking it all via SMTP.

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