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centeralized server management solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mehmet Akcin)
Sat Feb 20 14:30:18 2010
From: Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:29:38 -0600
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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...so few months ago I was wondering which vendor to pick that has the =
best global delivery experience and deliver quality product..
after few weeks of research decided to go with Dell.
There are few options for centralized management such as pushing images, =
backing up, restoring/re-installing servers for Dell servers using DRAC =
cards.
KACE which recently was bought by dell is one option, Dell OpenManage =
seems another option with less options available.
What are your thoughts / suggestions on centralized management solutions =
for Dell servers with DRAC cards?.
Few things to keep in mind.=20
Centralized solution and server wont be on the same network , but each =
will have internet access
Drac cards come with Compact Flash cards
Bandwidth may not be quite fast and latency might be higher when =
connecting to the centralized solution.
Monitoring can be apart from the server maintenance solution as I =
already primarily use cacti/nagios/IMapper.
appreciate help on this.
Mehmet
