[iccmac]

Yes, more specific. We will put our servers in a segmented secure network setup where all administration will be made via a portal that only supports windows executables (surprise surprise). This prevents us from using server monitor in the portal aswell as using our client-computers to monitor the servers as our client machines will not be on the same secure segment of the network. And as we already have a monitoring organization here at the HQ our thinking is that we (the mac team) would like to use the same monitoring service as all other infrastructure services use. The monitoring team is windows and *NIX based but their tools (BMC Patrol) does not have a mac agent. So we are going to try to make a script that collects data on our servers about our services and hardware and put this in a log file that the monitoring system (Patrol) can access via some logparser agent over ssh.

Hopefully this makes more sense?

Thanks for your time!
/Håkan

[iccmac]

Yes filewave has a inventory system (Asset Trustee) that we use but we need to connect to the existing monitoring organization that the other teams use.

Have any of you used the ipmitool sensor command on your servers?

ipmitool sensor

Lists all available devices that is being monitored?

[iccmac]

What do you think of making a DNS forward in the network. So all existing client would still connect to old.server.com and all new clients would use new.server.com?

Would this create problems for the clients? Problems with reverse lookup perhaps?

Thanks

[iccmac]

Yes we bind new clients with a script that authenticates against the AD and against the ODMaster inorder to bind the client.

So yes, Authenticated binds!

Thanks

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