Comment by claudex
4 years ago
Enterprise system have monitoring through the BIOS which will send an email, expose the status via SNMP and other method of monitoring (same as having a faulty fan).
4 years ago
Enterprise system have monitoring through the BIOS which will send an email, expose the status via SNMP and other method of monitoring (same as having a faulty fan).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I wouldn't call the management engine (eg. HP iLO) the BIOS. Whilst those may support such warnings:
1) Not everyone wants to use iLO or whatever equivalent another OEM provides.
2) Whilst such systems do support sending warnings about system components via email, dashboards, etc. that doesn't mean they'll necessarily warn about a RAID controller's battery being depleted. If I remember correctly, iLO4 doesn't.
3) What about RAID cards like the P420 (*not* the P420i) that either aren't hooked up to a management engine or are from an entirely separate OEM?
>1) Not everyone wants to use iLO or whatever equivalent another OEM provides.
Then you aren't an enterprise because they're absurdly useful for managing dozens/hundreds/thousands of systems.
>3) What about RAID cards like the P420 (not the P420i) that either aren't hooked up to a management engine or are from an entirely separate OEM?
There's a reason enterprises standardize on a common infrastructure from an OEM that supports everything in the box even though you could go on Newegg and build your own systems for thousands of dollars less.