[asterisk-users] Had it with Dell Garbage - HP Question

[Steve Totaro]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Michiel van Baak <michiel at vanbaak.info> wrote:
> On 02:34, Sat 29 Mar 08, Al Baker wrote:
>  > Helps a bunch !!!
>  > One follow up question - out of all of your possible choices for the OS
>  > how did you pick *Debian*.
>  > I 'm not saying is bad, I just know nothing about the particular disto.
>  > and and very curious what
>  > it brought to the table that made you pick over say *RedHat* - where you
>  > can *buy support *or *SUSE* - where you can *buy support*. My fear from
>  > hell is that I' get 50 or 60 of these boxes in, start having kernel
>  > panics, and have no damn body to help except the folks on mailing lists.
>  > Mind you these are often really smart people, very generously giving of
>  > their time, but not quite the say as a manned/paid support organization.
>
>  I choose Debian because I was already using it.
>  And because there are people out there that can help me.
>
>  I dont want the support from suse or redhat because they
>  wont help me when running anything that's not in their
>  repositories.
>
>  For example, if I install zaptel from source, your support
>  contract with them is void.
>
>  I also really like the Open and Free mindset of Debian.
>
>
>
>  >
>  > Thx for sharing !!!
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Michiel van Baak wrote:
>  > > On 08:02, Thu 27 Mar 08, Al Baker wrote:
>  > >
>  > >> How do you get notifications ?
>  > >> Is this thru one of the add on packages HP sells for the box ?  Which One ?
>  > >> Could you be more specific about what you mean by a "recovery CD"
>  > >> and hod do you get console access below multi used to do "recovery ??
>  > >>
>  > >> What is "integrated ILO BIOS Access" sounds cool.
>  > >>
>  > >> What O/S you usin and what made you pick it ?
>  > >>
>  > >> What kind and how many RAIDS are you using. The HP site gave like 8
>  > >> different RAID controllers and like 20 CPUs to chose from.  How did you
>  > >> chose ?
>  > >>
>  > >> Thx for sharing !!!
>  > >>
>  > >
>  > > I'm not the op, but sending a reply anyways.
>  > >
>  > > The notifications come from the HP tools you can download
>  > > for free from their website.
>  > >
>  > > The recovery cd is probably a selfmade installer for their
>  > > setup. At least that's what we have.
>  > >
>  > > the ILO stuff is to give you access to the box like you were
>  > > sitting right in front of it with a physical keyboard and
>  > > monitor, but over IP.
>  > > You can boot the machine, access the cd in your local
>  > > machine etc, even if the box is on the other side of the
>  > > moon.
>  > >
>  > > We use Debian. HP even supports it on their DL380 boxen.
>  > >
>  > > We use the P400 raid controller. Setup RAID5 with 3 disks.
>  > > CPU we use right now is the Intel E5405
>  > >
>  > > Hope this helps a bit.
>  > >
>  > >
>  >
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Kernel panics are usually caused by a change.  Just change it back,
whether that is a hardware or software configuration.  Could be bad
RAM too, but the logs should shed light on what the issue is
"Hopefully".

Anyways, I have been lucky enough not to have a kernel panic in quite
a long time (whatever flavor, in fact, the last time was trying to
install a TDM400P in a Dell 1435), I wish I could say that for
Asterisk core dumping...

Just go with the flavor you like and if support is a huge concern, buy
ABE and take the support role off your hands (as long as you are using
Digium products).

Thanks,
Steve Totaro