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

[Al Baker]

How did you chose "Centos", versus Red Hat, Suse, Debian, ?
Was there some key feature it offered that the others didn't ?
Cost ?

Darren Wright wrote:
> Notifications can be done either thru SNMP traps or SMTP.  Insight
> Manager is free from HP, but any SNMP trapper can work with alerts.
>
> The recovery CD is just a build that reloads the majority of the system
> with a static ip.   We backup off site to one of our servers via FTP.
>
> ILO access is an integrated IP KVM.   So you can see the machine boot,
> get virtual media access, etc.
>
> O/S is CentOS.
>
> For smaller systems, RAID 1, and for larger DL380 based systems 0+1
>
> -D
>
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
>> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Al Baker
>> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:02 AM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Had it with Dell Garbage - HP Question
>>
>> 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 !!!
>>
>> Darren Wright wrote:
>>     
>>> One of the major reasons we use DL320 / DL380's is the ease of
>>>       
> swapping
>   
>> drives, and the integrated ILO BIOS level access.    We can support
>>     
> remote
>   
>> sites with ease.
>>     
>>> If a drive dies we get a notification, a new one is sent and a non-
>>>       
>> techie can replace it with guidance.    No onsite visit.   That is
>>     
> worth
>   
>> potentially thousands of dollars.
>>     
>>> We also leave a recovery CD there that can be inserted if we need to
>>>       
>> rebuild the system remotely.   Never had to, but it's worked in the
>>     
> lab.
>   
>>> -D
>>>
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