Page 2 - Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices; Contents
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 2 Contents About this guide 3 Smart Server Manager overview 4 What’s new to Smart Server Manager 5 Required hardware and software 6 Network setup: suggestions, tips; requirements 6 Tips when configuring on Windows Server OS 9 Tips when configuring on Linux ...
Page 3 - About this guide
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 3 About this guide This guide is intended to be a quick reference for successfully configuring a working Smart Server Management environment across a network of Acer servers. Though it does not go into detail for all of the available features in Smart Serve...
Page 4 - Smart Server Manager overview
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 4 Smart Server Manager overview Smart Server Manager is a free serer system management solution for IT professionals to monitor and receive proactive email alerts in the event of any system failure – be it hardware or software. This powerful solution connec...
Page 5 - What’s new to Smart Server Manager v1.2?
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 5 What’s new to Smart Server Manager v1.2? Smart Server Manager v1.2 includes both a more robust set of functions to previous versions, as well as a more intuitive interface which streamlines important functions, such as email alert creation. The complete f...
Page 6 - Hardware and software dependencies; System processor: 2 GHz; Networking tips and suggestions
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 6 Hardware and software dependencies Minimum hardware requirements for SSM installation are as follows: • System processor: 2 GHz • System memory: 2 GB RAM • Free disk space: 4 GB (May need more disk space depending on the nodes managed and the amount of hi...
Page 7 - Note
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 7 route both BMC and OS networking traffic through NIC 1. This method cuts down on the total number of cables, but can impact the networking performance of the first NIC. Switch from dedicated to either onboard or failover to use NIC1 as both the management...
Page 8 - VPN Server
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 8 When setting up an SSM network, only a single machine needs to be dedicated as the core machine for installing the software. This machine will than act as a central hub for receiving information on the status of all the monitored server systems, VMs and o...
Page 9 - Tips for setting Windows Server OS
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 9 Tips for setting Windows Server OS Windows Server OS is a supported OS in Smart Server Manager v1.2. However, though SSM does its best to provide near seamless integration, some default settings of Windows Server should be modified to ensure ideal monitor...
Page 10 - Tips for setting Linux Server OS; Installation File; Open Linux firewall settings
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 10 Tips for setting Linux Server OS Acer servers certify major enterprise Linux OS SUSE and RedHat. Smart Server Manager is guaranteed to support either, and is programmed to support other Linux solutions, but not certified to do so. When setting up a Linux...
Page 12 - admin; ” and “; password
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 12 Suggested configuration for setting hardware, software and VM performance alerts Smart Server Manager’s email alert system is a powerful tool for IT administrators to ensure they have up-to-the-minute status updates about there hardware and software acro...
Page 15 - users must set “global user account” for auto authentication.
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 15 Virtual machines can be automatically detected and authenticated for user defined IPs and authentication information. To do so, the user should go to “Extensions” in the upper right-hand corner, and select either the Hyper-V or ESX extension configuratio...
Page 16 - Setting email alerts
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 16 Setting email alerts The process for setting up email alerts varies slightly depending on the email alert type which the user wishes to create. Regardless of the alert type, the system must have access to an email server in order to relay any alert to an...
Page 19 - Setting performance alerts for monitored virtual machines
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 19 TIP: It is a good idea to select both critical and good when creating the alerts so that any processes which automatically restart themselves, the IT administration will also know if the restart happened or not. Setting performance alerts for monitored v...
Page 21 - Setting RAID SNMP traps with LSI add-on RAID cards
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 21 Setting RAID SNMP traps with LSI add-on RAID cards For server models with add-on RAID cards, or onboard Adaptec or LSI software RAID, users can enable the RAID software to send Smart Server Manager SNMP traps to alert the utility in the event a RAID volu...
Page 23 - Key in public
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 23 Step2. Configure the SNMP service to make OS forward the RAID SNMP trap to SSM. In Linux, the idea is very much the same, but the SNMP trap function must be enabled in the terminal. The below script is outputted on Red Hat 5.3, for more detailed informat...
Page 24 - mark
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 24 2. Install LSI MSM rpm 3. check if LSI snmp is installed 3.1) xxxx> rpm –qa | grep sas_ 3.2) make sure following packages are installed 4. edit “/etc/lsi_mrdsnmp/sas/sas_trapdestination.conf” Mark original TrapDestInd 1 and IP address. Add TrapDestInd...
Page 25 - SSM Tools
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 25 Finally, the user should configure the email server (refer to SSM User Guide) and set the email rule on SSM so that SSM can send a RAID mail notification out. Go to SSM Tools > SSM Alerting > Alerts > In- Band Mgmt Extension > SNMP Trap Alert...
Page 26 - Setting an Email group alert
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 26 Setting an Email group alert In addition to sending email reports for sensor alerts, performance alerts, SNMP traps and software processes status, Smart Server Manager v1.2 also supports email grouping whereby admin-defined groups can be established and ...
Page 27 - Report manager
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 27 Report manager Report manager allows users to generate reports based on SSM’s own database which they want to export into another file format. The function is ideal for users who need to need to report a problem or pass vital information, such as CPU usa...
Page 33 - Firmware update supported systems
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 33 Firmware update supported systems ASSM FW Update Manager v1.0 Server model BIOS Update IPMI FW Update BIOS Setting Deployment AT110 F2 *N *N *N AT310 F2 Y Y Y AR320 F2 Y Y Y AT150 F2 In Planning In Planning In Planning AR160 F2 In Planning In Planning In...
Page 35 - Add devices to be managed and their grouping priority.
Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices 35 After which, the user will be prompted to configure the rack they wish to setup. This step includes selecting which machines will be managed, the desired power limit of the rack and each managed device’s power grouping priority. Establish a rack and set ...
