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I want to monitor the hardware health, not have my health ruined mine through stress

What rackmountable or blade hardware vendor has the best support for hardware monitoring x86 Linux? We currently use HP servers and blades and the Proliant Support Pack software HP has us install to provide hardware health monitoring is nothing but trouble. broken installs, an ever moving target, random kernel panics... Are the pastures really greener with Dell or IBM's offering? We are running RHEL5 and a few RHEL4 systems. Most of are problems are related to HBA drivers and SAN booting, but that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the headaches I've received from PSP. I'm ready to start evaluating other hardware vendors, but I'm curious if this will just introduce another set of crappy proprietary drivers.

 

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