Stan, If you have PI, you could set up PI IT Monitor on the third/fourth Ethernet port(s) to monitor anything SNMP can monitor on these boxes. I think there is a discussion in the archives on this, and Invensys does not have a problem with starting up SNMP services on the Dell boxes (please let us know if this has changed, Invensys people). If you don't have PI or IT Monitor, Ipswitch's What's Up Gold is one alternative I have heard of used at Tesoro, and I'm sure there are many competitors in this space. Tim Lowell Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company 19100 Ridgewood Parkway San Antonio, TX 78259 210-626-4929 (w) 210-253-0225 (c) timothy.lowell@xxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of stan Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 1:13 PM To: Foxboro List Subject: [foxboro] hardware monitoring We are doing a job that will have Dell R790 based P90's on it. These machines have various redundancy features, such as dual power supplies, and RAIDed disks. How can we monitor these, so that we get value out of the money we are spending for this? _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave