IPMI Sensor Monitoring Plugin

Plugin is excellent! Many thanks.

Little hint for somebody who get status critical on HP iLO IPMI, it will be something like: Critical [64 system event log (SEL) entries present]

SEL log can be cleared directly from Nagios host this way:

1) install ipmiutil (this way for ubuntu/debian)
apt-get install ipmiutil

2) run clear for HP iLO specified by iLO's IP address:
ipmiutil sel -d -V 4 -N -U -P -F HP

Hope this can save some time "googling" around ;)

Good plugin, and work great with Centreon in my case.
In my case, I use IPMIv2 and need to add the option "-D lan_2_0" to impi-sensors.
Test command is /usr/sbin/ipmi-sensors -h 10.1.1.1 -u monitoring -p password -l USER -D lan_2_0
And for the plugin :
#./check_ipmi_sensor -H 10.1.1.1 -U monitoring -P password -L USER -O '-D lan_2_0'

Works with this centreon command :
$USER1$/custom/check_ipmi_sensor -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -U $ARG1$ -P $ARG2$ -L USER -O '-D lan_2_0'

But the output of this perl script is not good for graph the differents sensors in Centreon. Maybe I work on this later and post it here.

Regards,
Belgotux

We're using this plugin to monitor SuperMicro and Dell C6100 hardware on CentOS 5 and Scientific Linux 6. Works great, very easy to set up.

hello
thank you for creating this plugin.

i tested the plugin on a ibm x3550 M4 and i get a critical alert stating :
IPMI Status : Critical [DASD Backplane 2 = Critical]

ibm says :
Drive drive has reported a fault. This event must be cleared manually.

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v5r2/index.jsp?topic=/diricinfo_5.20/fqm0_r_events_cim_system.html

i cleared all events in the megaraidcli but still have the message.

ipmimonitoring command says
Dasd backplane 2 entity presence critical , entity Absent

i do not see other events in the ibm managment interface. And there is no alert led

do you have some clues?

Regards

hello,

I setup the plugin and it's needed software as following and it give me some error messages

I install freeipmi v 1.0.5 on the remote server then download the plugin v 2.2, move it to /usr/local/nagios/libexec/
#chown nagios:nagios /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ipmi_sensor

then test the tool
#ipmi-sensors -h localhost -u monitoring -p relation -l user
and it work then test the plugin from the server it self and it work # /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ipmi_sensor -H localhost -U monitoring -P relation -L user

then I install the freeipmi in a local machine to test the remote machine
ipmi-sensors -h remote-host-ip -u monitoring -p relation -l user
it give me ipmi-sensors: connection timeout

then when I try to test it from nagios using # /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H remote-ip -c check_ipmi_sensor -a '-H localhost -U monitoring -P relation -L user'
it give me this error
/usr/local/sbin/ipmi-sensors: permission denied
-> Execution of ipmimonitoring failed with return code 1.
-> ipmimonitoring was executed with the following parameters:
/usr/local/sbin/ipmimonitoring -h 127.0.0.1 -u monitoring -p relation -l user --quiet-cache --sdr-cache-recreate
or this
sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo
-> Execution of ipmimonitoring failed with return code 1.
-> ipmimonitoring was executed with the following parameters:
sudo /usr/local/sbin/ipmimonitoring --quiet-cache --sdr-cache-recreate

thanks and best regards

Hi mj0ne,

thanks for your valuable feedback. The current version 1.2.1 of the plugin supports password files and also ignores 'ns' states.

I added these features in version 1.2:
http://lists.thomas-krenn.com/pipermail/ipmi-plugin-announce/2010-June/000001.html

The current version is 1.2.1:
http://lists.thomas-krenn.com/pipermail/ipmi-plugin-announce/2010-June/000002.html

Feedback regarding the plugin is always welcome! I created two mailinglists:
* http://lists.thomas-krenn.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ipmi-plugin-announce
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Best regards,
Werner (author of the plugin)

Good work in this one, ability to use verbose output(-v1/2/3) to get more data and to use graphs. Author have a nice site for that to.

Missing -f option for password file, but it's coming in later version.

Im missing nagios status control for the diffrent IPMI outputs.

ns(Disable) and ns(No Reading), is still okey on most IPMI clients. Need fixing. They return warning output(nagios status 1).

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