Nagios plug-in for iLO Agentless Management aims to automatically manage HPE ProLiant servers within the data center. With the help of the plug-in, the administator does not need to configure the nagios configuration file (/nagios_etc_path/conf.d) manually. The plug-in automatically writes the server configuration to the nagios configuration file (/nagios_etc_path/cfg_dir/ilo.cfg, for example: /etc/nagios3/conf.d/ilo.cfg under Ubuntu 14.04) once any of HPE ProLiant servers is discovered within the data center.
1) Discover and monitor HPE ProLiant servers within data center automatically. There are two alternatives to discover HPE ProLiant servers.
1.1) Active discovery: The active discovery scans all available servers
in the network of the monitoring server. This
approach can discovery all up and running servers
with the data center. This feature is supported
started version 1.1.0. Note that this feature
is a time-consuming process if your data center
has lots of hosts/IP addresses to be discovered.
1.2) Passive discovery: The passive discovery discovers HPE ProLiant
servers once receiving the cold start traps
generated by those servers. The traps are
generated when those servers get booted
successfully, so this approach cannot discover
the up and running servers within the data
center. 2) Provide the high-level server status.
3) Display the server status in real-time if the status is changed.
4) Categorize the preferred servers into the same host group.
Read INSTALL file.
Go to the default folder /usr/local/nagios/libexec on Rhel/Sles /usr/lib/nagios/plugins on ubuntu
The hpeilo_nagios_config auto configuration script will generate configuration file and configure nagios hostgroup by scanning network IP range or network subnet.
Read INSTALL file. Users need back up the ilo.cfg file for later usage before uninstallation. The file could be in /usr/local/nagios/etc/ilo or /etc/nagios/ilo depends on how users install nagios.