IPMI connector for Home Assistant

What is IPMI?

IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is a set of standardized specifications for hardware-based platform management systems that makes it possible to control and monitor servers centrally.

Home Assistant integration

This integration allows you to monitor and control servers that support IPMI. It can connect to your servers in three ways:

• via the ipmi-server addon from here which is basically a wrapper for ipmitool.
• via the ipmi-server docker container. See mneveroff/ipmi-server, for instructions. This is basically a wrapped ipmi-server add-on from the previous option.
• via the Python library python-ipmi which hasn't been tested with all servers.

If the ipmi-server addon is installed and started then this will be primarily used, and then it will fall back to the Python library if the addon is not reachable.

Installation

Install it via HACS or just copy the custom_components folder in your home assistant config folder. Restart HASS and then add the ipmi integration.

What does the integration?

The component allows you to configure multiple servers that have unique aliases. For each server that you configure the component will add all available sensors, 5 actions and 1 switch.

The following sensors will be added:

• all temperature sensors
• all fan sensors
• all voltage sensors
• all power sensors (the Python library can't extract these)

The following actions are added:

• power on
• power off
• power cycle
• power reset
• soft shutdown

The switch allows you to turn on the server and shut it down gracefully.

There is a send command service available too, which allows you to send custom commands to the server. This works only when the ipmi-server addon is used.