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Remote IPMI exporter for Prometheus
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Testing a target #53

Closed jdbarnes-isi closed 4 years ago

jdbarnes-isi commented 4 years ago

Hello, I am relatively new to prometheus and exporters, and I have configured this exporter to get status info from our out-of-band bmc/ipmi targets. The problem I am having is that no matter what password I enter into the "default" module, I get an error stating password invalid\n" source="collector.go:249" If I want to send a curl request to the node exporter to query a remote target, how would I go about doing this? For example, would this work, or do I have to construct a json string in order to test a target before entering it into my prometheus configuration?

curl http://localhost:9290/ipmi?target=192.168.100.1&user=admin&password=password&driver=lanplus

Thank you.

bitfehler commented 4 years ago

Hi, you can curl the exporter, but you cannot pass settings this way. You will have to construct a module, default or otherwise, that has the desired settings (user, password, driver, etc), and then you can curl http://localhost:9290/ipmi?target=192.168.100.1&module=default.

If things still don't work for you, I am wondering if this might be somehow related to #16 - do your passwords contain any special characters, like backticks or such? Could you maybe as a test try to set the passwords to something purely alphanumeric temporarily and see if that makes any difference?

jdbarnes-isi commented 4 years ago

It turns out that it's my fault and the password in the module was not the correct one. Thanks for clarifying that it's not possible to test/troubleshoot via command line alone.