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thomas-krenn / check_ipmi_sensor_v3

Monitoring plugin to check IPMI sensors
https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/IPMI_Sensor_Monitoring_Plugin
GNU General Public License v3.0
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check_ipmi_sensor - Nagios/Icinga plugin to check IPMI sensors License: GPL v3+

Description

With this plugin the hardware status of a server can be monitored with Nagios, Icinga or Icinga 2. Specifically, fan speeds, temperatures, voltages, power consumption, power supply performance, etc. can be monitored.

Requirements

Installation hints

For detailed information, installation instructions and definition examples, please go to:

Destination folder

Copy this plugin to the following folder:

/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ipmi_sensor

Debian/Ubuntu

Install missing lib:

apt-get install libipc-run-perl freeipmi

CentOS

Install missing lib:

yum install perl-IPC-Run freeipmi

SUSE Enterprise Linux

Install missing lib:

zypper install perl-IPC-Run3 freeipmi

Additional

If you are running the plugin locally and not via network, the user 'nagios' or 'icinga' needs root privileges for calling:

You can achieve that by adding a sudoers config (e.g. for ipmi-sensors and user 'nagios')

nagios ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/ipmi-sensors, /usr/sbin/ipmi-sel, /usr/sbin/ipmi-fru, /usr/sbin/ipmi-dcmi

Please check with '-vvv' which commands are run by the plugin!

Notes on ipmi-sel

If you want to clear the ipmi system event log, please use ipmi-sel.

Remote machine

/usr/sbin/ipmi-sel -h $IP -u ADMIN -p $PW -l ADMIN --clear

Local machine

/usr/sbin/ipmi-sel --clear

License

Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Thomas-Krenn.AG, additional contributors see changelog.txt

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.