Description

Gives environmental information (temperatures, fans, etc.) on several IPMI-enabled servers in-band and out-of-band.

Target

Typical platform: Any system with IPMI

Operating systems: Linux, Oracle Solaris, Microsoft Windows, Out-of-Band

Prerequisites

Relies on: IPMI

Technology and protocols: IPMI

This connector requires advanced privileges on the managed host for the command below:

• ipmitool

This connector therefore needs to run as root or you need to configure a privilege-escalation mechanism like sudo on the managed host to allow the monitoring account to run the command listed above.

Sample of /etc/sudoers to allow the above command to be run as root by the patrol account:

patrol ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: ipmitool

Connector Activation Criteria

The IPMI connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all of the criteria below are met:

• The IPMI-related WMI classes are populated on Windows,
• OR ipmitool works properly with the local IPMI driver on Linux and Solaris,
• OR IPMI-over-LAN has been enabled as an out-of-band interface