Re: [Freeipmi-users] request: status info for discrete sensors for monitoring purposes

[Albert Chu]

Hi Werner,

> Do you have a approximate time plan when you expect version 0.9.1?

I anticipated later this year, approximately Q4.  If you're programming
something against the ipmimonitoring tool, I wouldn't worry about it
working with 0.9.1.  It should be backwards compatible.  I'll release
FreeIPMI 0.9.1 w/ a ipmimonitoring script that will run the right
options on ipmi-sensors to output the same output in 0.8.X.

So you might want to check your eventual script against 0.8.X just in
case.  The output is pretty much the same, except the columns are
aligned for easier readability.

Al

On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 00:54 -0700, Werner Fischer wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 
> sorry for my late answer - I've been at OSDC and had the chance to talk
> about IPMI - I mentioned the possibilities of ipmimonitoring/freeipmi
> there ;-)
> http://*www.*thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/Event-News:_OSDC_2010_The_Power_of_IPMI
> 
> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 14:36 -0700, Albert Chu wrote:
> > Hi Werner,
> > 
> > > Currently I'm using ipmitool for the "Nagios IPMI Sensor Monitoring
> > > Plugin" www.**thomas-krenn.com/ipmi-plugin
> > > But it seems to me that ipmimonitoring from freeipmi has the benefit
> > > that it reports things like failed power supplies in a better way to
> > > parse it for a Nagios/Icinga plugin - I can just parse the fourth
> > column
> > > and report OK back to Nagios/Icinga only when I get an "Nominal"
> > > there...
> > > So maybe I should write another version of the Plugin which uses
> > > ipmimonitoring instead of ipmitool...
> > 
> > FYI, I wrote this plugin for Nagios a long time ago.
> > 
> > http://*www.*gnu.org/software/freeipmi/nagios_ipmimonitoring.pl
> > 
> > Perhaps a decent place to start? (there'll be a new one when FreeIPMI
> > 0.9.1 comes out, although I *think* it'll be forward compatible.)
> Thank you for your tip. Although I'm not that good in Perl this is a
> good basis for me. Maybe I have time in about two weeks to write a first
> plugin-version (in the kind of our current plugin, based on bash/awk and
> support for verbository levels and so on) based on the current version
> of ipmimonitoring, that ships with RHEL/Ubuntu/Debian(Squeeze) - so that
> it works out of the box with these distributions.
> Once I have something in this area, I'll let you know on the
> mailinglist.
> 
> Do you have a approximate time plan when you expect version 0.9.1?
> 
> Thanks and best regards from Austria,
> Werner
> 
> > 
> > Al 
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