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

[Werner Fischer]

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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