Re: [Freeipmi-users] How do I use ipmi-sensors-config output (from remote server) with check_ipmi_sensors plugin in nagios?

[Brandon]

Hello Al,
 I want to thank you very much for your pointer to -x option to the plugin.
It works as billed! Now I just have to resolve why I can't gain access
while using the -f /path-to/ipmi.cfg and get an error:
/usr/local/sbin/ipmi-sensors: password verification timeout

But if I use the same info with -U, -P and -L options, it authenticates
properly.
I read about the CentOS 5 issues, but I am using CentOS 6 on one machines,
and Windows on another.Any thoughts there? Thanks again,
Brandon


On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Albert Chu <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Brandon,
>
> I assume you're using this nagios plugin:
>
> http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/oss/ipmi-plugin.html
>
> There is probably some confusion.  The -f option (you list as -F below,
> I assume you mean -f) is the general FreeIPMI conf file
> (usually /etc/freeipmi/freeipmi.conf).  It's not the config file from
> ipmi-sensors-config.
>
> To deal with your problem, most users configure the script to eliminate
> sensors they don't want to monitor.  It appears the check_ipmi_sensor
> script has a -x option to remove sensors they don't want to monitor.
> When calling ipmi-sensors directly, the option is the -R option.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Al
>
> On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 11:30 -0700, Brandon wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >  I would like to know how I can tell check_ipmi_sensors plugin perl
> script
> > to update its knowledge of a remote server . It currently sees that 8
> fans
> > are possible, and only reads 3 fans working. I have only 3 fans
> installed.
> > The output from the ipmi-sensors-config command shows the proper number
> of
> > fans ( as does the Supermicro IPMI View GUI utility.) Nagios however
> throws
> > critical errors showing that 5 fans are at speed 0. I was hoping I could
> > somehow use the output from ipmi-sensors-config --checkout put into a
> file,
> > and transfer it to the nagios server, and whenever I make a call to the
> > check_ipmi_sensors plugin, send that as a config file. However, if I try
> > and use that file directly as -F $ARG$ argument for the config file, it
> > goes into an UNKNOWN state and complain about line 1 unknown
> configuration
> > option "Section". Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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> Albert Chu
> address@hidden
> Computer Scientist
> High Performance Systems Division
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>
>
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