Description

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

Connector file name: MS_HW_IpmiTool.hdf

This connector is superseded by:

• MS_HW_SuperMicro.hdf
• MS_HW_SunHwMon.hdf
• MS_HW_DelliDRACREST.hdf
• MS_HW_SunScSnapshot.hdf
• MS_HW_SunILOMSSH.hdf
• MS_HW_VMwareESXi.hdf
• MS_HW_Director61NT.hdf
• MS_HW_Director5Linux.hdf
• MS_HW_VMwareESX4i.hdf
• MS_HW_Director52Linux.hdf
• MS_HW_ServerviewWMI.hdf
• MS_HW_Director5NT.hdf
• MS_HW_HPEGen9IloREST.hdf
• MS_HW_HuaweiiMana.hdf
• MS_HW_ServerviewNT.hdf
• MS_HW_SunPrtpicl.hdf
• MS_HW_HPEGen10IloREST.hdf
• MS_HW_LenovoIMM.hdf
• MS_HW_Director61Linux.hdf
• MS_HW_ServerviewNTv8.hdf
• MS_HW_HPInsightwbem.hdf
• MS_HW_DellOpenManage.hdf
• MS_HW_IntelBaseBrd5.hdf
• MS_HW_CpMgServNT.hdf
• MS_HW_HPInsightwmi.hdf
• MS_HW_ServerviewWBEM.hdf
• MS_HW_Director52NT.hdf

Target

Typical platform: Any system with IPMI

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

Prerequisites

Leverages: 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 the below criteria 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