Reading out IPMI sensor values with Zabbix

[Shawn Badger]

Good information! I have used Zabbix for some time now and love it's
flexibility. I have been using a cronjob to run the IMPI tool and then
output the results into text file and then just have the Zabbix agent parse
the file for the results. It works well so far for me but I only sample
temps, disk drives and temperature every 5 minutes.

On 6/21/07, Bart van Kuik <linux-poweredge at vankuik.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi list, Alessandro,
>
> Recently I installed RedHat AS 5 on a PowerEdge 860. For management, we
> use Zabbix; if you know Nagios then remember that this is supposed to be a
> more user-friendly replacement. I figured out how to configure Zabbix to
> read out fan speed, board temperature, etc.
>
> To read out IPMI sensor values with Zabbix (http://www.zabbix.org/)
> take the following steps:
>
> On the zabbix server, use the web frontend (menu Configuration -> Items)
> to create a new item "ipmi.planar_temp" of type "ZABBIX Agent (Active)".
> Type of value is Numeric, unit is C for Celsius.
>
> Go to the zabbix agent machine. Give the zabbix sudo rights (as root,
> execute "visudo") to execute the ipmitool as root, without a passsword.
>
> Example line to add:
> zabbix ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/ipmitool sdr
>
> Edit the /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf file and add the line (this is one
> straight line):
> UserParameter=ipmi.planar_temp,sudo ipmitool sdr | grep "Planar Temp" |
> awk '{print $4}'
>
> Restart the agent:
> # service zabbix_agentd restart
>
> Go to the zabbix server. Restart it (don't know if this is necessary):
> # service zabbix_server restart
>
> Go to the zabbix server web frontend, menu Monitoring -> Latest Data.
> Scroll down. The following line should be shown after a minute or so:
> ipmi.planar_temp       22 Jun 08:19:25 26 C
>
> At the end of the line, there's a hyperlink to a pretty stripchart.
>
> You can add new lines as you wish; repeating the steps above. The PE360
> doesn't show a whole lot of IPMI information. For interested parties, here
> is my zabbix_agentd.conf which is a text file:
>
>   http://www.vankuik.nl/cgi/wiki.cgi/download/zabbix_agentd.conf
>
> Note that last line. Basically I count all lines that do NOT end in either
> 'ok' or 'ns'.
>
> Also note that this is a test setup. The sudo construction could be
> tighter.
>
> Hope this helps :-)
>
> Bart
>
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