IPMI Q's

[bobstone]

hey all again.

so when using IPMI, other then the IPMI view program, what can I use to see and log, temp and voltage info, to make sure my psu and cooling are good?

 

[Blue Fox]

It's going to vary from system to system. With some you'll be able to view certain things from your web browser instead of an external program.

 

[O2Flow]

Supermicro has the best client I've seen. Typically I just query with SNMP and graph it using MRTG (writing my own shell script).

 

[bobstone]

hehe, umm, I am really good on a purely hardware lvl, I am I sure I can garner a basic understanding of MRTG ( which I just did as soon as I wrote that line) which lead me to my question/worry.

I found this link about IPMI and MRTG admittedly it is an old link but I would think it still kinda apply ( for my question that is).

I am completely lost on what the guy is talking about, how difficult is it to learn whats going on there.

I gather from what I saw that I would need to figure out fan/temp/ect.. controller names, then write them in a structured language to get the values outputs I would like to graph?

am I on the right track here?

to put another way,

Typically I just query with SNMP and graph it using MRTG (writing my own shell script).

I don't understand much of that line. I've never had to do stuff like that before.

Thanks
Bob

 

[O2Flow]

hehe, umm, I am really good on a purely hardware lvl, I am I sure I can garner a basic understanding of MRTG ( which I just did as soon as I wrote that line) which lead me to my question/worry.

I found this link about IPMI and MRTG admittedly it is an old link but I would think it still kinda apply ( for my question that is).

I am completely lost on what the guy is talking about, how difficult is it to learn whats going on there.

I gather from what I saw that I would need to figure out fan/temp/ect.. controller names, then write them in a structured language to get the values outputs I would like to graph?

am I on the right track here?

to put another way,

I don't understand much of that line. I've never had to do stuff like that before.

Thanks
Bob

Guess I should have explained more. I use xymon, push the script to it using a xymon/hobbit nix client and xymon creates the graph for me (using MRTG).