Matt,

Observium considers IPMI another component of its system, not a system in itself.  So you have to add the actual system first.

Say I have a server named fooserv.example.com I'm monitoring, I'd set up SNMP on it and set up Observium to monitor fooserv.example.com.

Once that's up and running, I'd click the cog icon on the right side of fooserv's device page, click IPMI, and enter the IP address and login details for the IPMI board there.

Security note: If possible I'd suggest setting up a user on your IPMI board that has access to read sensors, but can't control the chassis or console, so that if your Observium host is compromised you don't have root-equivalent credentials in your database.  However, not all IPMI boards allow this.



On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Matthew Green <mephi@mephi.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,

From the reading I've done it seems that Observium supports IPMI and I've got a Supermicro motherboard I'd like to get stats from.

However, I can't see any way to configure the device, if I try to add devices it only lets me poll over SNMP, which the Supermicro board doesn't seem to allow. 

Other than stating that you need IPMItools installed, the Observium documentation doesn't provide any details about how IPMI devices should be configured. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Cheers,

Matt

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