Andy,

We can poll your BMC via SNMP as well (at least recent ILO and DRAC) but that will be a separate device, then. There's currently no way to link that to "the same server". Every device in Observium is separate.

The IPMI settings poll your BMC via the IPMI protocol instead of SNMP. If you enter the correct hostname and credentials into the server's properties, the poller will gather sensor data via IPMI and display it on the same "server" webinterface.

You'll need correct username and password and network level access to the IPMI port then, and the ipmitool program installed on your Observium machine.

Third way to do it is to add the ipmi unix-agent script to your monitored server and your sensors will also show up ;-)

Tom

On 7/19/2018 10:51 AM, Andrew Lemin wrote:

Hi,

This is great, I didn’t realise that Observium would collate the data from both the OS SNMP daemon and the IPMI’s SNMP daemon!

What are the requirements between the two IP addresses (one for the OS, and one for the IPMI) so ensure that Observium realises they are the same host?

The hostnames cannot be exactly identical obviously as they each need their own unique IP, and configuring the IPMI engine beyond just turning it on and enabling an ACL has limited success.

Thanks, Andy.

*From: *"Storer, Darren" darren.storer@gmail.com *Reply-To: *Observium observium@observium.org *Date: *Thursday, 19 July 2018 at 00:08 *To: *Observium observium@observium.org *Subject: *Re: [Observium] What is the IPMI settings for?

Hi Simon,

As Adam said, IPMI can expose additional useful sensor data that servers don't reveal via SNMP - similar to the environmental data that is often returned over SNMP by routers and switches:

cid:ii_jjrqip9v0_164afa3f6bef8294

Observium collates SNMP and IPMI data from the same server and presents it all via one coherent web interface.

(Hopefully the screenshot image above can be seen)

Regards

Darren

On 17 July 2018 at 15:52, Simon Mousey Smith <simonsmith5521@gmail.com mailto:simonsmith5521@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All

This is going to sound like a complete daft question

But whats the IPMI settings for under the properties of a server?

I understand that IPMI is to restart server remotely, control, etc…

But not sure what information it will get/help with in observium?

Regards

Simon - Hestor
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