Re: [Freeipmi-users] How do I use ipmi-sensors-config output (from remote server) with check_ipmi_sensors plugin in nagios?

[Brandon]

I thought maybe it was an issue with a special character but doesn't make
sense since i can put that password on the command line but not in a file.
Also I see a peculiar behavior in that using the Supermicro IPMI View
utility.

 I can create a secondary user which works from a file when contacting a
server running Windows OS but not Linux. I can log into the IPMI View with
the new user and password from the GUI, but not using ipmi_sensors nor
check_ipmi_sensor (Linux), but that all works on to my IPMI subsystem on
the Windows based server. I need some more machines to try this out on
before I make any correlations.

 So currently,
1-  I can get things to work when reading from a file using an Admin or
other account to the IPMI port of the Windows server
2- I cannot get any user logged in successfully when reading from a file to
my Linux serve, but can
    a- Use check_ipmi_sensor (using -U -P -L for the ADMIN account only -
even if the privilege level is not correct, ie- I put in "user" instead of
Administrator, and case does not matter either ) but not reading the same
info from a file ( -f  /etc/ipmi-config/hostname-ipmi.cfg ) : I get:
           "/usr/local/sbin/ipmi-sensors: password verification timeout"
 error
    b- I can create and log in to IPMI View successfully using a user level
account, which I call "monitoring" , but cannot connect in any way (command
line or reading info from a file) using this account with  ipmi_sensors or
check_ipmi_sensor command from my Nagios server. Here I get
            "/usr/local/sbin/ipmi-sensors:: username invalid"

Perplexed.

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Albert Chu <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 11:48 -0700, Brandon wrote:
> > Hello Al,
> >  I want to thank you very much for your pointer to -x option to the
> > plugin. It works as billed! Now I just have to resolve why I can't
> > gain access while using the -f /path-to/ipmi.cfg and get an error:
> > /usr/local/sbin/ipmi-sensors: password verification timeout
> >
> >
> > But if I use the same info with -U, -P and -L options, it
> > authenticates properly.
> > I read about the CentOS 5 issues, but I am using CentOS 6 on one
> > machines, and Windows on another.Any thoughts there? Thanks again,
> > Brandon
>
> I don't maintain the script, so I can't speak if there's a bug/issue in
> that script.
>
> Does your config file work w/ ipmi-sensors directly?  i.e.
>
> ipmi-sensors -h myhost --config-file=/path/my-ipmi.cfg
>
> Outside of a typo or something, not sure what it could be.  It's always
> possible there's a bug in FreeIPMI.  Is your password along any
> interesting boundaries (i.e. 16 bytes long, 20 bytes long) or has a
> special character in it?
>
> Al
>
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Albert Chu <address@hidden> wrote:
> >         Hi Brandon,
> >
> >         I assume you're using this nagios plugin:
> >
> >         http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/oss/ipmi-plugin.html
> >
> >         There is probably some confusion.  The -f option (you list as
> >         -F below,
> >         I assume you mean -f) is the general FreeIPMI conf file
> >         (usually /etc/freeipmi/freeipmi.conf).  It's not the config
> >         file from
> >         ipmi-sensors-config.
> >
> >         To deal with your problem, most users configure the script to
> >         eliminate
> >         sensors they don't want to monitor.  It appears the
> >         check_ipmi_sensor
> >         script has a -x option to remove sensors they don't want to
> >         monitor.
> >         When calling ipmi-sensors directly, the option is the -R
> >         option.
> >
> >         Hope that helps,
> >         Al
> >
> >         On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 11:30 -0700, Brandon wrote:
> >         > Hi All,
> >         >  I would like to know how I can tell check_ipmi_sensors
> >         plugin perl script
> >         > to update its knowledge of a remote server . It currently
> >         sees that 8 fans
> >         > are possible, and only reads 3 fans working. I have only 3
> >         fans installed.
> >         > The output from the ipmi-sensors-config command shows the
> >         proper number of
> >         > fans ( as does the Supermicro IPMI View GUI utility.) Nagios
> >         however throws
> >         > critical errors showing that 5 fans are at speed 0. I was
> >         hoping I could
> >         > somehow use the output from ipmi-sensors-config --checkout
> >         put into a file,
> >         > and transfer it to the nagios server, and whenever I make a
> >         call to the
> >         > check_ipmi_sensors plugin, send that as a config file.
> >         However, if I try
> >         > and use that file directly as -F $ARG$ argument for the
> >         config file, it
> >         > goes into an UNKNOWN state and complain about line 1 unknown
> >         configuration
> >         > option "Section". Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> >         Thanks.
> >
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> >         Albert Chu
> >         address@hidden
> >         Computer Scientist
> >         High Performance Systems Division
> >         Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> >
> >
> >
> >
> --
> Albert Chu
> address@hidden
> Computer Scientist
> High Performance Systems Division
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>
>
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