Adding Service to a Host

[gshergill]

Hi again Nagios Support Community,

I've managed to get the auto-discovery wizard (big thank you for that) and it's all working fine.

The option to auto-discover the services for the hosts as well is great.

The main reason for coming to Nagios XI was the ability to check CPU Temperatures (namely using IPMI).

So I uploaded the plugin at
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... in/details
via the web interface, it is in .tar form.

So how do I go about using this service to monitor one of my hosts?

Thank you.

Kind Regards,

gshergill

EDIT: untarred it and copied check_ipmi_sensor to the folder (libexe).
Added the command to Nagios XI for check_ipmi_sensor ($USER1$/check_ipmi_sensor -H $_HOSTIPMI_IP$ -f $ARG1$)

How do I add this as a service now?

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check_ipmi_sensor -H server.domain
-bash: check_ipmi_sensor: command not found

[scottwilkerson]

you will need to do a couple things.

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cd /usr/local/nagios/libexec
chmod +x ./check_ipmi_sensor

Then you should be able to run it as

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./check_ipmi_sensor -H server.domain

As the readme alludes to, there are some prerequisites, you will likely need to run the following

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yum install perl-IPC-Run

[lmiltchev]

I believe you need to review this document:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ios_XI.pdf

Make sure you test your plugin from the command line first. You can read more on testing your commands from the command line here:

http://support.nagios.com/wiki/index.ph ... mmand-line


Hope this helps. Please, let us know if you get "stuck" on something.

[gshergill]

Hi guys,

Thanks again for the reply.

I had those done and used that guide to test the plugin was working, unfortunately it wasn't.

I restarted the server just now and noticed that the owner of the plugin was apache.... I've changed that now to nagios.

Running the command now retrieves the following result;

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[root@nagiosxi libexec]# ./check_ipmi_sensor -H server.domain
Error: ipmimonitoring command not found

Not sure why it still isn't working.

Thank you.

Kind Regards,

gshergill

[scottwilkerson]

The README in the tarball says the following are required

Requirements:
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o FreeIPMI version 0.5.1 or newer
o Perl
o Perl IPC::Run

I can tell you Perl is already installed, and the command I gave you earlier would install the Perl IPC::Run

You may also need

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yum install freeipmi -y

[gshergill]

Hi scott,

I thought I had installed that already but it seemed I hadn't, thank you.

Is there anything that needs configuring on the FreeIPMI download? Or should the defaults suffice?

At the moment the error is;

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./check_ipmi_sensor -f /etc/freeipmi.conf -H server.domain
/usr/sbin/ipmimonitoring: connection timeout

-> Execution of ipmimonitoring failed with return code 1.
-> ipmimonitoring was executed with the following parameters:
   /usr/sbin/ipmimonitoring -h server.domain --config-file /etc/freeipmi.conf --quiet-cache --sdr-cache-recreate

/usr/sbin/ipmimonitoring is not an editable file, using vi editor it's a collection of symbols.

Thanks again.

Kind Regards,

gshergill

EDIT: Removed EDIT, am testing for sure on a server that is IPMI only

[mguthrie]

Without knowing anything about IPMI, you're looking for a .conf file, and I'm guessing this is it...

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/etc/freeipmi.conf

[gshergill]

Hi mguthrie,

I've seen that file and was asking if there's anything that I should configure in there apart from the defaults?

At the moment I'm looking into integrating Munin with Nagios XI for the IPMI part, however it seems Munin isn't really dealt with anymore.... everything related to it is 3 years old or more, and trying to download a file (ipmi_sensor_) seems impossible.

Hopefully this can be working soon on Nagios without need of an outside software.

Thank you.

Kind Regards,

gshergill

[gshergill]

Hi guys,

With regards to the password, username and privilege level required for;

check_ipmi_sensor

Are these the details used to log in to the server that needs monitoring (i.e. root for centos machines)? Or do I need something installed on the server, such as freeipmi, and these are the details required to communicate with that?

Thank you.

Kind Regards,

gshergill

[scottwilkerson]

Or do I need something installed on the server, such as freeipmi, and these are the details required to communicate with that?

I believe this would be correct.