13 Monitoring of IPMI devices
1 Goals
There are several goals of Zabbix IPMI monitoring:
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Monitoring of health and availability of IPMI devices
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Remote IPMI based management functions
Remote restart, shutdown, halt, and other commands can be executed either automatically or manually from Zabbix front-end.
2 IPMI parameters
Zabbix IPMI monitoring works only for devices having IPMI support (HP iLO, Sun hardware, etc).
In order to use IPMI monitoring, a host must be configured to process IPMI commands. IPMI agent's IP address, port number, user name and password must be configured properly.
See configuration of hosts for more details.
3 IPMI actions
Two types of actions can be defined:
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automatic actions, which are executed automatically
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IPMI scripts, can be executed manually from Zabbix GUI
See corresponding sections of the Manual for more details.
Data source: Zabbix