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 <ch...@llnl.gov> 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 <ch...@llnl.gov> 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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Freeipmi-users mailing list > > > Freeipmi-users@gnu.org > > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users > > -- > > Albert Chu > > ch...@llnl.gov > > Computer Scientist > > High Performance Systems Division > > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > > > > > > > > > -- > Albert Chu > ch...@llnl.gov > Computer Scientist > High Performance Systems Division > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > > > _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list Freeipmi-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users