Carsten: I know I can query them locally, but I want to query them remotely via the remote server's main network interface. =)
Yes, I have cheap switches and I could do what you suggested, but I'm trying to keep a clean C.O. in a relatively tight area-- small desktop switches with different cabling runs need not apply. I'm going to see if I can put SSH over the top and SSH to each server and execute the relevant ipmitools commands, but that's not very clean in my book. If someone's looking for a natural extension of the ipmitool project, that would be developing a ipmi proxy daemon with some basic L3 security. Frank -----Original Message----- From: Carsten Aulbert [mailto:carsten.aulb...@aei.mpg.de] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 12:49 AM To: ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Accessing ipmitools over network Hi Frank Bulk schrieb: > I have several HP DL180 G5's that I would like to monitor remotely from a > NAGIOS server using ipmitools. While each of the DL180's has a dedicated > iLO port, rather than wire them up and burn up expensive switch ports, I was > wondering if there was a way I could somehow using the regular network > interface and proxy requests to each server's BMC. Based on the behavior of > "ipmitools -I lan" option, it looks like it's trying to talk to port 623 on > the remote server. Obviously this proxy agent running on the remote server > would need to be listening to port 623 and pass that packet on to the remote > server's open or imb IPMI interface. I've looked at dpcproxy, and that > appears to be a telnet-based interface to a CLI, not a mechanism I believe > ipmitools can use. I'm not sure how the IPMI cards are presented to the system, but can you query them locally, i.e. ipmitool -I open sdr or ipmitool -I imb and create nagios plugins locally, that way you don't need to fiddle around a proxy. However, all this takes away one major pro of a dedicated port, you will not be able to query/power cycle the box remotely if the box is down already. My advise would be, buy a cheap switch and connect the dedicated ports to it. A working 48 port switch costs less than $300 and is far less hassle - provided the boxes are not too far away from each other. HTH Carsten ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
