I ended up using SSH (with public/private keys) to access the remote server and execute ipmitools. It's not my preferred approach, but in light of my self-imposed constraints, workable.
If anyone is interested in the NAGIOS script, let me know. It's a modified version of the one that's out there. Frank -----Original Message----- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnk...@iname.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 9:09 PM To: ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Ipmitool-devel] Accessing ipmitools over network I've scoured the web and haven't been able to find a definitive answer, so perhaps some can help me here. 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 also saw the "-t" option for ipmitools which has something to do with bridging, but it's not clear to me if that's relevant or not. Any clarification on this approach would be appreciated. Kind regards, Frank ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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
