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Name | Type | Type Instance | Description | Comment |
- | Sensor type | Sensor name | Sensor types and sensor names are not defined and are generated for each sensor individually. | Depends to hardware. |
The ipmi plugin generates notifications when event is received from BMC and exposes as much information as it is provided using notifications:
Event | Description | Comment |
Threshold SEL event received | Notification is sent when SEL event is received for threshold sensors. | Sensor name, sensor type, event severity, event time, event message, entity sensor belongs to and current value are specified. |
Discrete SEL event received | Notification is sent when SEL event is received for discrete sensors. | Sensor name, sensor type, event severity, event time, event message, entity sensor belongs to and current value are specified. |
Sensor added | Notification is sent when sensor is added for collecting information. | Sensor name and sensor type is specified. |
Sensor removed | Notification is sent when sensor is removed and collecting information will be stopped. | Sensor name and sensor type is specified. |
Sensor not present | Notification is sent when sensors becomes present. | Sensor name and sensor type is specified. |
Sensor present | Notification is sent when sensors becomes present. | Sensor name and sensor type is specified. |
Plugin configuration
The following configuration options should be supported by ipmi collectd plugin:
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Ref | Issue | Status |
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| The sample file format is proposed in section 1.1.1.1 |
| 2 | https://sourceforge.net/p/openipmi/bugs/86/ | OpenIPMI library supports only up to 1024 opened file descriptors. If it is assigned bigger file descriptor it causes buffer overflow. On systems that allow more than 1024 file descriptors (ulimit -n) it is advised to load ipmi plugin first before other plugins consume the limit. |