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Freeipmi.plugin

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#1

Hello,

I need to have ipmi graphics on my Centos7 servers, and for that I need to use freeipmi.
By following the instructions at “freeipmi.plugin · Netdata Agent | Learn Netdata”, I have to do a re-install Netdata from source to create the freeipmi.plugin.
I cannot do it this way, as it would affect my operation.

Is someone has an idea to resolve this issue?

Best Regards

#2

You can compile Netdata on another VM and then copy freeipmi.plugin to your production server.

#3

Thanks for the solution, but it is not possible to execute.
In a VM ipmi does not work, so the plugin is not created anyway.

#4

You don’t need ipmi to work to compile the plugin. You just need to install the relevant libraries.

#5

I tried this many times already. With the libraries installed, the plugin is still not created. Because freeipmi does not run on a VM.

#6

Well, I build Netdata on my VM without IPMI support

sudo ./netdata-installer.sh --enable-plugin-freeipmi

The output of the configure script while Netdata is being built:

checking for IPMIMONITORING... yes
checking for
        ipmi_monitoring_sensor_readings_by_record_id,
        ipmi_monitoring_sensor_readings_by_sensor_type,
        ipmi_monitoring_sensor_read_sensor_number,
        ipmi_monitoring_sensor_read_sensor_name,
        ipmi_monitoring_sensor_read_sensor_state,
        ipmi_monitoring_sensor_read_sensor_units,
        ipmi_monitoring_sensor_iterator_next,
        ipmi_monitoring_ctx_sensor_config_file,
        ipmi_monitoring_ctx_sdr_cache_directory,
        ipmi_monitoring_ctx_errormsg,
        ipmi_monitoring_ctx_create
     in -lipmimonitoring... yes
checking for ipmi_monitoring.h... yes
checking for ipmi_monitoring_bitmasks.h... yes
checking if freeipmi.plugin should be enabled... yes

[netdata]$ ls -al freeipmi.plugin
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 271552 Feb 25 10:05 freeipmi.plugin
#7

Thanks. It worked.
I did it again and the plugin appeared to me.

#8

A new problem now!!!
When I transfer the freeipmi.plugin don’t work in all servers…
When the Linux kernel is the same (kernel server 3.10 = kernel VM 3.10) it is working, but it does not work on a different kernel.

Any idea to resolve this issue?
Thanks.

#9

I think the easiest way is to install the kernel you need and then switch to it and compile Netdata.