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