# Monitor multiple hosts with freeipmi?

**URL:** <https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-multiple-hosts-with-freeipmi/3218>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [August 22, 2022, 9:59am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-multiple-hosts-with-freeipmi/3218 "2022-08-22T09:59:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Forza](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/forza/32/1945_2.png) [@Forza](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Forza)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 9:59am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-multiple-hosts-with-freeipmi/3218/1 "2022-08-22T09:59:54Z")

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Hi,

Is it possibleto multiple networkworked hosts with the freeipmi.plugin ? Currently it defaults to monitor localhost only, but the config does seem to allow for specifying a remote host. How would I specify multiple remote hosts?

> **[freeipmi.plugin | Learn Netdata](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/freeipmi.plugin/)**
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> Netdata has a freeipmi plugin.

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**Author:** ![vlvkobal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/vlvkobal/32/219_2.png) [@vlvkobal](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/vlvkobal)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 10:22am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-multiple-hosts-with-freeipmi/3218/2 "2022-08-22T10:22:53Z")

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You can specify a remote host. Use `command options` in the `[plugin:freeipmi]` section. You can’t specify multiple hosts though.

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**Author:** ![Forza](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/forza/32/1945_2.png) [@Forza](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Forza)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 10:33am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-multiple-hosts-with-freeipmi/3218/3 "2022-08-22T10:33:29Z")

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Thanks for confirming. This is a shame, as I can’t run netdata on some of the hosts I want to monitor, but there is IMPI that could have been used.

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**Author:** ![vlvkobal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/vlvkobal/32/219_2.png) [@vlvkobal](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/vlvkobal)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 9:30am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-multiple-hosts-with-freeipmi/3218/4 "2022-08-23T09:30:08Z")

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You can make a trick. Create as many shell scripts in `/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d` as you need each of them running the freeipmi plugin with different options. The scripts should end with the `.plugin` suffix.

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**Author:** ![Forza](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/forza/32/1945_2.png) [@Forza](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Forza)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitor-multiple-hosts-with-freeipmi/3218/5 "2022-08-25T16:31:11Z")

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Thanks for that suggestion. I’ll test it ASAP. 🙂