How to Setup IPMI in XO

marcoi

Just to add more data.
Xen Orchestra, commit 56b17
Master, commit 56b17
All patches on host are done.

the ipmitool works on my asrock MB but i dont see it in XO host screen.
I also didnt see it on xo6 interface.

olivierlambert

Hi,

Each vendor got a different way to display their IPMI stats, so it needs a specific code in XO to display it. Sadly, it's not universal. There's no Asrock support yet.

acebmxer

@marcoi said:
the ipmitool works on my asrock MB but i dont see it in XO host screen.
I also didnt see it on xo6 interface.

@olivierlambert

Is ipmi data supposed to show in v6 on support systems or not yet. I dont see ipmi data for my dell servers at work in v6 only v5.

olivierlambert

Not yet, I think it's already planned, check https://feedback.vates.tech

Pilow

@olivierlambert said:

no Asrock support yet

nor HPE servers (yet...)

Andrew

@olivierlambert I would think HP servers would be a top tier for IPMI support.... please...

olivierlambert

Go for https://feedback.vates.tech/ and create one and upvote then We'll put it in the backlog. More votes = higher prio!

Pilow

@olivierlambert https://feedback.vates.tech/posts/52/ipmi-for-hpe-servers

go vote all of you !

CodeMercenary

I have two PE R630 and one PE R730xd. The two R630s show the IPMI data in XO but the R730xd does not. If I run ipmitool sensor from an ssh session, I get very similar data back on the 730 and 630.

This isn't critical to me, just letting you know that there are cases that functioning ipmitool on a Dell does not seem to be enough to show it.

There are some differences in the labels. The R730 has "Fan1 RPM", "Fan2 RPM" while the R630 has "Fan1A", "Fan2A", "Fan1B". Most of the other interesting fields seem to have the same names but the order is a bit different and I didn't do an exhaustive comparison.

It's very cool that you are surfacing this data now.

Andrew

Come on everyone! Click Here to vote to support HP IPMI info in XO!

Andrew

@olivierlambert With the new IPMI plugin for XO I was hoping to see support for HP servers. But at least it seems I can add it to my installation and then post my results.

I added "hp" as a vendor and all of the plugin settings (if you leave it blank there is an error when saving).

But I still see no sensor data for the hosts in XO.

Any thoughts on what I should add? check? do? to make it work?

Andrew

I found the first step. It's looking for the vendor as the whole name proliant dl360p gen8

Then I have a few working, and several that don't.

Works: Total Power, CPUs Temp, Fans Speed.

All-Ki

@Andrew Hi, i'm the one that made the plugin, the documentation is in progress. Meanwhile, can you post the result of running
ipmitool sdr list ? You might find some leads as to which regexes should work for your particular host.
Also you can check ipmitool lan print (be carefull not to share ip's or sensitive info ).

MajorP93

@All-Ki Thanks for your work on that plugin!

This is the ipmitool sdr list output on one of my Supermicro based XCP-ng hosts, how can I derive the correct plugin settings (regex) from that?

[13:36 xcpng01 ~]# ipmitool sdr list
CPU Temp         | 59 degrees C      | ok
System Temp      | 30 degrees C      | ok
Peripheral Temp  | 29 degrees C      | ok
M2NVMeSSD Temp1  | no reading        | ns
VRMCpu Temp      | 31 degrees C      | ok
VRMSoc Temp      | 43 degrees C      | ok
VRMABCD Temp     | 34 degrees C      | ok
VRMEFGH Temp     | 36 degrees C      | ok
DIMMA1 Temp      | 36 degrees C      | ok
DIMMB1 Temp      | 35 degrees C      | ok
DIMMC1 Temp      | 34 degrees C      | ok
DIMMD1 Temp      | 33 degrees C      | ok
DIMME1 Temp      | 38 degrees C      | ok
DIMMF1 Temp      | 37 degrees C      | ok
DIMMG1 Temp      | 36 degrees C      | ok
DIMMH1 Temp      | 34 degrees C      | ok
FAN1             | no reading        | ns
FAN2             | 4200 RPM          | ok
FAN3             | no reading        | ns
FAN4             | no reading        | ns
FAN5             | no reading        | ns
FANA             | 3600 RPM          | ok
FANB             | 3600 RPM          | ok
12V              | 12,05 Volts       | ok
5VCC             | 5,02 Volts        | ok
3.3VCC           | 3,33 Volts        | ok
VBAT             | 0x04              | ok
VDDCR            | 1,11 Volts        | ok
VMEMABCD         | 1,23 Volts        | ok
VMEMEFGH         | 1,22 Volts        | ok
VDD_5_DUAL       | 5,16 Volts        | ok
VDD_33_DUAL      | 3,28 Volts        | ok
SOCRUN           | 0,87 Volts        | ok
SOCDUAL          | 0,89 Volts        | ok
Chassis Intru    | 0x00              | ok
PS1 Status       | 0x01              | ok
PS2 Status       | 0x01              | ok

Thanks and best regards

MajorP93

For my fellow Supermicro enjoyers: I was able to get the plugin to show some information.
Even if there are some parts missing it is better than nothing in my opinion.

Go to settings --> plugins --> ipmi-sensors --> "+" --> Add --> Fill information and add the vendor string as well as the Sensor Reg Ex.

Hope this helps.

Best regards

marcoi

i see the sensor info when i run ipmitool sensor on the server. So i took that info and put it into pluggin reg settings.

pluggin

my host shows OEM generic info as manufactor

So am I doing something wrong to get the general stuff working on asrock motherboard?

MajorP93

@marcoi I found out what to enter for "vendor" by running "dmidecode -s system-product-name" on one of my XCP-ng hosts:

[15:45 xcpng01 ~]# dmidecode -s system-product-name
Super Server

//EDIT: in your case it looks like you should enter "To Be Filled By O.E.M." for vendor. Not "To Be Filled By O.E.M. (To Be Filled By O.E.M.)"

marcoi

@MajorP93 said:

dmidecode -s system-product-name

that fixed it

All-Ki

@MajorP93 Nice job, i'm thinking about working on an api route to have those infos without needing to go to the server console

CodeMercenary

I got my R730 working, thanks to @majorp93 giving the tip about dmidecode. Thanks a bunch. It turns out that while this is a Dell R730, it was actually sold by a different vendor for use as video storage so the internal product name doesn't have Dell in it, it's HD NVR. I used that as the vendor field and tweaked a couple other plugin settings and now it gives me data.

I am still missing two of the values in the UI and I'm not sure why, but for different reasons.

On my R630 servers they show the server IP address under the IPMI badge. They also both have the default Dell /^ip address$/i as the regex in the ip setting in the plugin. I used that same regex in the R730 and I can see in the ipmitool listing that it has the same field name for the IP address as the R630, yet it shows IPMI: Unknown.

Also confusing is that the R630 servers have nothing under fanStatus in the plugin settings but they show 14x fans status: ✅ in the UI. The R730 also has nothing under the plugin settings fanStatus field but it has no data in the UI. Looking at the ipmitool output I am not sure what field it would use for fan status. It makes me think there must be a default field name it is trying with the R630 to get that status but that doesn't work with the R730.

Any hints about how to get those last two badges to work on the R730?

I am also not sure what bmcStatus should be set to. I don't know what that means exactly so I don't know if any of the fields shown in ipmitool are applicable.

This plugin is really cool, thank you so much for building it.