How to Setup IPMI in XO

marcoi

curious how does this work, dont you need to put in a username and password/IP address for ipmi details. I havent looked at docs or tried this out, just wondering. I think on ESXI i had to setup the ipmi with such details before i could issue power on etc.

nikade

@marcoi said in How to Setup IPMI in XO:

curious how does this work, dont you need to put in a username and password/IP address for ipmi details. I havent looked at docs or tried this out, just wondering. I think on ESXI i had to setup the ipmi with such details before i could issue power on etc.

I am also curious, since I asume authentication would be required before you're allowed to read or write data from iDRAC, we have a read-only "statsuser" to poll from iDRAC with Observium.

But maybe there is some kind of "special" integrated pass-through authentication done since the ipmitool is being executed from the same host.

olivierlambert

Indeed, there's no login, we just call ipmitool from the Dom0. I'm not aware of any write access from there.

florent

@marcoi on xo side we use to show the ip of the ipmi and the sensor. We don't write anything nor use it for poweroff

nikade

Cool, thnx for the info!

Chr57

So to understand it...

To get IPMI info from Supermicro;

Can the Host access the IPMI internally, or does it need to talk to it by the main NIC (sharing IPMI) or do I have to open FW access from the host to the dedicated IPMI interface?

In version 8.3, do I need to install any plugin, or should it work by itself? It isn't now.

Chr57

Tested this and it worked;

[09:33 xcp-ng-01 ~]# ls /dev/ipmi*
/dev/ipmi0
[09:33 xcp-ng-01 ~]# ipmitool sensor
CPU Temp         | 49.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | 5.000     | na                                                                   | na        | 100.000   | na
Inlet Temp       | 24.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | 5.000     | na                                                                   | na        | 50.000    | na
System Temp      | 27.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | 5.000     | na                                                                   | na        | 85.000    | na
Peripheral Temp  | 35.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | 5.000     | na                                                                   | na        | 85.000    | na
CPU_VRM0 Temp    | 41.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | 5.000     | na                                                                   | na        | 100.000   | na
CPU_VRM1 Temp    | 32.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | 5.000     | na                                                                   | na        | 100.000   | na
SOC_VRM Temp     | 38.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | 5.000     | na                                                                   | na        | 100.000   | na
VDDIO_VRM Temp   | 31.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | 5.000     | na                                                                   | na        | 100.000   | na
DIMMA~F Temp     | 37.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | 5.000     | na                                                                   | na        | 85.000    | na
DIMMG~L Temp     | 38.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | 5.000     | na                                                                   | na        | 85.000    | na
MB 12V           | 11.999     | Volts      | ok    | 10.151    | 10.319    | na                                                                   | na        | 13.259    | 13.427
MB 5VCC          | 5.112      | Volts      | ok    | 4.482     | 4.482     | na                                                                   | na        | 5.490     | 5.490
MB 3.3VCC        | 3.229      | Volts      | ok    | 2.952     | 2.952     | na

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!