EnableIPMIOnNetdata

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Prerequites

Build netdata from source, generate deb/rpm.
Install following packages:

lm-sensors libsensors4 libsensors4-dev freeipmi-tools freeipmi libfreeipmi16

Configuration

Enable the freeipmi plugins:

# vim /etc/netdata/netdata.conf
[plugins]
#cgroups = no
freeipmi = yes

[plugin:freeipmi]
    update every = 5
    command options = 

Change the permission of the plugin files so that freeipmi plugin could be run via netdata user:

# chmod u+s /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/freeipmi.plugin

Now restart the netdata service and you could see the ipmi modules exists on dashboard.

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Detailed charts:

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and

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