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Monotoring Redundant Power Supplies using IPMI Tool and Nagios

April 22nd, 2013 No comments

For SuperMicro motherboards which use IPMI, you can setup monitoring of RPS’s using Nagios and the IPMI plugin.

IPMItool is an open source utility to work with the IPMI management cards in some servers. Depending on your particular Linux distribution, you can probably “apt-get install ipmitool” or “yum install ipmitool” to get it. It is basically a command line tool that can be used instead of the IPMI web interface. Read more…

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