HP Proliant DL360G5 / DL380G5 Temperature Monitoring

chrisjrob@gmail.com (Chris Roberts) — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t have the HP Management suite installed on my HP Proliant servers, largely because they proved to be a huge resource hog, but I would like to be able to monitor stuff. On PCs I am used to being able to use lm-sensors, so thought I’d give that a go. Installing it prompted me to install ipmitool, which in turn needs openipmi.

# apt-get install lm-sensors openipmi ipmitool

Then I ran the standard sensors-detect command, accepting YES for all options (I was feeling quite brave):

# sensors-detect

This ended up writing the following into /etc/modules:

# Generated by sensors-detect on Thu Feb 17 18:04:48 2011
# You must also install and load the IPMI modules
ipmi-si
# Chip drivers
# Warning: the required module ipmisensors is not currently installed
# on your system. For status of 2.6 kernel ports check
# http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices. If driver is built
# into the kernel, or unavailable, comment out the following line.
ipmisensors

# no driver for SMSC SCH4307 Super IO Fan Sensors yet
coretemp

To test this without rebooting I typed the commands in succession, but found that ipmisensors did not exist, some googling suggested the module to be ipmi_devintf, and that indeed seemed to work:

# modprobe ipmi-si
# modprobe ipmi_devintf
# modprobe coretemp

So the additions to my /etc/modules now looked like this:

# Generated by sensors-detect on Thu Feb 17 18:04:48 2011
# You must also install and load the IPMI modules
ipmi-si
# Chip drivers
# Warning: the required module ipmisensors is not currently installed
# on your system. For status of 2.6 kernel ports check
# http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices. If driver is built
# into the kernel, or unavailable, comment out the following line.
# ipmisensors
ipmi_devintf

# no driver for SMSC SCH4307 Super IO Fan Sensors yet
coretemp

And then I tested the commands with:

# sensors
# ipmitool sensors

Both of which commands brought back sensible information. Now I just need to work out how to incorporate this into nagios with nrpe, but that can wait for another day.

chrisjrob: sensors

HP Proliant DL360G5 / DL380G5 Temperature Monitoring