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authorVladimir Kobal <vlad@prokk.net>2021-11-26 18:54:21 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-11-26 19:54:21 +0300
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parent057519fa0886d58389f16dfeb8be75caae464a7b (diff)
Add a note about pkg-config file location for freeipmi (#11831)
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@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ Netdata has a [freeipmi](https://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/) plugin.
2. re-install Netdata from source. The installer will detect that the required libraries are now available and will also build `freeipmi.plugin`.
+> ❗ In some distributions `libipmimonitoring.pc` is located in an unregistered directory.
+> In that case you should find the file and link it to the standard pkg-config directory. Usually, running
+> `sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libipmimonitoring.pc/libipmimonitoring.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libipmimonitoring.pc`
+> resolves the issue.
+
Keep in mind IPMI requires root access, so the plugin is setuid to root.
If you just installed the required IPMI tools, please run at least once the command `ipmimonitoring` and verify it returns sensors information. This command initialises IPMI configuration, so that the Netdata plugin will be able to work.