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| author | Chris Akritidis <43294513+cakrit@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-11-23 00:16:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Costa Tsaousis <costa@tsaousis.gr> | 2018-11-23 01:16:56 +0200 |
| commit | 1149ce32401c811a429ac1d3311f6676926e7d92 (patch) | |
| tree | 0385c9df3912e00ce4cc26bcfb3d4d751bdc4f38 /collectors/freeipmi.plugin | |
| parent | cfc740a7a2e7b7236ad1378fdb7a73c281cb867e (diff) | |
Sanitize headers and htmlstructure (#4713)
* Restructured html site, corrected header in REDISTRIBUTED
* Added header
* Header updates and restructuring
* Move requirements and runtime txts to htmldoc, by adding a netlify.toml that changes the base directory
* Minor corrections to support the html doc restructuring
* Debugging netlify
* Debugging netlify
* Debugging netlify
* Beautify headers, comment in buildhtml
* Beautify headers
* Sanitize headers and reorganize static html site
* Updated Makefile with moved and created htmldoc scripts
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| -rw-r--r-- | collectors/freeipmi.plugin/README.md | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/collectors/freeipmi.plugin/README.md b/collectors/freeipmi.plugin/README.md index 6d4ad1865f..1cebf54e11 100644 --- a/collectors/freeipmi.plugin/README.md +++ b/collectors/freeipmi.plugin/README.md @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ -netdata has a [freeipmi](https://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/) plugin. +# freeipmi.plugin + +Netdata has a [freeipmi](https://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/) plugin. > FreeIPMI provides in-band and out-of-band IPMI software based on the IPMI v1.5/2.0 specification. The IPMI specification defines a set of interfaces for platform management and is implemented by a number vendors for system management. The features of IPMI that most users will be interested in are sensor monitoring, system event monitoring, power control, and serial-over-LAN (SOL). -## compile `freeipmi.plugin` +## Compile `freeipmi.plugin` 1. install `libipmimonitoring-dev` or `libipmimonitoring-devel` (`freeipmi-devel` on RHEL based OS) using the package manager of your system. @@ -12,7 +14,7 @@ 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. -## netdata use +## Netdata use The plugin creates (up to) 8 charts, based on the information collected from IPMI: @@ -101,7 +103,7 @@ You can set these options in `/etc/netdata/netdata.conf` at this section: Append to `command options = ` the settings you need. The minimum `update every` is 5 (enforced internally by the plugin). IPMI is slow and CPU hungry. So, once every 5 seconds is pretty acceptable. -## ignoring specific sensors +## Ignoring specific sensors Specific sensor IDs can be excluded from freeipmi tools by editing `/etc/freeipmi/freeipmi.conf` and setting the IDs to be ignored at `ipmi-sensors-exclude-record-ids`. **However this file is not used by `libipmimonitoring`** (the library used by netdata's `freeipmi.plugin`). @@ -135,7 +137,7 @@ ID | Name | Type | State | Reading | Unit ``` -## debugging +## Debugging You can run the plugin by hand: |