Cannot use IPMI Tool to access HP ILO on same machine

[Nucker]

Hi there, so I'm trying to use IPMI tool to retrieve information from my HP ILO on the machine. I run

ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.0.240 -U nucker -P mypass sdr list

and this runs fine on every other machine in my house. However running it on my server (both in an LXC container and on the bare machine) it times out. I can also not curl the dashboard. Any ideas why I cannot access it?

 

[oguz]

hi,

However running it on my server (both in an LXC container and on the bare machine) it times out. I can also not curl the dashboard. Any ideas why I cannot access it?

it sounds like a networking problem (if you can't curl the dashboard).

though from the host you should be able to see the IPMI device in /dev/ipmi0.
if it's there, then maybe you can execute something like: ipmitool -d 0 sdr list

hope this helps!

 

[Nucker]

I can see all the sensors! How can I use this with IPMI telegraf?

 

[oguz]

I can see all the sensors! How can I use this with IPMI telegraf?

i'm not sure, but it looks like if you configure the telegraf without any server for IPMI it should query the local device

 

[Nucker]

You don't know how I would go about configuring it like this

 

[oguz]

You don't know how I would go about configuring it like this

you would have to check the telegraf documentation for that