IPMI feature doesn't work
Hello,
I add an ipmi interface for a host but zabbix-server doesn't send ipmi packets.
I added "StartIPMIPollers=3" in zabbix_server.conf and restarted zabbix-server before adding the interface.
It appears to be working properly, as the following logs show.
Code:
# grep -i ipmi /var/log/zabbix/zabbix_server.log 1745:20250228:120811.875 IPMI monitoring: YES 1859:20250228:120820.276 IPMI monitoring: YES 1876:20250228:120841.571 item "Zabbix server:zabbix[process,ipmi poller,avg,busy]" became not supported: No "ipmi poller" processes started. 1876:20250228:120847.578 item "Zabbix server:zabbix[process,ipmi manager,avg,busy]" became not supported: No "ipmi manager" processes started. 2309:20250228:123102.960 IPMI monitoring: YES 2332:20250228:123103.202 server #22 started [ipmi poller #1] 2321:20250228:123103.202 server #11 started [ipmi manager #1] 2333:20250228:123103.203 server #23 started [ipmi poller #2] 2334:20250228:123103.203 server #24 started [ipmi poller #3] 2327:20250228:123141.276 item "Zabbix server:zabbix[process,ipmi poller,avg,busy]" became supported 2327:20250228:123147.282 item "Zabbix server:zabbix[process,ipmi manager,avg,busy]" became supported
Code:
# grep -i ipmi /var/log/zabbix/zabbix_server.log |grep -i error 2428:20250228:123414.569 query [txnlev:0] [select i.itemid,i.hostid,i.status,i.type,i.value_type,i.k ey_,i.snmp_oid,i.ipmi_sensor,i.delay,i.trapper_hos ts,i.logtimefmt,i.params,ir.state,i.authtype,i.use rname,i.password,i.publickey,i.privatekey,i.flags, i.interfaceid,ir.lastlogsize,ir.mtime,i.history,i. trends,i.inventory_link,i.valuemapid,i.units,ir.er ror,i.jmx_endpoint,i.master_itemid,i.timeout,i.url ,i.query_fields,i.posts,i.status_codes,i.follow_re directs,i.post_type,i.http_proxy,i.headers,i.retri eve_mode,i.request_method,i.output_format,i.ssl_ce rt_file,i.ssl_key_file,i.ssl_key_password,i.verify _peer,i.verify_host,i.allow_traps,i.templateid,nul l from items i left join item_rtdata ir on i.itemid=ir.itemid] 2450:20250228:123418.565 IPMI error: [110] Connection timed out 2449:20250228:123418.566 IPMI error: [110] Connection timed out 2448:20250228:123418.567 IPMI error: [110] Connection timed out 2450:20250228:123421.568 IPMI error: [110] Connection timed out 2449:20250228:123421.569 IPMI error: [110] Connection timed out 2448:20250228:123421.570 IPMI error: [110] Connection timed out 2450:20250228:123424.571 IPMI error: [110] Connection timed out 2449:20250228:123424.572 IPMI error: [110] Connection timed out 2448:20250228:123424.573 IPMI error: [110] Connection timed out 2450:20250228:123427.573 IPMI error: [110] Connection timed out 2449:20250228:123427.575 IPMI error: [110] Connection timed out 2448:20250228:123427.575 IPMI error: [110] Connection timed out 2450:20250228:123430.576 IPMI error: [110] Connection timed out
To isolate the cause I ran ipmitool. At that time, I specified the same IP address as the interface as "-H" option. As a result, ipmitool correctly displayed the hardware status of the specified server. This confirms that there are no problems with the network.
I ran tcpdump and 623/udp packets were sent when I ran ipmitool, but it wasn't sent when I added the ipmi interface.
Finally I tested same thing by compiling Zabbix with specifying open-ipmi option from source code and got the same problem.
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