ZABBIX 1.6 / OpenIPMI / Solaris: NOK

[NOB]

Hi

I would like to test the new IPMI feature of ZABBIX. We have a lot
HP and (new) Solaris systems where this should work perfectly well.

Unfortunately the OpenIPMI sources don't compile on Solaris 9.
I had to change loads of files using stdint.h, another load of files
using s_addr as a variable for a struct sockaddr (replaced by s_addrHHH),
a load of Makefiles with hardcoded values for a certain version of GCC,
and now I see something like &stderr which won't compile, ...

I gave up after one day of fighting.
This means for me, that the new IPMI support is not available for ZABBIX-Server running on Solaris
Or, the other way around: just on Linux and perhaps FreeBSD.

Does somebody know how different the library API of FreeIPMI is compared
to OpenIPMI ?
How difficult would it be to change the API in ZABBIX ?
Will FreeIPMI compile on Solaris 9 ?

Regards

Norbert.

[NOB]

Hi

FreeIPMI is not a solution either.

Although stdint.h is included in the configure checks the result (no)
is not honoured in any source file.

In addition: you immediately notice that the sources have been
merged from two different sources.
One part is requiring gnugetopt (to parse cmd-line options), the other
argp (to parse cmd-line options).

So: thanks for the IPMI additions, but for me it's not working on Solaris.

Norbert.

[Alexei]

It is not ZABBIX fault. All the IPMI libraries are relatively new software, so it may or may not work under older OS. Would you migrate to Solaris 10?

The original post was about IPMI monitoring of Sun and HP hardware!

[NOB]

It is not ZABBIX fault. All the IPMI libraries are relatively new software, so it may or may not work under older OS. Would you migrate to Solaris 10?

The original post was about IPMI monitoring of Sun and HP hardware!

You are right, of course.
Don't get me wrong, we appreciate this implementation very much !
Just because we could use the same mechanisms for monitoring HW for, e.g.
Sun and HP systems.

My post was intended as a hint for prospective ZABBIX 1.6 users on Solaris 9.
I am not sure whether you can compile OpenIPMI on Solaris, at all.
There is no OpenIPMI nor FreeIPMI nor ipmitools package
on blastwave and sunfreeware, even for Solaris 10, regardless of the
architecture (Sparc or x86) !

Regards

Norbert.

[Alexei]

Well, for some reason I am pretty sure OpenIMPI is available under Solaris platform. FreeIPMI and OpenIPMI have absolutely different API, so it is quite difficult to support both.

[andresvia]

Well, for some reason I am pretty sure OpenIMPI is available under Solaris platform.

Please tell us how, I can't compile OpenIPMI on Solaris 10.

[richlv]

openipmi is available... but doesn't seem to compile successfully on solaris 10

at least openipmi 2.0.18 does not. but that is openipmi problem - let's see whether there are any responses to https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?fun...27&atid=416298