IPMI network discovery

[IvanBayan]

I have a lot of IPMI devices and i want to monitor them, first i thought that i can use IPMI checks in network discovery like for SNMP, but later noticed that zabbix does not have IPMI checks for discovery. I searched for that functionality in documentation for later version and found nothing, searched for same feature request in zabbix Jira and again found nothing.
I can't believe that i first person who want network discovery for IPMI.
May be i choose wrong way for it? Is there another solution to automatic discovery of IPMI devices?

[Colttt]

hello you can use nmap for to check wich ports are open:

nmap ipmi-server1.my-local.de

Starting Nmap 6.47 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2015-01-21 09:46 CET
Nmap scan report for ipmi-server1.my-local.de (192.168.1.1)
Host is up (0.87s latency).
Not shown: 996 closed ports
PORT     STATE SERVICE
22/tcp   open  ssh
80/tcp   open  http
443/tcp  open  https
5900/tcp open  vnc

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.17 seconds

so here you can see that port 5900TCP is open, also ssh and hhtp(s), so you configure a check that check if this TCP ports are open, if so it is an IPMI-Interface

[IvanBayan]

If we talk about assumptions based on open tcp ports, then better idea to seek for 623 open port, instead of ssh + http + vnc.
Anyway i can't link template to discovered hosts by that way, because i have different hardware and different templates and i need to get something like 'Board Mfg' from 'ipmitool fru print' to match template with discovered hardware.

[Colttt]

so that is not possible by now, but you can create a feature request for this, if you do that please post the request-number

[IvanBayan]

Zbxnext-2674

There it is: https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-2674