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We have several IBM System x servers, each of which has a "Light Path Diagnostic" (LPD) panel of LEDs. I want to be able to monitor the status of the LPD alerts from Nagios, but can't find where they are exposed to the OS. How can I read the LPD status from the (Linux) OS on and IBM System x server? |
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Management controllers, which control those LEDs, are usually IPMI-compliant. So you would need the OpenIPMI package for Linux and IPMI plugin for Nagios. Configuration may be somewhat server-specific (there are several generations of management chips - BMC, IMM, RSA2, to name a few). Very old (10 years or so) servers may need ibmasm package instead of OpenIPMI. |
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