Plans for Native IPMI Support in SCOM?
Are there any plans to support IPMI based discovery, tasks and other items in System Center Operations Manager in the future?
May 16th, 2012 12:13pm
Hi,
Would you please let us know more details about your requirements, such as what you would discover or monitor?Nicholas Li
TechNet Community Support
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May 18th, 2012 6:50am
As a note there are utilities out there that allow SCOM authors to accomplish the items below. However since there is no native support in SCOM you have to create scripts to break down the returned data into discovery data or monitors/rules etc.
Hardware with IPMI Support Example. Discoveries, monitors, and rules would be targeted at management modules on chassis/blades and would need to execute from a remote location. Effectively the way that network monitoring works today.
Discovery
- Gather chassis/blade information such as IDs, asset tag information, everything that the existing device supports. Provide a module/means to break down individual pieces of information and assign to a property easily.
Monitoring
-Look at sensor data. IPMI exposes a lot of sensor data related to chassis/blade in the example. Provide a means to retrieve individual sensor information and create monitors/rules on it.
-Look at events in logs on chassis/blade in example. Provide a means to remotely monitor logs on chassis/blades (not sure how realistic this one is)
Tasks
-Execute tasks such as power on, power off, reset, power cycle, hard reset, soft shutdown, cold reset etc, flash LED etc.
May 18th, 2012 10:59am
I think you can do this with WinRM.
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May 22nd, 2012 8:24am
I think you can do this with WinRM.
May 22nd, 2012 8:26am
I should have clarified, another requirement is Out of Band support. This must all function by hitting the BMC and not a Windows OS. To your point bob, I believe WinRM is only In Band
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May 22nd, 2012 9:30am
I worked earlier with SCCM and managed computers with vPro/AMT and all was good. Here is a link for example:
http://communities.intel.com/community/vproexpert/blog/2009/12/10/using-amt-remotley-from-a-command-line-with-winrm
You just can create your own tasks, monitors and rules based on this examples. You want to manage computers (vPro/AMT) or devices?
May 23rd, 2012 4:05am
Thanks for sharing bob, however the example is in band (gathering information running tasks against the operating system). I am looking for out of band, taking the operating system out of the picture and just speaking with the BMC directly. I
need to ensure that I am able to gather information/execute tasks on the hardware regardless of whether or not an OS is installed.
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May 23rd, 2012 5:47pm
We support SMASH devices with this template
http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2012/04/02/ws-management-smash-device-discovery-template-released.aspx
May 23rd, 2012 10:29pm
SMASH != IPMI
However, on the SMASH note. Why was discovery for SMASH devices listed in the Authoring section of the console vs the Administration section where all the other discovery takes place?
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May 31st, 2012 11:00am
Granted, they are not exactly the same thing, but they are related - SMASH builds upon IPMI, and I do understand that not all IPMI Interface support SMASH. I was simply meaning that such a template is the only effort I am aware of in that space. I am
not aware of other efforts, even from our partners... but if there is something else, it should be listed in the System Center Marketplace:
http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/home
Now, for the second question: "Discovery" in the Administration panel is a core product feature that is not easily extended out of band. In this case (SMASH), the team implemented a Management Pack template which can be "plugged in" with a management pack
import, that's why it shows under Authoring.
May 31st, 2012 12:10pm
Granted, they are not exactly the same thing, but they are related - SMASH builds upon IPMI, and I do understand that not all IPMI Interface support SMASH. I was simply meaning that such a template is the only effort I am aware of in that space. I am
not aware of other efforts, even from our partners... but if there is something else, it should be listed in the System Center Marketplace:
http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/home
Now, for the second question: "Discovery" in the Administration panel is a core product feature that is not easily extended out of band. In this case (SMASH), the team implemented a Management Pack template which can be "plugged in" with a management pack
import, that's why it shows under Authoring.
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May 31st, 2012 12:11pm