It is possible to monitor fan speeds and temperatures on Dell Poweredge servers under Linux. You can achieve this by reading out the IPMI data that is available on the system.
I used the steps on this website to buffer the data gathered by IPMI to use in Cacti.
However, in addition to Cacti I also use Munin to monitor various system parameters. Wouldn’t it be nice to incorporate graphs for fan speeds and temperatures in Munin? I thought so, so I developed a way to do this.
In this case the solution consists out of 2 munin plugins and a PHP script that formats the IPMI values for graphing use. This could also be done directly in the plugins, but since I’m not such an awk and sed expert I chose to let a PHP script handle the transformation, so I’d be done sooner (time is money my friends!).
First up, the PHP script:
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#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
$handle = fopen('/dev/shm/dell.ipmi','r');
while(!feof($handle)) {
$line = fgets($handle);
if(preg_match('/AmbientTemp/',$line)) echo 'tambi.value '.fgets($handle);
if(preg_match('/CPU1Temp/',$line)) echo 'tcpu1.value '.fgets($handle);
if(preg_match('/CPU2Temp/',$line)) echo 'tcpu2.value '.fgets($handle);
if(preg_match('/Fan1/',$line)) echo 'fan1.value '.fgets($handle);
if(preg_match('/Fan2/',$line)) echo 'fan2.value '.fgets($handle);
if(preg_match('/Fan3/',$line)) echo 'fan3.value '.fgets($handle);
if(preg_match('/Fan4/',$line)) echo 'fan4.value '.fgets($handle);
if(preg_match('/Fan5/',$line)) echo 'fan5.value '.fgets($handle);
if(preg_match('/Fan6/',$line)) echo 'fan6.value '.fgets($handle);
if(preg_match('/PlanarTemp/',$line)) echo 'tplan.value '.fgets($handle);
if(preg_match('/RiserTemp/',$line)) echo 'trise.value '.fgets($handle);
}
fclose($handle);
?>
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With the SHM values now being prefixed with matching Munin values, we can graph them in 2 plugins:
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#!/bin/sh
if [ '$1' = 'autoconf' ]; then
if [ -r /dev/shm/dell.ipmi ]; then
echo yes
exit 0
else
echo no
exit 1
fi
fi
if [ '$1' = 'config' ]; then
echo 'graph_title Dell 2850 IPMI Temperatures'
echo 'graph_order tcpu1 tcpu2 tambi tplan trise'
echo 'graph_vlabel Temperature (Deg C)'
echo 'graph_scale yes'
echo 'graph_info This graph shows sensor temperatures'
echo 'graph_category system'
echo 'tcpu1.label CPU1'
echo 'tcpu1.warning 80'
echo 'tcpu1.critical 90'
echo 'tcpu1.info XEON CPU 1 Temperature'
echo 'tcpu2.label CPU2'
echo 'tcpu2.warning 80'
echo 'tcpu2.critical 90'
echo 'tcpu2.info XEON CPU 2 Temperature'
echo 'tambi.label Ambient'
echo 'tambi.warning 80'
echo 'tambi.critical 90'
echo 'tambi.info Ambient Temperature'
echo 'tplan.label Planar'
echo 'tplan.warning 80'
echo 'tplan.critical 90'
echo 'tplan.info Planar Temperature'
echo 'trise.label Riser'
echo 'trise.warning 80'
echo 'trise.critical 90'
echo 'trise.info Riser Temperature'
exit 0
fi
/usr/bin/ipmi.php
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#!/bin/sh
if [ '$1' = 'autoconf' ]; then
if [ -r /dev/shm/dell.ipmi ]; then
echo yes
exit 0
else
echo no
exit 1
fi
fi
if [ '$1' = 'config' ]; then
echo 'graph_title Dell 2850 IPMI Fanspeeds'
echo 'graph_order fan1 fan2 fan3 fan4 fan5 fan6'
echo 'graph_vlabel Fanspeed (RPM)'
echo 'graph_scale yes'
echo 'graph_info This graph shows fanspeeds'
echo 'graph_category system'
echo 'fan1.label Fan1'
echo 'fan1.info Fan1 speed'
echo 'fan2.label Fan2'
echo 'fan2.info Fan2 speed'
echo 'fan3.label Fan3'
echo 'fan3.info Fan3 speed'
echo 'fan4.label Fan4'
echo 'fan4.info Fan4 speed'
echo 'fan5.label Fan5'
echo 'fan5.info Fan5 speed'
echo 'fan6.label Fan6'
echo 'fan6.info Fan6 speed'
exit 0
fi
/usr/bin/ipmi.php
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Restart your munin-node, run the munin crons, and voila, graphs!
With these settings they will look like this:
insert image
You can modify the params to change the graphs ofcourse.