Nagios plug-in for iLO Agentless Management

Nagios plug-in for iLO Agentless Management aims to automatically manage HPE ProLiant servers within the data center. With the help of the plug-in, the administator does not need to configure the nagios configuration file (/nagios_etc_path/conf.d) manually. The plug-in automatically writes the server configuration to the nagios configuration file (/nagios_etc_path/cfg_dir/ilo.cfg, for example: /etc/nagios3/conf.d/ilo.cfg under Ubuntu 14.04) once any of HPE ProLiant servers is discovered within the data center.

Requirements:

• net-snmp
• snmptrapd
• HPE ProLiant Server
• curl
• procmail
• bash
• gcc
• make
• net-snmp-devel {rhel}
• net-snmp-utils
• glibc-devel {sles 11}
• apache2-mod_php53

Features:

1. Discover and monitor HPE ProLiant servers within data center automatically. There are two alternatives to discover HPE ProLiant servers.

   1.1) Active discovery: The active discovery scans all available servers in the network of the monitoring server. This approach can discovery all up and running servers with the data center. This feature is supported started version 1.1.0. Note that this feature is a time-consuming process if your data center has lots of hosts/IP addresses to be discovered.

   1.2) Passive discovery: The passive discovery discovers HPE ProLiant servers once receiving the cold start traps generated by those servers. The traps are generated when those servers get booted successfully, so this approach cannot discover the up and running servers within the data center.

2. Provide the high-level server status.

3. Display the server status in real-time if the status is changed.

4. Categorize the preferred servers into the same host group.

Installation:

Read INSTALL file.

Configuration:

Go to the default folder /usr/local/nagios/libexec on Rhel/Sles /usr/lib/nagios/plugins on ubuntu

The hpeilo_nagios_config auto configuration script will generate configuration file and configure nagios hostgroup by scanning network IP range or network subnet.

./hpeilo_nagios_config

Uninstallation:

Read INSTALL file. Users need back up the ilo.cfg file for later usage before uninstallation. The file could be in /usr/local/nagios/etc/ilo or /etc/nagios/ilo depends on how users install nagios.