Request support for remote IPMI

[davidngrc]

it seems like this script is install on a host directly.
but what if the host is proxmox and want to keep it clean, so this script should install in a vm.
possible add remote support?
I think the command is
ipmitool -U ipmi_user_name -P ipmi_password -H ipmi_ip

[petersulyok]

Not sure if I got the idea correctly but I think it could not work like this.
Remote IPMI management is possible (as you suggested) but you need CPU and HD temperature as well from the remote machine and it is not trivial.

I would rather install this systemd service on the proxmox machine (in /opt or in /usr/local folder) instead of a VM.

[petersulyok]

Hi @davidngrc, thinking further on this feature request I think adding extra command line parameter would be not hard at all. Could you please double check if you can read the temperature of the CPU and SATA HD correctly in a VM? I'm not sure if drivetemp can be loaded properly and please compare the temperature value coming in a VM with the temperature of the host machine. Thanks.

[petersulyok]

Adding a new docker support for SMFC v3.4.0 might solve your issue here.
@davidngrc please check it out.

[alexanderek]

Hello!

In my case, the script should work on Proxmox host, getting CPU temperature locally, but HDD disks themselves are in TrueNAS VM. Is there any way to make the script work?

[petersulyok]

In my case, the script should work on Proxmox host, getting CPU temperature locally, but HDD disks themselves are in TrueNAS VM. Is there any way to make the script work?

Let me understand your plan. You are running Proxmox host and there is a VM running TrueNAS with assigned/dedicated hard disks, right? My assumptions is that you may run smfc inside TrueNAS. What do you think?

[petersulyok]

Also, my other idea is to run docker in LCX in Proxmox.

[alexanderek]

Correct, proxmox and vm truenas scale. I originally thought of running this on the proxmox host, and getting disk temperatures somehow remotely from truenas.

[petersulyok]

I do not have experience of running smfc on either Proxmox or on TrueNAS Scale platforms.
I thought docker support might help here, but if you don't access to the host hardware and IPMI interface this could be a issue, definitely.

I will try to understand the issues around these two platforms better.