SuperMicro SuperoDoctor sensors -- update June 21, 2009

ehall · Cacti User Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 237

I have been working to get different kinds of hardware monitoring working in a consistent manner. This is the SuperMicro SuperoDoctor sensors package.

Here is what the final result looks like for one of my systems, and shows the fan speeds, thermal probe temperatures, and voltage levels for all of the available sensors on that server:

There are some caveats here. Obviously, you must have the Superodoctor SNMP extensions installed and working. I have tested this with SuperoDoctor III running on Windows Server 2003 (using native SNMP extensions) and SuperoDoctor II on Linux (using net-snmp extensions) and both seem to work fine.

--> see this page for the tarball and instructions <--

ivanp · Joined: 26 Jun 2006 Posts: 3

Which SuperMicro model is this template for?
From my experience (with MRTG and supermicro superodoctors) OID-s vary from model to model (as some have 10 fans, other 2, etc).

Edit: Ignore my incompetence - I am new to cacti

I saw it reads and determinates available monitoring items - very nice!

ehall · Cacti User Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 237

The posted update contains a fix that converts the SNMP timeout value from Cacti's millisecond format to PHP/Net-SNMP microsecond format. The lack of conversion in the earlier script would sometimes result in excessive retries or complete failure.

apperrault · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject:

THanks for these great scripts, I have a little problem though. I copied the XML from Script_queries to the script_queries folder, the scripts to the scripts folder, and i imported the templates into Cacti, but one of the templates (cacti_graph_template_sensors_supermicro_fan_sensors_8x.xml) gave me some errors: Unmet Dependencies (See Pic). I assume that it is because of this that my fan and termal sensor graphs are not working.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for the help

app

ehall · Cacti User Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 237

Cacti does not seem to export GPRINT definitions, so you will need to manually create the missing GPRINT preset.

Click on the Graph Management cacti menu item, and then click on the (new) GPRINT Presets sub-menu underneath. Create a GPRINT Preset with the exact name of "Exact Numbers" and the GPRINT Text value of "%8.0lf". That should allow the graph templates to be imported successfully.

apperrault · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:59 am Post subject:

hmmm, that GPRINT Preset was already there. Any other thoughts? In looking at what happens on the import, the GPRINT shows good, but the unmet dependencies appear to be on Data Template Items. Am i doing this right? I just import the 7 XML templates, correct?

app

ehall · Cacti User Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 237

The tarball contains cacti_data_template_* files so it should be working. Did you import those before you imported the graph templates?

I don't have any ideas beyond that--there doesn't appear to be any hard dependencies in the graph templates so it should be working.

apperrault · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject:

hmmm, yeah, imported all the data templates before the graph templates. Maybe i will just go through all the steps again.

Thanks for the help

app

ehall · Cacti User Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 237

I noticed the tarball did not have the default 1X graph templates so I rebuilt the tarball. This shouldn't have been the cause of your problem but who knows.

ivanp · Joined: 26 Jun 2006 Posts: 3

I am having the same problem as apperrault from above post with the screenshot when importing. I tried both cacti 0.8.6i and 0.8.6j versions - no difference.

Single graphs work just fine for me, but I can't get the 8x versions to work. I am thinking I am doing something incorrectly. Here is what I do:
uppon 'devices' I select the desired host, then at "associated graph templates" I add the supermicro (8x) templates (fan/voltage/thermal), then "create graphs for this host" highlight the new "sensors - supermicro ..." graph templates, click create button at the bottom.
However I always get broken image for that graph.

Any help will me much appreciated!

Ivan

ehall · Cacti User Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 237

I uploaded a new version that should work with both Cacti 0.8.6 and 0.8.7 and should also support the SNMPv3 stuff in 0.8.7.

john_d13 · Joined: 17 Mar 2008 Posts: 37

have you got it working with windows ?

I have a win 2008 server x64 box and when i enable the snmp support with supero doctor III I am unable to query/snmpwalk to the box at ALL now. I uninstall supero and its all fine

gandalf · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:09 am Post subject:

ehall · Cacti User Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 237

john_d13 · Joined: 17 Mar 2008 Posts: 37

I got it working

yay