Remote Monitoring of Sun x64 Systems Using ipmitool and ipmievd 
by Eric Markwardt
January, 2007
The Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM), included in Sun's enterprise-class x64 servers, provides an abundance of information on hardware related events, status, and error conditions. This information can be a valuable asset, enabling administrators to proactively monitor systems and quickly respond to situations that might affect system availability. However, aggregating information from multiple servers distributed throughout an organization and responding in an automated manner can be a challenge, especially as the number of managed servers increases.
Administrators can choose from a range of tools to help expedite system maintenance. Fully-featured enterprise system management solutions, such as the Sun N1 System Manager, IBM Tivoli, and HP OpenView software, provide many capabilities. But these solutions can be more costly and complex to set up, and may require additional training to gain proficiency. More basic open-source tools, such as ipmitool and ipmievd, provide a simpler command-line interface and can be used to monitor servers and aggregate any detected errors into a centralized location for further processing.
This document focuses on using these open source tools ipmitool and ipmievd to interface with the ILOM, query hardware-related status of local and remote servers, and automatically aggregate events into a centralized log file.
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