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Oracle Hardware Plug-In for Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control
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Overview of the Plug-In

Features of the Plug-In

Installing the Plug-In

Importing the Plug-In

Installing the Plug-In on Your Servers

Monitored Server Prerequisites

Preparing Servers for Monitoring

Configuring the IPMI Interface

Configuring Superuser Privileges

Deploying Oracle Hardware Plug-In for Oracle EM

Deploying the Plug-In to Your Servers

Creating Oracle Hardware System Targets

Uninstalling the Plug-In

Removing Oracle Hardware Plug-In for Oracle EM

Monitoring Oracle Hardware System Targets

Oracle Hardware System Target Home Page

Metrics Available for Oracle Hardware System Targets

Understanding the Oracle Hardware Plug-In for Oracle EM Reports

Understanding Oracle Hardware System Alerts

Troubleshooting Oracle Hardware Plug-In for Oracle EM

Issues When Adding an Oracle Hardware System Target

Oracle ILOM Service Processor IP Address Changed

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Configuring the IPMI Interface

For each server you want to monitor, an IPMI interface needs to be enabled in the running operating system. Processes that need to read from and write to the IPMI interface must run with superuser privileges. For security reasons, the sudo command is required on each server running Oracle Hardware Plug-In for Oracle EM.

On servers running Oracle Solaris, the IPMI interface is enabled by default. On servers running a Linux based operating system, follow this procedure: