Monitoring M1000e chassis. How? IPMI? SNMP?

I actually found a nice command to use in the CMC. Its quite easy to automatize this.

On your surveillanve-server, create a ssh key-pair.

Then upload the public key in the CMC like this

$ pkey=`cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | tr -d '\n'`       # gives the variable 'pkey' the contents of the public key

$ ssh root@CHASSIS "racadm sshpkauth -i svcacct -k 1 -p 0xfff -t '$pkey'"    # will ask you for the CMC root pwd (calvin by default)

The thing is, i didnt see how to set a ssh key for the root account, so you set the key for an account called "service".

Then you should be able to login to the CMC as user service, like this

$ ssh service@CHASSIS    # make sure you use the ssh key now

And FINALLY, you can run the command "getactiveerrors"

$ getactiveerrors
There are no messages.

SO, this is easy to script, for instance to use with nagios/nrpe, like this (you can also specify in .ssh/config that you want to use the user 'service' when you connect to that host)

#!/usr/bin/env bash

chassis_name=$1

if [ -z "$chassis_name" ]
then
    echo "Usage: $0 "
    exit 2
fi

out=`ssh service@$chassis_name getactiveerrors | tr '\n' ',' | tr -s ' -'`
r=$?

if ((r))
then
    echo "Failed to ssh to $chassis_name."
    exit 2
fi

if [ "${out:0:22}" == "There are no messages." ]
then
    echo "Chassis $chassis_name all OK."
    exit 0
else
    echo $out
    exit 2
fi