Prometheus Hardware Exporter exports Prometheus metrics from BMCs (Baseboard management controllers) using IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) and Redfish protocol. It also exports and various SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) and RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) controllers.
Prometheus Hardware Exporter is recommended for Juju users. You can deploy Prometheus Hardware Exporter using the Hardware Observer charm. For more information, you can read the documentation about Hardware Observer on Charmhub.
Note: this exporter does not bundle the required third party or proprietary software. If you would like to use this exporter, you will need to install them by yourself.
This package is not published anywhere as of now. Currently, it can be installed locally or on a virtual environment. To install it on a virtual environment, run:
# Install virtualvenv and source it
pip3 install virtualenv
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
# Install the prometheus-hardware-exporter package; the "(venv)" prefix on the
# shell prompt indicates that the virtual environment is active.
(venv) pip3 install .To verify that the package has been installed successfully, run:
(venv) prometheus-hardware-exporter -hIf you see the help message, then prometheus-hardware-exporter is installed on
the virtual environment.
To start the exporter at port 10000 and enable the ipmi sensor collector, run:
(venv) prometheus-hardware-exporter -p 10000 --collector.ipmi_sensorNote that all the exporters are disabled by default as you will need to install the appropriate third party or proprietary software to run the collectors. You can check out Resources to find out more information about the third party software.
You can learn more about the metrics from Hardware Observer documentation.
This is still work in progress, and only support local testing. For more information on building and running the snap locally, please refer to README-SNAP.md