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The ins and outs of IPMI

What is IPMI? What’s the purpose of IPMI? Why should I care about IPMI? These are all fair questions. In the hosting provider world, IPMI or (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is thrown around almost as much as “SDDC (Software Defined Data Center)” or “IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)” but what does it mean, and why […]

Alerting based on IPMI data collection

Morvan Le Goff / 2019-05-10 / Alerting, Data Collection, IPMI, Observability / Uncategorized

The problem to solve… How to continuously monitor the health of all OVH servers, without any impact on their performance, and no intrusion on the operating systems running on them – this was the issue to address. The end goal of this data collection is to allow us to detect and forecast potential hardware failure, in

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