Add a note about pkg-config file location for freeipmi (#11831)
Vladimir Kobal committed
Nov 26, 2021 at 18:54 UTC
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collectors/freeipmi.plugin/README.md
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@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ Netdata has a [freeipmi](https://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/) plugin.
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2. re-install Netdata from source. The installer will detect that the required libraries are now available and will also build `freeipmi.plugin`.
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+> ❗ In some distributions `libipmimonitoring.pc` is located in an unregistered directory.
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+> In that case you should find the file and link it to the standard pkg-config directory. Usually, running
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+> `sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libipmimonitoring.pc/libipmimonitoring.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libipmimonitoring.pc`
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+> resolves the issue.
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Keep in mind IPMI requires root access, so the plugin is setuid to root.
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If you just installed the required IPMI tools, please run at least once the command `ipmimonitoring` and verify it returns sensors information. This command initialises IPMI configuration, so that the Netdata plugin will be able to work.