Splunk Technology Add-on
TA-IPMI
BMC telemetry
Free for personal use ยท commercial license required
System
ipmitool (installed via apt/yum/zypper)
Why TA-IPMI exists
The BMC sees power, thermal and fan truth the OS cannot. TA-IPMI reads sensors, chassis/BMC status and new System Event Log entries, forwarding each exactly once to dashboards you can alert on.
What it collects
- Sensors: temperature, fan RPM, voltage, watts
- Chassis and BMC status
- New SEL records, deduplicated
Runs on stock tools
No daemons, no agents, no exotic collectors - it shells out to well-known CLIs or reads sysfs, and parses the result into Splunk events.
External tools used: ipmitool (installed via apt/yum/zypper).