IPMItools Prometheus textfile wrapper

Simple wrapper to run the ipmitools Prometheus collector from the node_exporter community scripts collection as a systemd service.

Dependencies

Only the ipmitool binary is required.

Installation

The instructions below are assuming the node_exporter textfile directory is /var/lib/node_exporter/textfile_collector/.

cd /opt/
git clone https://github.com/imcf/ipmitool-prometheus-textfile
cd ipmitool-prometheus-textfile
cp ipmitool-prometheus-textfile.service /etc/systemd/system/
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable --now ipmitool-prometheus-textfile.service