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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2021-12-01 06:15:04 +0000
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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`.
+> ❗ In some distributions `libipmimonitoring.pc` is located in an unregistered directory.
+> In that case you should find the file and link it to the standard pkg-config directory. Usually, running
+> `sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libipmimonitoring.pc/libipmimonitoring.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libipmimonitoring.pc`
+> resolves the issue.
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Keep in mind IPMI requires root access, so the plugin is setuid to root.
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.