[Freeipmi-devel] [bug #51105] The script ganglia_ipmi_sensors.pl can break your entire Ganglia with buggy IPMI servers

[Josef Ridky]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51105>

                 Summary: The script ganglia_ipmi_sensors.pl can break your
entire Ganglia with buggy IPMI servers
                 Project: GNU FreeIPMI
            Submitted by: jridky
            Submitted on: Wed 24 May 2017 09:55:58 AM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Improper Behaviour
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

Description of problem:

On some buggy servers is possible to get IPMI sensors with non-printable
characters in the name. If you use the script ganglia_ipmi_sensors.pl to send
the sensor data to Ganglia, the script sends these sensors breaking the whole
Ganglia installation, because gmetad can not parse the output from gmond, due
to these invalid characters

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. You need a server that reports invalid characters in sensor names
2. Send the data to Ganglia with ganglia_ipmi_sensors.pl
3. Ganglia will stop reporting data. 

For more info, visit https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049630



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File Attachments:


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Date: Wed 24 May 2017 09:55:58 AM UTC  Name: ganglia_ipmi_sensors.patch  Size:
496B   By: jridky
proposed patch
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=40777>

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