In implementing some monitoring at our datacenter, I noticed that most of the thermal sensors do not report for our Dell PowerEdge 2970 systems. Here's the output of ipmi-sensors (v1.0.5):
ID | Name | Type | Reading | Units | Event 1 | Temp | Temperature | N/A | C | N/A 2 | Temp | Temperature | N/A | C | N/A 3 | Temp | Temperature | N/A | C | N/A 4 | Temp | Temperature | N/A | C | N/A 5 | Ambient Temp | Temperature | 15.00 | C | 'OK' 6 | CMOS Battery | Battery | N/A | N/A | 'OK' ... On the same system, here is the output of ipmitool sdr list: Temp | 64 degrees C | ok Temp | -16 degrees C | ok Temp | 40 degrees C | ok Temp | 40 degrees C | ok Ambient Temp | 15 degrees C | ok CMOS Battery | 0x00 | ok Why would freeipmi not report the values for these sensors but ipmitool would? Here is the output of ipmi-sensors -vv --sensors="1": Record ID: 1 Record Type: Full Sensor Record (1h) ID String: Temp Sensor Type: Temperature (1h) Sensor Number: 1 IPMB Slave Address: 10h Sensor Owner ID: 20h Sensor Owner LUN: 0h Channel Number: 0h Entity ID: processor (3) Entity Instance: 1 Entity Instance Type: Physical Entity Event/Reading Type Code: 1h B: -128 M: 1 R Exponent: 0 B Exponent: 0 Linearization: linear (0h) Analog Data Format: unsigned (0h) Tolerance: 2.000000 C Resolution: 1.000000 C Lower Critical Threshold: N/A Upper Critical Threshold: 90.000000 C Lower Non-Critical Threshold: N/A Upper Non-Critical Threshold: 85.000000 C Lower Non-Recoverable Threshold: N/A Upper Non-Recoverable Threshold: N/A Sensor Min. Reading: -128.000000 C Sensor Max. Reading: 127.000000 C Normal Min.: 11.000000 C Normal Max.: 69.000000 C Nominal Reading: 50.000000 C Accuracy: 1.940000% Sensor Direction: Unspecified Positive Hysteresis: -127.000000 C Negative Hysteresis: -127.000000 C Assertion Event Enabled: All Event Messages Disabled Deassertion Event Enabled: All Event Messages Disabled Sensor Reading: N/A Sensor Event: N/A _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
