On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 15:42 -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
> Maybe you are connecting to a different system over the LAN.  The 
> easiest way to tell for sure would be to use the GUID, if your system 
> supports that.

I modified my test program to get the GUID from the domain and display
it.  Accessing it from both LAN and SMI returns the GUID
020000ff-fe00-0000-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f.  While this is good--the return is
the same--it leads me to think the GUID either needs to be configured,
or has just been defaulted by the manufacturer.

But I think I'm accessing the same BMC.  It was all set up by our other
engineers; the system is sitting in our assembly area right now.
They've told me what the IP address of that BMC is, and I have no reason
to think it's anything other than advertised.

> It's a bug in the OpenIPMI.  I kind of doubt it, though, it's layered 
> and the access type shouldn't really matter.  But you could try ipmitool 
> to double-check this possibility.

Using ipmi-sensors from the FreeIPMI toolkit gives more reasonable
values (CPU temperatures of 24 and 21 degrees, system temperature of
43).  Using ipmitool directly on the node returns similar values.

> It's a bug in the BMC.  Knowing BMC implementations, this is a possibility.

Given that this is the same BMC that had the network issue for which you
gave me that one patch already, I have ZERO trouble believing this.  The
trouble is convincing my boss. :-)

I don't know if it's related, but, when accessing the
"new" (problematic) node with my test program, there's a lot less delay
in bringing the domain "up" than there is when I access a different node
(that gives more reasonable values).  Could this be a clue?  I can try
to get numbers on that if you need them.

                                        Eric

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