Hi,

thanks for confirming that my configuration is correct. Indeed "ipmi-sensors 
--non-abbreviated-units | grep Watts " doesn't show anything, so I guess I'm 
out of luck until DCMI support is added to the plugin.

On 2014-09-03 15:23, Thomas Cadeau wrote:
> Hi Janne,
>
> The configuration is correct. Please try the command :
> $ ipmi-sensors --non-abbreviated-units | grep Watts
> If you have nothing, then the IPMI plugin cannot be used on this hardware.
>
> We plan to add an option to used the DCMI power to support more hardwares.
>
> The undocumented options "EnergyIPMIxxxx" are wrappers for
> "ipmi-sensors" options.
> I never have reason to use them.
> Except "timeout" and "reflush", when I used BMC in unstable "dev" state,
> but in this case I had troubles with ipmi-sensors too.
>
> Thomas
>
>
> Le 03/09/2014 11:44, Janne Blomqvist a écrit :
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > has anyone got the acct_gather_energy/ipmi plugin to work correctly?
> > In acct_gather.conf I have the lines
> >
> > EnergyIPMIFrequency=30
> > EnergyIPMICalcAdjustment=yes
> >
> > and in slurm.conf
> >
> > DebugFlags=Profile
> > AcctGatherNodeFreq=30
> > AcctGatherEnergyType=acct_gather_energy/ipmi
> >
> > However, the end result is that in the slurmd logs when starting
> > slurmd a line like
> >
> > [2014-08-28T10:44:52.179] Power sensor not found.
> >
> > appears.
> >
> > I suspect that the reason is related to the fact that I cannot
> > retrieve the power readings with the "ipmi-sensors" command. With
> > "ipmi-sensors -W discretereading" I can get a reading for the power
> > supplies, but it seems to be the nameplate capacity rather than the
> > current consumption. Same for using ipmitool and ipmiutil rather than
> > ipmi-sensors.
> >
> > However, using "ipmi-dcmi --get-system-power-statistics" (part of
> > freeipmi) does appear to work.
> >
> > So my question, I guess, is that is there some way to configure the
> > acct_gather_energy/ipmi plugin to retrieve these DCMI power values
> > instead of whatever it tries to do now? I looked briefly into the
> > source code and there is a big bunch of undocumented "EnergyIPMIxxxx"
> > configuration parameters, but I didn't figure out if any of those
> > could be used to use DCMI.
> >
> > (The hardware in question is various HP Proliant servers somewhere
> > between 1 and 4 years old)
> >
>


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Janne Blomqvist, D.Sc. (Tech.), Scientific Computing Specialist
Aalto University School of Science, PHYS & BECS
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