Matty wrote: > On Jan 8, 2008 4:46 PM, Rob Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Matty wrote: >>> On Jan 7, 2008 3:49 PM, Rob Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello and happy new year! >>>> >>>> What follows is a proposal that Eric Schrock and I have been working on >>>> to define a mechanism to enumerate power supplies and fans on platforms >>>> that support IPMI. This is a first step in the larger Sensor >>>> Abstraction Layer project. >>>> >>> Hi Rob, >>> >>> The proposal looks good. Do you happen to know how far along the >>> sensor project is? Any thoughts on when the first beta bits will be >>> available on opensolaris.org? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> - Ryan >>> >> Hi Ryan, >> >> It's still just in the planning and early prototype stage at this >> point. One of the things I've been working on is a document that takes >> Cindi's original design doc and attempts to distill it into a more >> concrete summary of changes and deliverables that would be necessary to >> make what we're calling phase 1 a reality. I'm hoping that I can get >> that doc refined to the point that I could post it to the Sensor >> Abstraction Layer project page in a couple weeks. >> >> At this point, I won't venture a guess as to when something of beta >> quality would be available on opensolaris.org. However, in the interest >> of open development, we could explore making code snapshots available on >> the project page earlier. > > Thanks for the feedback Rob. I created a memory-based hardware fault > testing image based on Nevada build 78, and would love to be able to > incorporate the sensor code into it. The fault testing image currently > uses a combination of CPUburn, memtester, VTS and disktester to stress > the hardware, and ipmievd and FMA to detect faults. When faults are > detected, they are sent via SNMP to a trap host, and optionally a > syslog host. Having the ability to diagnose environmentals (above an > beyond what ipmievd does) would be the icing on the cake! If you need > a beta tester, please let me know. I would be MORE than happy to put > the sensor bits to good use. :)
Awesome - thanks for your interest. We'll definitely keep this alias posted on our progress. And now you're definitely on the hook for some testing down the road ;) rob _______________________________________________ fm-discuss mailing list fm-discuss@opensolaris.org
