Hey Werner, Could you send me some ipmi-sensors output for this motherboard? This motherboard is old enough, I'm wondering if the OEM extensions were different back then. I have a motherboard with the identical manufacturer/product ID, and it had normal CPU temperature sensors.
Al On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 10:56 -0800, Albert Chu wrote: > Hey Werner, > > On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 02:33 -0800, Werner Fischer wrote: > > Hi Al, > > > > * one of our customers discovered another Supermicro system where > > FreeIPMI has currently no product ID information to display the > > OEM CPU temp sensors (he tried up to > > freeipmi-1.0.2.beta2.tar.gz) > > * It is a 6015B-3R > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/6015/SYS-6015B-3R.cfm > > with a X7DBR-3 mainboard > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBR-3.cfm > > Below I have attached his output of bmc-info. > > > > My questions > > 1. Can you add the Manufacturer-ID/Product-ID for the OEM CPU temp > > sensors for this board? (As it is a X7-board it has IPMI not > > onboard (like the X8-boards do), but it uses the AOC-SIMSO(+) > > add on card for IPMI. Therefore the Manufacturer ID is Peppercon > > (not Supermicro).) > > Hmm. I'll think about how to do this. Since Peppercon can sell to > other customers, I'm not sure how to tell it's definitely a Supermicro > motherboard. > > > 2. If it is not too difficult for me and if it could lower your > > necessary work: Maybe you can tell me where the > > Manufacturer-ID/Product-ID are matched in the FreeIPMI code for > > the OEM sensors (so I could try add them myself in the source > > and I could send you directly patches) > > It can be difficult since there are many permutations and ways OEM > extensions can be handled. The Supermicro ones are particularly unique > and have a special case. (And the fact the above motherboard doesn't > even list Supermicro as the vendor makes it more difficult.) > > If you're interested in learning, the beginning steps are the files in > libfreeipmi/include/freeipmi/spec/, libfreeipmi/src/spec, and > libfreeipmi/src/util (this is just for sensors, not for SEL > extensions :-). > > Al > > > Thanks for your help and best regards, > > Werner > > > > PS: Here is the output of bmc-info: > > > > Device ID : 34 > > Device Revision : 1 > > Device SDRs : unsupported > > Firmware Revision : 1.59 > > Device Available : yes (normal operation) > > IPMI Version : 2.0 > > Sensor Device : supported > > SDR Repository Device : supported > > SEL Device : supported > > FRU Inventory Device : supported > > IPMB Event Receiver : unsupported > > IPMB Event Generator : unsupported > > Bridge : unsupported > > Chassis Device : supported > > Manufacturer ID : Peppercon AG (10437) > > Product ID : 4 > > Auxiliary Firmware Revision Information : 20540000h > > > > GUID : 0F0E0D0C-0B0A-0908-BD20-9BFEFF483002 > > > > Channel Information > > > > Channel Number : 1 > > Medium Type : 802.3 LAN > > Protocol Type : IPMB-1.0 > > Active Session Count : 1 > > Session Support : multi-session > > Vendor ID : Intelligent Platform Management Interface forum > > (7154) > > > > Channel Number : 5 > > Medium Type : Asynch. Serial/Modem (RS-232) > > Protocol Type : IPMB-1.0 > > Active Session Count : 0 > > Session Support : single-session > > Vendor ID : Intelligent Platform Management Interface forum > > (7154) > > > > -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
