Hey Andy, Yeah, I guess that could be. I've had some other Poweredges laying around before that didn't have thermal margin's before, so I guessed these were not the case. But they could be.
Al On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 12:39 -0700, Andy Cress wrote: > Al, > > The negative sensor temp readings could be valid if it is a Memory or > CPU Thermal Margin sensor. From my Intel system, for example: > Full sensor [001c]| snum 62 | P1 Therm Margin | OK | -59.00 > degrees C > Full sensor [001d]| snum 63 | P2 Therm Margin | OK | -48.00 > degrees C > The meaning of this is that it has 59 degrees of margin left before it > reaches the threshold (0). And actually more than that before it > encounters a CPU ThermTrip. > > Andy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Albert Chu > Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:00 PM > To: Franco Brasolin > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-devel] can't read tempeature info > > Hi Franco, > > The fact that you're getting some negative degrees in ipmitool means > something is probably wrong with the IPMI firmware on your mobo. > Something is definitely not right. > > The first thing to try is to run ipmi-sensors w/ --bridge-sensors. It's > possible the sensors aren't on the main IPMI bus, so they need to be > bridged to other devices on the motherboard. > > As a second shot, this seems similar to a bug I saw on a HP machine. > Could you try running with the "-W discretereading" flag w/ > ipmi-sensors. Maybe that will fix the problem. It would also be > interesting to compare FreeIPMI's ipmi-sensors output to ipmitool's > 'sensor list' output (ipmitool's assumptions are different in that code > path). > > If that doesn't help, could you send me the --debug output from > ipmi-sensors. I'd have to look into detail what is actually going on on > this motherboard. > > As a side note, you may be interested in the --entity-sensor-names > option for ipmi-sensors. It may make your output better for your > motherboard. > > Al > > On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 06:47 -0700, Franco Brasolin wrote: > > Hi all, > > I need some help to read Temperature sensors on a Dell PowerEdge R410 > > model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz > > # uname -a > > Linux pc-xyz 2.6.18-238.1.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 19 11:06:36 CET 2011 > > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > > If I try (from another host with freeipmi 1.06.beta0 installed) the > > following command: > > > > # ipmi-sensors -V > > ipmi-sensors - 1.0.6.beta0 > > > > # ipmi-sensors -h pc-xyz -u user -p passw | grep -i temp > > 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 | N/A | C > | N/A > > 6 | Ambient Temp | Temperature | N/A | C > | N/A > > 7 | Temp | Temperature | N/A | C > | N/A > > 8 | Temp | Temperature | N/A | C > | N/A > > 9 | Temp | Temperature | N/A | C > | N/A > > 10 | Ambient Temp | Temperature | 21.00 | C > | > > 'OK' > > 11 | Planar Temp | Temperature | N/A | C > | N/A > > 65 | CPU Temp Interf | Temperature | N/A | N/A > | N/A > > 110 | Mem Overtemp | Memory | N/A | N/A > | N/A > > > > ie: only ambient temperature is available, while if I use ipmitool: > > > > > > # ipmitool -H pc-xyz -U user -P passw sdr type temperature > > Temp | 01h | ok | 3.1 | -57 degrees C > > Temp | 02h | ok | 3.2 | -63 degrees C > > Temp | 05h | ok | 10.1 | 19 degrees C > > Ambient Temp | 07h | ok | 10.1 | 24 degrees C > > Temp | 06h | ok | 10.2 | 30 degrees C > > Ambient Temp | 08h | ok | 10.2 | 27 degrees C > > Ambient Temp | 0Eh | ok | 7.1 | 18 degrees C > > Planar Temp | 0Fh | ok | 7.1 | 35 degrees C > > IOH THERMTRIP | 5Dh | ns | 7.1 | Disabled > > CPU Temp Interf | 76h | ns | 7.1 | Disabled > > Temp | 0Ah | ok | 8.1 | 26 degrees C > > Temp | 0Bh | ok | 8.1 | 23 degrees C > > Temp | 0Ch | unc | 8.1 | 44 degrees C > > > > I obtain much more info. > > What am I doing wrong ?? > > > > thank you very much for your help! > > ciao > > Franco > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freeipmi-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
