Hi Kaiwang,

I found out that It works if I reopen the cache before getting the sensor
data. Thanks anyway.

Best regards
Thanh

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Dinh Khac Thanh <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Kaiwang,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I tested with/without recreating the cache before
> getting the sensor data. It works fine when the cache is recreated, e.g:
> CPU1 Temp 46 C nominal
> CPU2 Temp N/A unavailable
> ...
> Fan11 N/A unavailable
> Intrusion N/A unavailable
> PS Status N/A unavailable
>
> but not when the cache is reused:
>
> PS Status N/A unavailable
> PS Status N/A unavailable
> PS Status N/A unavailable
> ...
> PS Status N/A unavailable
>
> The number of records in both cases are 30.
> The code is based on ipmi-sensors.c
>
> Best regards
> Thanh
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Kaiwang Chen <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> 2012/2/24 Dinh Khac Thanh <[email protected]>:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am working on a monitoring application that needs to get sensor
>> > information via IPMI every 10 seconds. I have skimmed through the source
>> > code for ipmi-sensors to learn how to use freeipmi.
>> >
>> > My question is: If I am using the same IPMI session to get sensor data,
>> do I
>> > need to recreate the SDR cache every time before reading the data?
>>
>> I believe not. The cache is checked before real ipmi traffic, and it's
>> a noop when the cache exists and is up to date. There is one sdr cache
>> per ipmi node, which defaults  to
>> ~/.freeipmi/sdr-cache/sdr-cache-<localhost>.<ipminode>
>>
>> The logic resides in common code path defined in
>> common/toolsdr/tool-sdr-cache-common.c:sdr_cache_create_and_load(),
>> which is called by run_cmd_args(), which in turn called by
>> _ipmi_sensors(). You can find _ipmi_sensors as callback in main
>> function. All of them are in ipmi-sensors/ipmi-sensors.c, in the
>> trunk(revision 8603).
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Best regards
>> > Thanh
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
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>> >
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kaiwang
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Dinh Khac Thanh
> You can do anything, but not everything
> You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take
>



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