Al, IMO, the entity name+num and the sensor name should be separate fields so that this is not so confusing, i.e. insert a '|' delimiter between the two.
Andy On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Hank Bruning <[email protected]> wrote: > As usual Albert is correct. The root cause of this is IPMI. Note that it's > note a problem, it's just the way IPMI works > If you use a API, in this case Java > http://www.jblade.com/JbDoc2/products/retuli/ipmiDC/doc/programmers/RetuliIpmiCXProgrammersGuideOverview.html > It's under sensors reading or SDR repository. > to interact with IPMI, there is no problem and you can interpret the output > and act acccordingly. > Hank Bruning > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Albert Chu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hey Corey, >> >> It's not a bug per-se, it's more of an odd side effect b/c the entity >> name + instance number happens to be identical to the device id on your >> motherboard. In the case of "Power Supply 1 Power Supply 1" sensor >> name, the entity name is "power supply", instance number "1", and device >> id "power supply 1". >> >> In the case of "processor 1 fan 5", the entity name is "processor", >> instance id "1", and device id "fan 5", so the entity sensor name works >> out nicer. >> >> Hmmm, I suppose I could add a special case where if "entity-name + >> instance" == "device id", then only output one of them. >> >> If I code such a thing, would you be able to try out a beta tar.gz? >> >> Al >> >> On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 20:47 -0700, Corey Osman wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Just curious as to why sensor #4-5 show Power Supply twice for the >> > name. Is this a bug with freeipmi or my BMC? >> > >> > impi-sensors --entity-sensor-names --no-header-output >> > --output-sensor-state >> > >> > >> > >> > Example sensor data: http://pastebin.com/bhWtBW73 >> > >> > >> > >> > Corey >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freeipmi-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel > _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
