I use ipmitool in my collectl monitoring tool - see http://collectl.sourceforge.net/ - and now can continuously monitor some of my sensors. For now I'm just looking at temperatures and fans and as a default monitoring frequency chose 2 minutes, though that can easily be specified by the users. After some help from this list, I discovered I can greatly improve ipmitool performance by using -S which I now do. After some experimentation I also discovered it was more efficient to explicitly ask for explicit sensors using "ipmitool sdr type xxx" rather than having it report all sensors since that does run slows on some systems I've tested on and I'm sure it's system specific. What I would ultimately like to do is run ipmitool one and give it a list of types but that doesn't sound possible. Are there any plans to support such a capability in the future?
I did discover the "ipmitool sdr get" command which the help says takes an id as a target but when I tried it, it didn't work! First I did this to get a list of IDs: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ipmitool sdr elist UID Light | 01h | ok | 23.1 | 0 unspecified Int. Health LED | 02h | ok | 23.2 | 0 unspecified VRM 1 | 03h | lcr | 9.1 | 0 unspecified VRM 2 | 04h | lcr | 9.2 | 0 unspecified Temp 1 | 05h | ok | 7.1 | 47 degrees C Temp 2 | 06h | ok | 3.1 | 34 degrees C Temp 3 | 07h | ok | 3.2 | 30 degrees C Temp 4 | 08h | ok | 3.3 | 30 degrees C Temp 5 | 09h | ok | 3.4 | 32 degrees C Temp 6 | 0Ah | ok | 3.5 | 30 degrees C Temp 7 | 0Bh | ok | 3.6 | 30 degrees C Temp 8 | 0Ch | ok | 8.1 | 57 degrees C Temp 9 | 0Dh | ok | 39.1 | 24 degrees C Virtual Fan | 0Eh | lnc | 7.2 | 37.24 unspecifi Enclosure Status | 0Fh | ok | 23.3 | 0 unspecified Power Meter | 10h | lcr | 7.3 | 204 Watts but when I did this, it didn't: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ipmitool sdr get 10h Unable to find sensor id '10h' I assume I'm misreading the syntax but it did say "ipmitoold sdr elist" reports IDs. Maybe some examples in the man page would help? Perhaps it's just as well that this didn't work because I'd be tempted to use it and I'm guessing entity IDs vary across different vendors and it looks like types don't, at least not for the testing I've done so far. Also, I have no idea what the 4th column means. For example, in the Power Meter entry how would you interpret 7.3? Is there any documentation on the output format? Maybe it's buried in the man page but nothing jumped out in my quick read. -mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
