Did you try 'ipmitool -S file exec cmdfile' Bernard
> -----Message d'origine----- > De : Mark Seger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : 26 November 2008 15:19 > À : Isabelle, Francois > Cc : ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Carol Hebert > Objet : Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Optimizing the use of ipmitool > > > > Isabelle, Francois wrote: > > > >> 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! > >> > > > > And make sure you run: > > ' ipmitool sdr dump <file>' > > and > > 'ipmitool sdr get "Power Meter" -S <file>' > > > > to skip over the lengthy discovery process (unless the > sensor population is dynamic). > > > yes, I've been doing that. by my main problem still remains. > I want to get 3 sensors: fans, temps and power and want to > do it with a single ipmitool command if possible to make > things more efficient and simply doing "ipmitool -S file sdr" > with no args is a lot slower on some systems than individually doing: > > ipmitool -S file sdr type temp > ipmitool -S file sdr type fan > ipmitool -S file sdr type current # gets me the power. > > I don't recall it I mentioned this or not, but I'm the author > of collectl, see - http://collectl.sourceforge.net/, which in > many ways is similar to a performance data collection tool > like sar, but add a lot more data types and provides a lot > more ways to view the data. In any event, I've including > ipmi sensor monitoring via ipmitool for fans and temperature > sensors which is very cool, and now I want to add power > monitoring but want to be as efficient as I can since > collectl runs continuously. The idea here is to be able to > correlate power consumption against cpu load and individual > processes which is something a lot of people are interested > in. Collectl is very efficient, typically using less than > 0.1% of the cpu when sampling at a frequency of 10 seconds. > By default I'm setting the frequency of ipmitool monitoring > to once every couple of minutes since it does have more > overhead than reading data out of proc. My fear is having to > invoke it multiple times/sample is too heavyweight and so I'm > looking for alternatives. If you can't specify multiple > sensors with a single command is there any thought/interest > is providing that as an enhancement? I think it would be a > very useful (and probably not that > hard) thing to do... > > -mark > > > Francois Isabelle > > > > -----Message d'origine----- > > De : Carol Hebert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : 25 novembre 2008 > > 15:45 À : Mark Seger Cc : ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > Objet : Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Optimizing the use of ipmitool > > > > Quoting Mark Seger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >> 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' > >> > >> > > > > Try ' ipmitool sdr get "Power Meter" ' > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Carol > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --- 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 > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
