Hi all,

I've a more practical question than one which is directly related to
ipmitool itself. If you look at the output of ipmitool sel elist below
you will see intermittent fan failures where a fan seems to stop briefly
and then continue to run. Anyone with a good approach how to act upon these?

o Shall one simply ignore these and delete from the logs unless they
come back regularly and are confirmed by ipmitool sensor?
o Is there a way to insert a kind of 'timeout' into the IPMI card that
the condition has to be true for a period of time?

Cheers
Carsten

1e1 | 11/01/2008 | 23:33:50 | Fan Fan2 | Lower Non-critical going low  |
Reading 0 < Threshold 400 RPM
 1e2 | 11/01/2008 | 23:33:50 | Fan Fan2 | Lower Critical going low  |
Reading 0 < Threshold 300 RPM
 1e3 | 11/01/2008 | 23:33:50 | Fan Fan2 | Lower Non-recoverable going
low  | Reading 0 < Threshold 200 RPM
 1e4 | 11/03/2008 | 00:45:22 | Fan Fan2 | Lower Non-critical going low
| Reading 0 < Threshold 400 RPM
 1e5 | 11/03/2008 | 00:45:22 | Fan Fan2 | Lower Critical going low  |
Reading 0 < Threshold 300 RPM
 1e6 | 11/03/2008 | 00:45:22 | Fan Fan2 | Lower Non-recoverable going
low  | Reading 0 < Threshold 200 RPM
 1e7 | 11/04/2008 | 17:42:38 | Fan Fan3 | Lower Non-critical going low
| Reading 0 < Threshold 400 RPM
 1e8 | 11/04/2008 | 17:42:38 | Fan Fan3 | Lower Critical going low  |
Reading 0 < Threshold 300 RPM
 1e9 | 11/04/2008 | 17:42:38 | Fan Fan3 | Lower Non-recoverable going
low  | Reading 0 < Threshold 200 RPM
 1ea | 11/07/2008 | 09:00:18 | Fan Fan2 | Lower Non-critical going low
| Reading 0 < Threshold 400 RPM
 1eb | 11/07/2008 | 09:00:18 | Fan Fan2 | Lower Critical going low  |
Reading 0 < Threshold 300 RPM
 1ec | 11/07/2008 | 09:00:18 | Fan Fan2 | Lower Non-recoverable going
low  | Reading 0 < Threshold 200 RPM
 1ed | 11/10/2008 | 01:29:09 | Fan Fan4 | Lower Non-critical going low
| Reading 0 < Threshold 400 RPM
 1ee | 11/10/2008 | 01:29:09 | Fan Fan4 | Lower Critical going low  |
Reading 0 < Threshold 300 RPM
 1ef | 11/10/2008 | 01:29:09 | Fan Fan4 | Lower Non-recoverable going
low  | Reading 0 < Threshold 200 RPM
 1f0 | 11/10/2008 | 21:14:35 | Fan Fan4 | Lower Non-critical going low
| Reading 0 < Threshold 400 RPM
 1f1 | 11/10/2008 | 21:14:35 | Fan Fan4 | Lower Critical going low  |
Reading 0 < Threshold 300 RPM
 1f2 | 11/10/2008 | 21:14:35 | Fan Fan4 | Lower Non-recoverable going
low  | Reading 0 < Threshold 200 RPM
 1f3 | 11/18/2008 | 17:30:55 | Fan Fan2 | Lower Non-critical going low
| Reading 0 < Threshold 400 RPM
 1f4 | 11/18/2008 | 17:30:55 | Fan Fan2 | Lower Critical going low  |
Reading 0 < Threshold 300 RPM
 1f5 | 11/18/2008 | 17:30:55 | Fan Fan2 | Lower Non-recoverable going
low  | Reading 0 < Threshold 200 RPM
 1f6 | 11/21/2008 | 01:33:08 | Fan Fan4 | Lower Non-critical going low
| Reading 0 < Threshold 400 RPM
 1f7 | 11/21/2008 | 01:33:08 | Fan Fan4 | Lower Critical going low  |
Reading 0 < Threshold 300 RPM
 1f8 | 11/21/2008 | 01:33:08 | Fan Fan4 | Lower Non-recoverable going
low  | Reading 0 < Threshold 200 RPM
 1f9 | 11/21/2008 | 16:25:24 | Fan Fan4 | Lower Non-critical going low
| Reading 0 < Threshold 400 RPM
 1fa | 11/21/2008 | 16:25:24 | Fan Fan4 | Lower Critical going low  |
Reading 0 < Threshold 300 RPM
 1fb | 11/21/2008 | 16:25:24 | Fan Fan4 | Lower Non-recoverable going
low  | Reading 0 < Threshold 200 RPM
 1fc | 11/23/2008 | 19:44:32 | Fan Fan4 | Lower Non-critical going low
| Reading 0 < Threshold 400 RPM
 1fd | 11/23/2008 | 19:44:32 | Fan Fan4 | Lower Critical going low  |
Reading 0 < Threshold 300 RPM
 1fe | 11/23/2008 | 19:44:32 | Fan Fan4 | Lower Non-recoverable going
low  | Reading 0 < Threshold 200 RPM
 1ff | 11/24/2008 | 12:54:57 | Fan Fan3 | Lower Non-critical going low
| Reading 0 < Threshold 400 RPM
 200 | 11/24/2008 | 12:54:57 | Fan Fan3 | Lower Critical going low  |
Reading 0 < Threshold 300 RPM

-- 
Dr. Carsten Aulbert - Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Callinstrasse 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany
Phone/Fax: +49 511 762-17185 / -17193
http://www.top500.org/system/9234 | http://www.top500.org/connfam/6/list/31

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