On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Albert Chu <ch...@llnl.gov> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 08:22 -0800, Hank Bruning wrote: >> The SDR Record ids are dynamic and the same record may have a new >> record ID by the time you read it on the screen and start a new >> IPMITool. >> >> The SDR Record IDs are allowed to be renumbered per IPMI 2.0, Section >> 33.8 SDR ‘Record IDs’ page 435. When the IPMC Controller reboots or >> when the FRU population managed by the IPMC Controller changes the >> SDRs most likely will be renumbered but the IPMI Controller is allowed >> to renumber the records when ever it wants. > > While they can change, in practice they don't. It's a useful way to > select sensors that several other projects support. I don't see why it > couldn't be supported by ipmitool as an option. > > As a use case example, I've seen some motherboards that have duplicate > sensors w/ the same name, so you can't select a specific sensor via > ipmitool's current "get SENSORNAME" option. Here's one example of that > situation. > > # ipmitool -I free sensor list > Temp | -58.000 | degrees C | ok | na | na | > na | 85.000 | 90.000 | na > Temp | -59.000 | degrees C | ok | na | na | > na | 85.000 | 90.000 | na > Temp | 39.000 | degrees C | ok | na | na | > na | na | na | na > Ambient Temp | 21.000 | degrees C | ok | na | na | > na | na | na | na > Temp | na | degrees C | na | na | na | > na | na | na | na > Ambient Temp | na | degrees C | na | na | na | > na | na | na | na > Ambient Temp | 21.000 | degrees C | ok | na | 3.000 | > 8.000 | 42.000 | 47.000 | na > > # ipmitool -I free sensor get Temp > Locating sensor record... > Sensor ID : Temp (0x1) > Entity ID : 3.1 > <snip> > > Al >
Al, thank you for perfect use-case(of which I wouldn't have though of, because of homogenous test environment). Z. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
