Al, You and I have seen lots of BMC vendors, and we've never seen this occur. What I have seen at least one vendor do related to this is to build a threshold full sensor with the threshold mask set to none (no thresholds).
Using the BMC IANA reported by GetDeviceID is pretty foolproof. The firmware itself tells you who owns it. If later, some other vendor implements this, it can be modified to call the same routine, or a similar routine. Andy -----Original Message----- From: Albert Chu [mailto:ch...@llnl.gov] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 3:11 PM To: Andy Cress Cc: Jim Mankovich; ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Ipmitool-devel] Sensor display logic issues On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 12:03 -0800, Andy Cress wrote: > Guys, > > It seems apparent that HP is the only firmware vendor with discrete > sensors which have analog readings. Given that this is legal, but > confusing, it seems like the best way to handle it would be to call an > HP OEM routine to determine if this fits the HP analog reading > profile. > This routine would only be called if the MC reported an HP IANA number > (0x00000B) with GetDeviceID. This seems like a good idea. But do we know if HP is the only vendor that does this? Even if yes, is there a good chance there are HP motherboards sold rebranded w/ different IANAs?? Naturally, I'm not an ipmitool maintainer, so I'll let others decide the best course. I'm just here sharing experience/knowledge :P Al > Is that ok? > > Andy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Albert Chu [mailto:ch...@llnl.gov] > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:51 PM > To: Jim Mankovich > Cc: ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Sensor display logic issues > > Hey Jim, > > On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 11:01 -0800, Jim Mankovich wrote: > > Hi Al, > > > > I understand what you are saying, and your thoughts about using sensor units {1..3} might > > work. I'm trying to find some other folks internally that might be able to shed some light > > on the ambiguity. > > > > Were the "fair number of discrete sensors that you saw 00b", Threshold-based sensors identified > > by (Event/Reading Type Code == 1) ? > -- Albert Chu ch...@llnl.gov Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
