Tim,
The 'system health light' will be different for each chassis vendor.
Which chassis vendor is this?
In any case, parsing the IPMI SEL (waiting for IPMI events) is the
surest way to detect faults on an IPMI-capable system. That's the
trigger for the firmware to turn on the system health light.
Andy
From: Timothy Gelter [mailto:timo...@gelter.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 5:03 PM
To: ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Ipmitool-devel] generic test for system component failure
Hello list members!
I'm trying to come up with a generic Nagios script which can indicate a
failure condition for any of our systems.
We've come across a couple of different memory failures which resulted
in system failure that only turned on the system health light and added
an entry to the SEL.
Unfortunately, until field tech saw the light, we didn't have any
indication of the failure because we didn't have a Nagios check in place
to alert us of those specific conditions.
What I'd like to be able to do is query the system to determine whether
or not the health light is active.
If there isn't a way to find out this information, I guess we're stuck
parsing SEL output.
I've looked through the ipmitool manpage and so far haven't found what I
need.
Thanks!
- Tim
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