I don't know how much Dell and HP support Alarms, but you might be able to have
the servers generate SNMP or email alarms on health issues.
Randy Schafer
EPSD Firmware Engineering
Intel Corporation
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From: Andy Cress [mailto:andy.cr...@us.kontron.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 11:53 AM
To: Ryan Cox; Timothy Gelter
Cc: ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Ipmitool-devel] generic test for system component failure
Tim,
The Chassis Identify LED has a standard IPMI command to set it, but
OEM-specific commands to read it.
The system health/fault LED (if present) is entirely custom and OEM-specific.
Even if there were a common way to read that health LED, what would that really
accomplish? You would still have to also read the corresponding SEL event to
know what happened.
Andy
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On 04/12/2012 10:47 AM, Timothy Gelter wrote:
Hello Andy,
I appreciate your quick response!
The systems I'm currently targeting are all Dell (C1100, C6220, and R620) but
I'd also want to be able to monitor a variety of HP servers (DL360, DL185,
BL460, & more) in this same way.
I was hoping not to have to parse the SEL but that's what I'll do if that's my
only option.
Thanks,
- Tim
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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
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