On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Erich Weiler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yeah, I tried OMSA, but for the life of me could not get it to read
> anything from the IPMI/BIOS interfaces.  No idea why.  I may just have
> to reboot and go into the BIOS manually and see what I can see there.
>

I ran into the same problem of missing ipmi/bios data a few weeks ago
while writing gentoo ebuilds for OMSA, there are a couple of things
you can check:

make sure the following are compiled into the kernel or loaded as modules:

CONFIG_IPMI_HANDLER
CONFIG_IPMI_DEVICE_INTERFACE
CONFIG_IPMI_SI
CONFIG_IPMI_WATCHDOG
CONFIG_IPMI_POWEROFF
CONFIG_DELL_RBU

Check /opt/dell/srvadmin/etc/srvadmin-hapi/ini/dchipm.ini and make
sure it has the following:

hapi.openipmi.driverstarted=yes
hapi.openipmi.issupportedversion=yes
hapi.openipmi.driverpattern=ipmi_
hapi.openipmi.basedriverprefix=ipmi_si
hapi.openipmi.poweroffmodule=ipmi_poweroff
hapi.openipmi.powercyclemodule=ipmi_poweroff
hapi.openipmi.ispoweroffcapable=no
hapi.allow.user.mode=no

I'm not sure what process is supposed to populate that file, its
certainly not any of the pre/post install rpm scripts and nobody
answered any of my questions about the problems I had with OMSA on
Gentoo, but manually populating the file as above fixed the missing
data in OMSA on several different servers.

Andy


> Thanks!
>
> On 12/08/10 13:49, Bond Masuda wrote:
>> Have you checked the fan speeds? Are they at full throttle? I don't know
>> much about the R910, but usually you can get fan speed readings from OMSA.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Erich Weiler
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:40 PM
>> To: Ryan Cox
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: R910/Linux CPU Heat Problems?
>>
>>> Just so you know, the kernel is merely responding to interrupts from the
>>> processor cores themselves saying they are over temperature.  The cores
>>> have their thresholds set and the kernel can't and doesn't mess with
>>> them.  If the kernel reports the processors are hot, the processors are
>>> actually hot.
>>
>> Ah, good to know.  It may be that the air is simply not cool enough in
>> the datacenter, but this would be the first time I've ever seen this
>> with any of our servers.  I'll double check the screws and fans and see
>> if that might be an issue...
>>
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