Hi, thanks for confirming that my configuration is correct. Indeed "ipmi-sensors --non-abbreviated-units | grep Watts " doesn't show anything, so I guess I'm out of luck until DCMI support is added to the plugin.
On 2014-09-03 15:23, Thomas Cadeau wrote: > Hi Janne, > > The configuration is correct. Please try the command : > $ ipmi-sensors --non-abbreviated-units | grep Watts > If you have nothing, then the IPMI plugin cannot be used on this hardware. > > We plan to add an option to used the DCMI power to support more hardwares. > > The undocumented options "EnergyIPMIxxxx" are wrappers for > "ipmi-sensors" options. > I never have reason to use them. > Except "timeout" and "reflush", when I used BMC in unstable "dev" state, > but in this case I had troubles with ipmi-sensors too. > > Thomas > > > Le 03/09/2014 11:44, Janne Blomqvist a écrit : > > > > Hi, > > > > has anyone got the acct_gather_energy/ipmi plugin to work correctly? > > In acct_gather.conf I have the lines > > > > EnergyIPMIFrequency=30 > > EnergyIPMICalcAdjustment=yes > > > > and in slurm.conf > > > > DebugFlags=Profile > > AcctGatherNodeFreq=30 > > AcctGatherEnergyType=acct_gather_energy/ipmi > > > > However, the end result is that in the slurmd logs when starting > > slurmd a line like > > > > [2014-08-28T10:44:52.179] Power sensor not found. > > > > appears. > > > > I suspect that the reason is related to the fact that I cannot > > retrieve the power readings with the "ipmi-sensors" command. With > > "ipmi-sensors -W discretereading" I can get a reading for the power > > supplies, but it seems to be the nameplate capacity rather than the > > current consumption. Same for using ipmitool and ipmiutil rather than > > ipmi-sensors. > > > > However, using "ipmi-dcmi --get-system-power-statistics" (part of > > freeipmi) does appear to work. > > > > So my question, I guess, is that is there some way to configure the > > acct_gather_energy/ipmi plugin to retrieve these DCMI power values > > instead of whatever it tries to do now? I looked briefly into the > > source code and there is a big bunch of undocumented "EnergyIPMIxxxx" > > configuration parameters, but I didn't figure out if any of those > > could be used to use DCMI. > > > > (The hardware in question is various HP Proliant servers somewhere > > between 1 and 4 years old) > > > -- Janne Blomqvist, D.Sc. (Tech.), Scientific Computing Specialist Aalto University School of Science, PHYS & BECS +358503841576 || [email protected]
