Re: [Freeipmi-devel] support for sensors of IBM Server System x3850 X5

[Albert Chu]

Hi Werner, Kurt,

Yup, there are a lot of new permutations on this motherboard I haven't
seen before.  I'll get them added into FreeIPMI for the next release.

Al

On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 02:39 -0700, Werner Fischer wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 
> Kurt - a user of the IPMI plugin for Nagios/Icinga - reported on our
> mailing list that an supposed critical event ('transition to Critical
> from less severe') does not cause a warning through our plugin.
> 
> Reason is that the reported sensor state is "N/A" so I think that
> FreeIPMI cannot interpret it's state:
>   ID  | Name           | Type           | State | Reading | Units | Event
>   387 | Ext QPI Link 2 | Slot/Connector | N/A   | N/A     | N/A   | 
> 'transition to Critical from less severe'
> 
> There are also some other sensors, which report events, but are not
> recognized by FreeIPMI widely enough so FreeIPMI could give a State
> information (state is N/A):
>         22  | Scale Config     | Version Change              | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         [...]
>         66  | VT Fault         | Chassis                     | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         [...]
>         386 | Ext QPI Link 1   | Slot/Connector              | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         387 | Ext QPI Link 2   | Slot/Connector              | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'transition to Critical from less severe'
>         388 | Ext QPI Link 3   | Slot/Connector              | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         389 | Ext QPI Link 4   | Slot/Connector              | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         390 | CPU 1 Int Link   | Cable/Interconnect          | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         391 | CPU 2 Int Link   | Cable/Interconnect          | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         392 | CPU 3 Int Link   | Cable/Interconnect          | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         393 | CPU 4 Int Link   | Cable/Interconnect          | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         394 | Scaling Failed   | Boot Error                  | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         395 | Lane Failover 1  | Memory                      | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         396 | MemSpareErr1     | Memory                      | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         397 | MemSpareErr2     | Memory                      | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         398 | MemSpareErr3     | Memory                      | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         399 | MemSpareErr4     | Memory                      | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         400 | MemSpareErr5     | Memory                      | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         401 | MemSpareErr6     | Memory                      | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         402 | MemSpareErr7     | Memory                      | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         403 | MemSpareErr8     | Memory                      | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         404 | Lane Failover 2  | Memory                      | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         405 | Lane Failover 3  | Memory                      | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         406 | Lane Failover 4  | Memory                      | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         407 | Lane Failover 5  | Memory                      | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         408 | Lane Failover 6  | Memory                      | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         409 | Lane Failover 7  | Memory                      | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         410 | Lane Failover 8  | Memory                      | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         [...]
>         426 | FPGA FW Mismatch | Version Change              | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         427 | TPM Phys Pres    | Button/Switch               | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         [...]
>         429 | No I/O Resources | System Firmware Progress    | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         430 | Memory Resize    | POST Memory Resize          | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
>         [...]
>         433 | IMM FW Failover  | Version Change              | N/A      | N/A 
>        | N/A   | 'OK'
> 
> Are there chances that you could add support for those sensors to future
> FreeIPMI versions?
> 
> You can get verbose output in the following posting (scroll down to the
> end)
> http://lists.thomas-krenn.com/pipermail/ipmi-plugin-user/2012-June/000182.html
> 
> I have put Kurt on CC and asked him to subscribe to
> address@hidden so he can get in touch with you directly, too.
> 
> Best regards,
> Werner
> 
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Albert Chu
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High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory