Re: [Freeipmi-devel] bad sensor name when using entity-sensor-names

[Albert Chu]

On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 14:24 -0400, Andy Cress wrote:
> Al,
> 
> IMO, the entity name+num and the sensor name should be separate fields
> so that this is not so confusing, i.e. insert a '|' delimiter between
> the two.

I had actually not considered that.  I programmed it like this b/c of a
set of motherboards I saw from Dell.  The Dell motherboards had multiple
sensors with a device id of "Temp".  So the entity sensor name option
was created so that it would show:

Processor 1 Temp
Processor 2 Temp

Separating it out into two fields was not as "pretty" in this case.  I
suppose an option to always output entity id + instance in a column
could be an option.

Al

> Andy
> 
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Hank Bruning <address@hidden> wrote:
> > As usual Albert is correct. The root cause of this is IPMI. Note that it's
> > note a problem, it's just the way IPMI works
> > If you use a API, in this case Java
> > http://www.jblade.com/JbDoc2/products/retuli/ipmiDC/doc/programmers/RetuliIpmiCXProgrammersGuideOverview.html
> > It's under sensors reading or SDR repository.
> > to interact with IPMI, there is no problem and you can interpret the output
> > and act acccordingly.
> > Hank Bruning
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Albert Chu <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey Corey,
> >>
> >> It's not a bug per-se, it's more of an odd side effect b/c the entity
> >> name + instance number happens to be identical to the device id on your
> >> motherboard.  In the case of "Power Supply 1 Power Supply 1" sensor
> >> name, the entity name is "power supply", instance number "1", and device
> >> id "power supply 1".
> >>
> >> In the case of "processor 1 fan 5", the entity name is "processor",
> >> instance id "1", and device id "fan 5", so the entity sensor name works
> >> out nicer.
> >>
> >> Hmmm, I suppose I could add a special case where if "entity-name +
> >> instance" == "device id", then only output one of them.
> >>
> >> If I code such a thing, would you be able to try out a beta tar.gz?
> >>
> >> Al
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 20:47 -0700, Corey Osman wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Just curious as to why sensor #4-5 show Power Supply   twice for the
> >> > name.  Is this a bug with freeipmi or my BMC?
> >> >
> >> > impi-sensors --entity-sensor-names --no-header-output
> >> > --output-sensor-state
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Example sensor data:  http://pastebin.com/bhWtBW73
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Corey
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> >> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> >>
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Albert Chu
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High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory