Re: [Freeipmi-users] FreeIPMI recognizes OEM sensor, but it does not return a reasonable state for it

[Albert Chu]

(Oops, forgot to reply all to the entire list, Lars, please respond to this one)

Hey Lars,

I'll see if I can tweak the make install so you don't hit the symlink
install issues in the future.

> # /usr/local/sbin/ipmimonitoring
> ID | Name             | Type                     | State    | Reading    | 
> Units | Event
> 74 | SD vFlash Status | Module/Board             | N/A      | N/A        | 
> N/A   | 'OEM Event = 0000h'
>
>
> Though, the state is still shown as "N/A".

Since this is an OEM sensor, you need to specify --interpret-oem-data
(you can config it in /etc/freeipmi/freeipmi.conf so its on by default
in the future).

Al

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:14 AM, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Al,
>
>> support for it in the following beta, can you LMK if it works for you.
>
>
> I got this error on "make install":
>
> test -z "/usr/local/sbin" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/sbin"
>  /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'ipmi-pef-config'
> '/usr/local/sbin/ipmi-pef-config'
> /usr/bin/install -c .libs/ipmi-pef-config /usr/local/sbin/ipmi-pef-config
> make  install-exec-hook
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/root/software/freeipmi/freeipmi-1.0.2.beta3/ipmi-pef-config/src'
> /root/software/freeipmi/freeipmi-1.0.2.beta3/config/install-sh -d -m 755
> /usr/local/sbin
> ln -s /usr/local/sbin/ipmi-pef-config /usr/local/sbin/pef-config
> ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/local/sbin/pef-config': File exists
>
>
> I then removed the existing symbolic link and ran "make install" again. Next
> error was about "/usr/local/sbin/ipmi-console". Therefore, I removed all
> symlinks in that dir. Installation went fine afterwards and all symlinks
> were created.
>
>
> # ll /usr/local/sbin/ipmimonitoring
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 412 2011-02-18 12:08 /usr/local/sbin/ipmimonitoring
>
> # /usr/local/sbin/ipmimonitoring -V
> ipmi-sensors - 1.0.2.beta3
>
> # /usr/local/sbin/ipmimonitoring
> ID | Name             | Type                     | State    | Reading    |
> Units | Event
> 74 | SD vFlash Status | Module/Board             | N/A      | N/A        |
> N/A   | 'OEM Event = 0000h'
>
>
> Though, the state is still shown as "N/A".
>
>
>
>> So I can finalize documentation, what motherboard is this specifically?
>
> This is a Dell PowerEdge R210 with an Intel Xeon X3430 Quad Core. If you
> need more info, please tell me where I can find that info.
>
>
> Cheers
> Lars
>
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