Re: [Freeipmi-users] Intel SR 1625 Sensors

[Albert Chu]

Hey Werner,

I got a beta release that should handle sensor #47.

http://download.gluster.com/pub/freeipmi/qa-release/freeipmi-1.0.4.beta1.tar.gz

Al

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 10:00 -0700, Albert Chu wrote:
> Hey Werner,
> 
> On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 23:47 -0700, Werner Fischer wrote:
> > Hi Al,
> > 
> > thank you for the beta.
> > 
> > Sensors 55, 56, and 59 are now recognized:
> > 
> > ID | Name             | Type                     | State    | Reading    | 
> > Units | Event
> > [...]
> > 47 | SMI Timeout      | OEM Reserved             | N/A      | N/A        | 
> > N/A   | 'OK'
> > [...]
> > 55 | P1 VRD Hot       | Temperature              | Nominal  | N/A        | 
> > N/A   | 'OK'
> > 56 | P2 VRD Hot       | Temperature              | Nominal  | N/A        | 
> > N/A   | 'OK'
> > [...]
> > 59 | IOH Therm Trip   | Temperature              | Nominal  | N/A        | 
> > N/A   | 'OK'
> > 
> > For sensor 47 the state is still "N/A".
> > 
> > For the SMI timeout I assume that the unasserted state is the one which
> > should be nominal as I have found a notice on a similar Intel
> > motherboard: There Intel they corrected an issue when SMI Timeout was
> > asserted, causing a critical event in their event log - see page 19 in
> > this pdf, point "5) Event Log may report SMI Timeout Assertion after
> > Server Power button is pressed"
> > http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/mfsys25/sb/mfsys25_mfsys35_spec_update_feb11.pdf
> 
> Ahh, I completely misread sensor 47.  I thought it was an OEM event
> sensor, but it's not.  It has a normal event, the sensor type is the
> only thing that is OEM.  Assuming your guess about assert vs. unassert
> is correct (it's a reasonable guess to me), I can add this OEM support
> into FreeIPMI.  I'll try and get you a beta sometime later today.
> 
> Al
> 
> > But I will ask Intel on more details on sensor 47 and sensor 59 as you
> > have requested to be sure. I'll let you know on the list once I have
> > more details on that.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Werner
> > 
> > 
> > PS: here is some more verbose output on these four sensors:
> > 
> > Record ID: 47
> > ID String: SMI Timeout
> > Sensor Type: OEM Reserved (F3h)
> > Sensor Number: 6
> > IPMB Slave Address: 10h
> > Sensor Owner ID: 20h
> > Sensor Owner LUN: 0h
> > Channel Number: 0h
> > Entity ID: system board (7)
> > Entity Instance: 1
> > Entity Instance Type: Physical Entity
> > Event/Reading Type Code: 3h
> > Sensor State: N/A
> > Sensor Event: 'OK'
> > 
> > Record ID: 55
> > ID String: P1 VRD Hot
> > Sensor Type: Temperature (1h)
> > Sensor Number: 102
> > IPMB Slave Address: 10h
> > Sensor Owner ID: 20h
> > Sensor Owner LUN: 0h
> > Channel Number: 0h
> > Entity ID: processor (3)
> > Entity Instance: 1
> > Entity Instance Type: Physical Entity
> > Event/Reading Type Code: 5h
> > Sensor State: Nominal
> > Sensor Event: 'OK'
> > 
> > Record ID: 56
> > ID String: P2 VRD Hot
> > Sensor Type: Temperature (1h)
> > Sensor Number: 103
> > IPMB Slave Address: 10h
> > Sensor Owner ID: 20h
> > Sensor Owner LUN: 0h
> > Channel Number: 0h
> > Entity ID: processor (3)
> > Entity Instance: 2
> > Entity Instance Type: Physical Entity
> > Event/Reading Type Code: 5h
> > Sensor State: Nominal
> > Sensor Event: 'OK'
> > 
> > Record ID: 59
> > ID String: IOH Therm Trip
> > Sensor Type: Temperature (1h)
> > Sensor Number: 106
> > IPMB Slave Address: 10h
> > Sensor Owner ID: 20h
> > Sensor Owner LUN: 0h
> > Channel Number: 0h
> > Entity ID: system board (7)
> > Entity Instance: 1
> > Entity Instance Type: Physical Entity
> > Event/Reading Type Code: 3h
> > Sensor State: Nominal
> > Sensor Event: 'OK'
> > 
> > On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 15:32 -0700, Albert Chu wrote:
> > > Hey Werner, Ben,
> > > 
> > > Here's a beta that should support those sensor interpretations.  It's
> > > tough for me to test w/o your motherboard in front of me, PLMK if it
> > > works for you.
> > > 
> > > http://download.gluster.com/pub/freeipmi/qa-release/freeipmi-1.0.4.beta0.tar.gz
> > > 
> > > Al
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 03:51 -0700, Werner Fischer wrote:
> > > > Hi Al,
> > > > (sorry for sending it twice, I sent my first email in error only to 
> > > > you, not the list)
> > > > 
> > > > I've been on vacation for some weeks and now back again.
> > > > 
> > > > Benjamin meant with "not detected" that FreeIPMI returns a monitoring
> > > > status of "N/A" for those sensors (not "Nominal"). Unfortunately we
> > > > missed to send the output of "ipmimonitoring --legacy-output
> > > > --interpret-oem-data --quiet-cache --sdr-cache-recreate" (which is used
> > > > by our Nagios plugin):
> > > > 
> > > > Record ID | Sensor Name | Sensor Group | Monitoring Status | Sensor 
> > > > Units | Sensor Reading [...]
> > > > 47 | SMI Timeout | OEM Reserved | N/A | N/A | 'OK'
> > > > [...]
> > > > 55 | P1 VRD Hot | Temperature | N/A | N/A | 'OK'
> > > > 56 | P2 VRD Hot | Temperature | N/A | N/A | 'OK'
> > > > [...]
> > > > 59 | IOH Therm Trip | Temperature | N/A | N/A | 'OK'
> > > > 
> > > > Would it be possible for you to include information about those four
> > > > sensors to future versions of FreeIPMI, so that it reports a monitoring
> > > > status of "Nominal" when the sensor reading is 'OK' as above?
> > > > 
> > > > In case you would need additional information from Intel about those
> > > > sensors, just let me know.
> > > > 
> > > > Best regards and have a nice weekend,
> > > > thank you,
> > > > Werner
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 10:06 -0800, Albert Chu wrote:
> > > > > Hi Benjamin,
> > > > > 
> > > > > What do you mean by "not detected"?  It appears everything is fine by
> > > > > the information you list below.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Do you mean these sensors are not reporting actual temperatures?  
> > > > > While
> > > > > these are indeed temperature sensors (identified by the motherboard as
> > > > > such), they do not appear to be sensors that report a temperature
> > > > > reading.  They instead report an event bitmask.  The key is the
> > > > > "event/Readin Type Code" field of each sensor.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Al
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 23:55 -0800, Benjamin Bayer wrote:
> > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > > we have a Intel SR1625 wehre some Sensors not detected with 
> > > > > > FreeIPMI Version 1.0.2.beta3.
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > Thank You.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Regards
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Benjamin Bayer
> > > > 
> > 
> > 
-- 
Albert Chu
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Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory