Re: [Freeipmi-users] DCMI Issue with FreeIPMI

[Al Chu]

Hi Jacob,

Well there's several answers.

A) It's possible your motherboard advertises support for DCMI but
actually doesn't.  I've seen some motherboards like this.  It's a bug
from the vendor.  You'd have to ping your vendor for the definite answer
to whether your motherboard supports DCMI.

B) The power config may not be configured.  See --get-power-limit and
--set-power-limit.  The most important config is the sampling period.
If it's set to 0, your system may not be sampling at all.

C) There may be a mechanism needed to enable DCMI that's independent of
FreeIPMI on your motherboard.  Perhaps a setting in the BIOS.

Hope that helps,

Al

On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 18:38 -0700, Jacob M wrote:
> 
>     
>         On my server, I am using FreeIPMI, and trying to get power usage via 
> DCMI.power l
> 
> 
> When running this command:
> 
> address@hidden ~]# ipmi-dcmi --get-dcmi-capability-info
> 
> 
> I have this result (part of the results):
> 
> Chassis Power                              : Compliant with DCMI Specification
> Power Management / Monitoring Support      : Available
> 
> 
> So, I would assume my system is compatible with DCMI. However, when running 
> the following DCMI command, I get a very odd result:
> 
> address@hidden ~]# ipmi-dcmi --get-system-power-statistics
> Current Power                        : 0 Watts
> Minimum Power over sampling duration : 0 watts
> Maximum Power over sampling duration : 0 watts
> Average Power over sampling duration : 0 watts
> Time Stamp                           : 12/31/1969 - 19:00:00
> Statistics reporting time period     : 0 milliseconds
> Power Measurement                    : Not Available
> 
> 
> It seems the null results are showing. Do you have any why? From my research, 
> it seems it should be working.
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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