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

[Hank Bruning]

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
>
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> Corey
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