Re: [Freeipmi-users] problem with freeipmi 0.5.3 and intel SE7221BK1-E

[Al Chu]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 17:09 -0800, Al Chu wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 16:28 -0500, Chris Morgan wrote:
> > On Jan 23, 2008 3:57 PM, Al Chu <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > You know, I think the vendor does claim that but I've never had any
> > > > experience with ipmi before until getting these servers. I was under
> > > > the impression that the only way to get detailed board information was
> > > > via ipmi. I tried using lm-sensors previously and I believe I only got
> > > > information about things like fan speeds, no temperature or voltage
> > > > values etc.
> > >
> > > B/c it's an intel board, I'm pretty it does.  Just curious, have you
> > > been getting identical results on multiple motherboards of this type.
> > > Just to rule out the possibility that one specific motherboard just
> > > might be bad.
> > >
> > 
> > I just tried the ipmi-sensors -f --debug and ipmi-sensors --debug on
> > another one of the servers with 0.5.4-alpha that you had sent me and
> > I'm seeing the same results as from the other machine I've been doing
> > most of the testing on. I've been using 0.5.4-alpha since you mailed
> > it to me, just so you are aware.
> > 
> > Chris
> 
> Hey Chris,
> 
> Two thoughts:
> 
> A) Are there any vendor provided tools that are able to access the
> sensors?  Sort of to prove to ourselves the sensors do indeed work.
>
> B) Have you done any out-of-band/network communication with the ipmi
> tools?  Although hard to believe this is the case, I suppose its
> conceivable some BMC features might not work in-band but will work out-
> of-band.
> 
> Al

Another thought, I just had.  Have you tried ipmitool or "ipmiutil"?  If
they behave the same way as FreeIPMI is on sensors, then I would get the
feeling this is a motherboard issue, not a FreeIPMI issue.  ipmiutil is
written by a fellow that works at Intel.  So if there is any project
that has had access to that motherboard and has tested it on that
motherboard, it'd be that one :-)  Do you think you could give it/them a
shot?

Al

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Albert Chu
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