Re: [Freeipmi-users] HP ProLiant ML310 G5 does not support fan reading?

[Frantisek Hanzlik]

Hello Al,

You are right and Your fix is working, below is ipmi-sensors w/o and
with "-W discretereading" option. First two ID's (Health LED and VRM)
are still not displayed, but I not need them. Fan speeds in percentage
of maximum doesn't matter, it's OK.
Even lower is first part of dmidecode output, for better machine model
identification.

Many thanks for Your work! I see that project vitality has very high
score, I wish You many further successes!

Franta

address@hidden log]# ipmi-sensors
ID | Name            | Type         | Reading    | Units | Event
1  | Int. Health LED | OEM Reserved | N/A        | N/A   | 'OEM Event = 0000h'
2  | VRM (CPU1)      | Power Unit   | N/A        | N/A   | 'Device 
Inserted/Device Present'
3  | CPU Fan         | Fan          | N/A        | N/A   | 'transition to 
Running'
4  | Rear Fan        | Fan          | N/A        | N/A   | 'transition to 
Running'
5  | Temp 1          | Temperature  | 32.00      | C     | 'OK'
6  | Temp 2          | Temperature  | 30.00      | C     | 'OK'
7  | Temp 3          | Temperature  | 22.00      | C     | 'OK'

address@hidden log]# ipmi-sensors -W "discretereading"
ID | Name            | Type         | Reading    | Units | Event
1  | Int. Health LED | OEM Reserved | N/A        | N/A   | 'OEM Event = 0000h'
2  | VRM (CPU1)      | Power Unit   | N/A        | N/A   | 'Device 
Inserted/Device Present'
3  | CPU Fan         | Fan          | 60.37      | %     | 'transition to 
Running'
4  | Rear Fan        | Fan          | 33.32      | %     | 'transition to 
Running'
5  | Temp 1          | Temperature  | 32.00      | C     | 'OK'
6  | Temp 2          | Temperature  | 30.00      | C     | 'OK'
7  | Temp 3          | Temperature  | 22.00      | C     | 'OK'


#------------------------------------------------------------------------
# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.4 present.
56 structures occupying 1594 bytes.
Table at 0x000EE000.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
        Vendor: HP
        Version: W05
        Release Date: 11/15/2007
        Address: 0xF0000
        Runtime Size: 64 kB
        ROM Size: 4096 kB
        Characteristics:
                PCI is supported
                PNP is supported
                BIOS is upgradeable
                BIOS shadowing is allowed
                ESCD support is available
                Boot from CD is supported
                Selectable boot is supported
                EDD is supported
                5.25"/360 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
                8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
                Serial services are supported (int 14h)
                Printer services are supported (int 17h)
                CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
                ACPI is supported
                USB legacy is supported
                BIOS boot specification is supported
                Function key-initiated network boot is supported
                Targeted content distribution is supported

Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
        Manufacturer: HP
        Product Name: ProLiant ML310 G5
        Version: Not Specified
        Serial Number: CZ1751005W
        UUID: 34343533-3336-435A-3137-353130303557
        Wake-up Type: Power Switch
        SKU Number: 445336-421
        Family: ProLiant

Handle 0x0300, DMI type 3, 19 bytes
Chassis Information
        Manufacturer: HP
        Type: Tower
        Lock: Not Present
        Version: Not Specified
        Serial Number: CZ1751005W
        Asset Tag:
        Boot-up State: Unknown
        Power Supply State: Unknown
        Thermal State: Unknown
        Security Status: Unknown
        OEM Information: 0x00000000
        Height: Unspecified
        Number Of Power Cords: 1
....


Albert Chu wrote:
> Hi Frantisek,
> 
> Good timing, there should be a fix for you in 1.0.4 assuming it is the
> same issue that was seen on another HP motherboard.  The workaround can
> be executed using the 
> 
> -W "discretereading"
> 
> on the command line, or setting the flag permantently in freeipmi.conf.
> If it works for you, PLMK so I can your motherboard to FreeIPMI's
> documentation.  (As a side note, on some HP motherboards, they tend to
> output percentage of fan max RPM, rather than the actual RPM.)
> 
> The short story on the issue, the SDR records on the HP motherboard are
> messed up and list "conflicting" information.  Whether intentional or a
> mistake, I don't know (perhaps they were trying to be clever and
> compacting information in a way they shouldn't have?).
> 
> There's an HP fellow on this mailing list that is trying to get it
> sorted out in their firmware.
> 
> Al
> 
> On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 18:15 -0700, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
>> I just tried freeipmi (0.8.8 and 1.0.4) on this small server.
>> "ipmi-sensors" give output:
>>
>> ID | Name            | Type         | Reading    | Units | Event
>> 1  | Int. Health LED | OEM Reserved | N/A        | N/A   | 'OEM Event = 
>> 0000h'
>> 2  | VRM (CPU1)      | Power Unit   | N/A        | N/A   | 'Device 
>> Inserted/Device Present'
>> 3  | CPU Fan         | Fan          | N/A        | N/A   | 'transition to 
>> Running'
>> 4  | Rear Fan        | Fan          | N/A        | N/A   | 'transition to 
>> Running'
>> 5  | Temp 1          | Temperature  | 32.00      | C     | 'OK'
>> 6  | Temp 2          | Temperature  | 30.00      | C     | 'OK'
>> 7  | Temp 3          | Temperature  | 22.00      | C     | 'OK'
>>
>> I'm surprised, as there are no fan rotation speed values, nor some
>> other values, as if they were not available - "N/A" in "Reading"
>> column. Although it is entry-level server, sensors for these values
>> now have even cheapest desktops, I'm right?
>>
>> Is possible that server cannot measure these values, or may be
>> there another problem?
>>
>> "bmc-info" display:
>>
>> Device ID             : 17
>> Device Revision       : 1
>> Device SDRs           : supported
>> Firmware Revision     : 1.42
>> Device Available      : yes (normal operation)
>> IPMI Version          : 2.0
>> Sensor Device         : supported
>> SDR Repository Device : supported
>> SEL Device            : supported
>> FRU Inventory Device  : supported
>> IPMB Event Receiver   : unsupported
>> IPMB Event Generator  : unsupported
>> Bridge                : unsupported
>> Chassis Device        : unsupported
>> Manufacturer ID       : Hewlett-Packard (11)
>> Product ID            : 0
>>
>> Channel Information
>>
>> Channel Number       : 7
>> Medium Type          : OEM
>> Protocol Type        : KCS
>> Active Session Count : 0
>> Session Support      : session-less
>> Vendor ID            : Intelligent Platform Management Interface forum (7154)
>>
>>
>> Thank in advance, Franta Hanzlík