Re: [Freeipmi-users] RAC Status from DRAC5 on Dell Poweredge 1950

[Albert Chu]

Hi Alexander,

I remember seeing this before.  Some of the Dell motherboards report
illegal sensor events.  I don't know if it is a bug on their motherboard
or an intentional OEM extension (i.e. the events might be used for their
Dell specific software).

To deal with this, all you need to do is pass
--ignore-unrecognized-events to ipmimonitoring.  It will ignore the
illegal events.

Al

On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 07:23 -0700, Alexander Fisher wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Hope you can help.  I'm trying to use the check_ipmi_sensor nagios
> plugin I read about in 'Admin' magazine.
> It uses the freeipmi ipmimonitoring tool.  I've so far tried to
> monitor two servers fitted with DRAC5 management cards, but one of the
> sensor readings is causing the plugin to exit with NAGIOS_CRITICAL.
> 
> Here is the complete debug output from ipmimonitoring:
> Record ID: 51
> Record Type: Compact Sensor Record (2h)
> ID String: RAC Status
> Sensor Type: Module/Board (15h)
> Sensor Number: 112
> 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: 6Fh
> Sensor Direction: Unspecified
> Assertion Event Enabled: 'NONE'
> Deassertion Event Enabled: 'NONE'
> Share Count: 1
> ID String Instance Modifier Type: Numeric
> ID String Instance Modifier Offset: 0
> Entity Instance Sharing: Same for all records
> Sensor State: N/A
> Sensor Event: 'Unrecognized Event = 0001h'
> Sensor Event: 'Unrecognized Event = 0002h'
> Sensor Event: 'Unrecognized Event = 0004h'
> 
> Does anybody know what the unrecognized events might mean?  I think I
> can use the -x option in check_ipmi_sensor to hide the sensor, but i'm
> still interested in knowing what the sensor output means.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Alex
> 
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