Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmimonitoring: correctable memory error vs. ipmitool: Memory 0 error

[Al Chu]

Hi Dan,

Could you show me the ipmitool command you ran and the output?  It's not
clear to me what you are referring to with "0 error".

Al

On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 15:31 -0400, Dan Mann wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have some systems that I monitor with freeIPMI.  Some of those systems,
> specifically a number of HP systems, report "Correctable Memory Error" in
> the ipmi-sensors or ipmimonitoring output.  I understand that typically
> "Correctable Memory Errors" are not in and of themselves a critical
> issues.  I've spoken to HP and looked in the iLO IML and we see no memory
> alerts mentioned.
> 
> My concern is that our monitoring systems detect this error condition and
> report on it, but there is no actionable steps for me to take to correct
> these issues because:
> 
> 1.  I don't know when the issue occurred
> 2.  I don't know how to clear the issue
> 3.  Since I don't know 1 or 2 I'm not sure if this is a new issue or an
> artifact from another event.
> 
> During the course of troubleshooting  I noticed that ipmitool -H reports
> the memory condition as "0 error".
> 
> 
> I tried with:
> 
> ipmi-sensors - 1.3.2
> and
> ipmi-sensors - 0.7.16.beta1
> 
> Both returned the correctable memory error.
> 
> 
> Is this possibly a bug?
> 
> 
> Dan
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