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

[Dan Mann]

Hi Al,


Output from ipmitool -H host.ilo -U Administrator -P xxxxx -I lanplus sdr :
...
Memory           | 0 error           | nc


Output from ipmimonitoring -h host.ilo -u Administrator -p xxxxx -D LAN_2_0
:
...
45 | Memory | Memory | Warning | N/A | 'Correctable memory error' 'Presence
detected'



Dan




On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Al Chu <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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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> Albert Chu
> address@hidden
> Computer Scientist
> High Performance Systems Division
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>
>