Re: [Freeipmi-users] PS Status showing Unrecognized Event after upgrading a supermicro X8 mobo ipmimodule to fw 3.12

[Al Chu]

Hi Ingard,

I realized another possibility.  The sensor could be "shared".  So you
could try the --shared-sensors option.

Al

On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 10:26 -0800, Albert Chu wrote:
> Hi Ingard,
> 
> Searching through the NEWS file it was released in FreeIPMI 1.0.2.
> 
> Is it possible you're looking at FRU info?  (b/c the option is called
> -psfruinfo). You can try ipmi-fru with the --bridge-fru option and see
> if that works.
> 
> Also try running ipmi-sensors with --bridge-sensors.  If that doesn't
> work, then this might be an OEM extension from Supermicro.  The Slave
> Addresses they list (0x70 and 0x72) are not the defaults.  If
> ipmi-sensors cannot find this sensor in the SDR (sensor data
> repository), then Supermicro is getting this through some other means
> that isn't standard.
> 
> If you ask Supermicro for the OEM extension information, then it's
> possible it could be added into FreeIPMI.
> 
> Al
> 
> It appears in the ipmicfg example below that they are going through the FRU 
> to get information.
> 
> On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 08:14 +0100, ingard Mevåg wrote:
> > Hi Al
> > 
> > Thanks for the information. I had already tried to reset the device, but 
> > running with —ignore-unrecognized-events did the trick :)
> > At least my monitoring is happy now for this one node running latest beta. 
> > I was wondering if you knew when this feature got introduced and/or if 
> > there are deb packages for the ubuntu LTS releases somewhere? I’ve got 
> > quite a few Lucid and Precise servers running version 0.7.15 and 0.8.12.
> > 
> > Also, is it possible to get information per PSU somehow? Supermicro’s 
> > ipmicfg gives the following for instance:
> > 
> > address@hidden:~/ipmicfg_1.14.3_20130725/linux/64bit# 
> > ./ipmicfg-linux.x86_64 -psfruinfo
> >  [SlaveAddress = 70h] [Module 1]
> >  Item                           |                Value
> >  ----                           |                -----
> >  Status                         |                   On
> >  Temperature                    |              29C/84F
> >  Fan 1                          |             7213 RPM
> >  Fan 2                          |            10076 RPM
> > 
> >  [SlaveAddress = 72h] [Module 2]
> >  Item                           |                Value
> >  ----                           |                -----
> >  Status                         |                   On
> >  Temperature                    |              28C/82F
> >  Fan 1                          |             7213 RPM
> >  Fan 2                          |             9732 RPM
> > 
> > Regards
> > Ingard
> > 
> > On 13 Feb 2014, at 17:12, Al Chu <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Ingard,
> > > 
> > > This sounds familiar, although I cannot recall how to fix it through the
> > > firmware. It's possible a cold reset of the BMC could to it.   You can
> > > do a cold reset via
> > > 
> > >> bmc-device --cold-reset
> > > 
> > > If that doesn't work, you can tell ipmimonitoring to ignore unrecognized
> > > events via the --ignore-unrecognized-events option.  After that
> > > everything should work.
> > > 
> > > Al
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 16:17 +0100, Ingard Mevåg wrote:
> > >> Hi guys
> > >> 
> > >> I've been upgrading the firmware on the ipmi module on some
> > >> supermicro X8SIU recently and I'm now experiencing problems with the PS
> > >> Status sensor. Is there anything I can do to make the sensor detect the
> > >> PSUs properly?
> > >> 
> > >> Link to board:
> > >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3400/X8SIU.cfm?IPMI=Y
> > >> The latest firmware as of now is version 3.12.
> > >> Output from ipmimonitoring:
> > >> address@hidden:/usr/local# ./sbin/ipmimonitoring -V
> > >> ipmi-sensors - 1.4.0.beta0
> > >> 
> > >> address@hidden:/usr/local# ./sbin/ipmimonitoring
> > >> ID   | Name          | Type              | State    | Reading    | Units 
> > >> |
> > >> Event
> > >> 4    | System Temp   | Temperature       | Nominal  | 32.00      | C     
> > >> |
> > >> 'OK'
> > >> 71   | CPU Temp      | OEM Reserved      | N/A      | N/A        | N/A   
> > >> |
> > >> 'OEM Event = 0000h'
> > >> 205  | FAN 2         | Fan               | Nominal  | 1695.00    | RPM   
> > >> |
> > >> 'OK'
> > >> 272  | FAN 3         | Fan               | Nominal  | 4655.00    | RPM   
> > >> |
> > >> 'OK'
> > >> 473  | CPU Vcore     | Voltage           | Nominal  | 0.85       | V     
> > >> |
> > >> 'OK'
> > >> 540  | +3.3VCC       | Voltage           | Nominal  | 3.31       | V     
> > >> |
> > >> 'OK'
> > >> 607  | +12 V         | Voltage           | Nominal  | 12.19      | V     
> > >> |
> > >> 'OK'
> > >> 674  | CPU DIMM      | Voltage           | Nominal  | 1.54       | V     
> > >> |
> > >> 'OK'
> > >> 741  | +5 V          | Voltage           | Nominal  | 5.15       | V     
> > >> |
> > >> 'OK'
> > >> 808  | -12 V         | Voltage           | Nominal  | -12.48     | V     
> > >> |
> > >> 'OK'
> > >> 875  | VBAT          | Voltage           | Nominal  | 3.25       | V     
> > >> |
> > >> 'OK'
> > >> 942  | +3.3VSB       | Voltage           | Nominal  | 3.30       | V     
> > >> |
> > >> 'OK'
> > >> 1009 | AVCC          | Voltage           | Nominal  | 3.31       | V     
> > >> |
> > >> 'OK'
> > >> 1076 | Chassis Intru | Physical Security | Nominal  | N/A        | N/A   
> > >> |
> > >> 'OK'
> > >> 1143 | PS Status     | Power Supply      | N/A      | N/A        | N/A   
> > >> |
> > >> 'Unrecognized Event = 0100h' 'Unrecognized Event = 0200h' 'Unrecognized
> > >> Event = 0400h' 'Unrecognized Event = 0800h' 'Unrecognized Event = 1000h'
> > >> 'Unrecognized Event = 2000h' 'Unrecognized Event = 4000h'
> > >> 
> > >> Kind Regards
> > >> Ingard
> > >> _______________________________________________
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> > > -- 
> > > Albert Chu
> > > address@hidden
> > > Computer Scientist
> > > High Performance Systems Division
> > > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> > > 
> > 
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Albert Chu
address@hidden
Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory