Re: [Freeipmi-users] getting "internal IPMI error"

[andrew]

Hi Al,

Thank you for your help. It is still happening a lot and only on this
one server, the other identical server does not have this problem. These
servers are idle right now, they are not being used but will be for
databases.

I ran the Nagios command manually and get the error after a few tries. I
ran the freeipmi command that Nagios is running manually and got the
error after a few tries. I turned on debug and after a few verbose
outputs, I get this, its rather terse:

# sudo /usr/sbin/ipmi-sel --output-event-state --interpret-oem-data
--entity-sensor-names --debug
=====================================================
Get SDR Repository Info Request
=====================================================
KCS Header:
------------
[               0h] = lun[ 2b]
[               Ah] = net_fn[ 6b]
IPMI Command Data:
------------------
[              20h] = cmd[ 8b]
ipmi_sdr_cache_open:
/root/.freeipmi/sdr-cache/sdr-cache-databaseServer8.localhost: internal
IPMI error
#

Do you know what could cause this?

Thanks,
Andrew


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] getting "internal IPMI error"
> From: Albert Chu <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, March 10, 2015 1:32 pm
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> If it's sporadic, I'm not that concerned, as it could be due to a busy
> system.
> 
> If it happens very frequently, --debug output would be helpful.
> Although that'll lead to a lot of log output for Nagios.
> 
> Al
> 
> On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 08:14 -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've setup Nagios to monitor IPMI on our 2 new Supermicro servers. The
> > one is working find, the other sporadically but frequently is returning
> > some errors. The page at
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/manpages/man8/ipmi-sel.8.html
> > suggested emailing here. Please let me know if you can help or if you
> > need any more information.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Andrew
> > 
> > 
> > Errors reported to Nagios:
> > 
> > [03-10-2015 03:28:47] SERVICE ALERT: databaseServer8;IPMI
> > SENSORS;UNKNOWN;SOFT;1;ID
> > [03-10-2015 08:55:47] SERVICE ALERT: databaseServer8;IPMI
> > SENSORS;UNKNOWN;HARD;2;ID
> > Service Unknown[03-10-2015 08:54:47] SERVICE ALERT: databaseServer8;IPMI
> > SENSORS;UNKNOWN;SOFT;1;ipmi_cmd_get_device_id: bad completion code
> > [03-10-2015 09:00:47] SERVICE ALERT: databaseServer8;IPMI
> > SENSORS;OK;HARD;2;IPMI Status: OK
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > [03-09-2015 21:02:47] SERVICE ALERT: databaseServer8;IPMI
> > SENSORS;UNKNOWN;SOFT;1;ipmi_sel_parse: internal IPMI error
> > [03-09-2015 19:11:57] SERVICE ALERT: databaseServer8;IPMI
> > SENSORS;UNKNOWN;SOFT;1;ipmi_sdr_cache_open:
> > /root/.freeipmi/sdr-cache/sdr-cache-databaseServer8.localhost: internal
> > IPMI error
> > [03-09-2015 19:00:57] SERVICE ALERT: databaseServer8;IPMI
> > SENSORS;UNKNOWN;SOFT;1;ipmi_sdr_cache_open:
> > /root/.freeipmi/sdr-cache/sdr-cache-databaseServer8.localhost: internal
> > IPMI error
> > [03-09-2015 18:34:47] SERVICE ALERT: databaseServer8;IPMI
> > SENSORS;UNKNOWN;SOFT;1;ipmi_sensor_read: internal IPMI error
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > from website above:
> > 
> > "internal IPMI error" - An IPMI error has occurred that FreeIPMI does
> > not know how to handle. Please e-mail <address@hidden> to report
> > the issue.  
> > 
> > 
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> -- 
> Albert Chu
> address@hidden
> Computer Scientist
> High Performance Systems Division
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory