Re: [Freeipmi-users] Free ipmi 1.6.3 ipmi-sel command exits with a error on some quanta servers

[Albert Chu]

Hi Stephen,

> 1) Using "--legacy-output" works great.  That is an excellent work around.  
> Do you have any idea what information it is lacking?

It's mostly details.  Like sensor values will not output on threshold
events, event states aren't available, and various OEM support will be
missing.  And probably a lot of other things like that.

I'll try to get a temporary fix out sometime this week.

Al

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 5:08 PM Stephen Abbene <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello Albert,
>
> 1) Using "--legacy-output" works great.  That is an excellent work around.  
> Do you have any idea what information it is lacking?
> 2) Using "--comma-separated-output" does not work.  I end up getting the 
> same, "ipmi_sdr_parse_sensor_units: invalid sdr record ", error.
> $ sudo ./ipmi-sel  --comma-separated-output
> Caching SDR repository information: 
> /root/.freeipmi/sdr-cache/sdr-cache-XXXX.localhost
> Caching SDR record 113 of 113 (current record ID 113)
> ipmi_sdr_parse_sensor_units: invalid sdr record
>
> We have opened a case with our vendor based on your findings I will let you 
> know if they follow up.  This is really helpful for us.  We use freeipmi in 
> many of our critical monitoring applications and really appreciate all the 
> work you put into it.
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen Abbene
>
> On 8/14/19, 4:19 PM, "Albert Chu" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
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>
>     Hi Stephen,
>
>     While skimming code, it occurred to me that if we don't bother to
>     calculate column widths for pretty output, ipmi-sel might work for you.
>
>     1) does "ipmi-sel --legacy-output" work
>
>     the output is ugly and not as useful as the pretty output (lacks
>     information from newer releases), but it's something for you
>     temporarily
>
>     2) does "ipmi-sel --comma-separated-output"
>
>     skimming through code, I think I may stupidly calculate columns widths
>     even though the user requested comma separated output.  So maybe this
>     won't work and is something I need to fix.
>
>     If #1 works, then that gives us a relatively simple avenue for a fix.
>     If sensor units aren't available, just don't use that record's sensor
>     units in column width calculations.
>
>     There could be additional problems if the vendor actually outputs a
>     real event that needs information from that SDR record.  But I would
>     consider that unlikely.
>
>     Al
>
>     On Wed, 2019-08-14 at 22:07 +0000, Stephen Abbene wrote:
>     > Thank you for your analysis Albert.  I will reach out to the vendor
>     > with your observations.    Here is the additional debugging output
>     > you requested.  The first is the output of ipmi-sel without
>     > discretereading, and the second is a build of freeipmi from master
>     > branch on git run with ipmi-sel --debug.
>     --
>     Albert Chu
>     address@hidden
>     Computer Scientist
>     High Performance Systems Division
>     Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>
>
>
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