Hey guys and gals,
Anyone have any experience with getting lm-sensors to run on Sun hardware?
In particular Sunfire x2250 and x4170
I was running 5.3 on these boxes and sensors-detect would not find anything. I did a bit of research and as I recall thanks to this list discovered some bugs that were affecting me, so upgraded to 5.7. CPU temp sensors were then detected, but no fan sensors. At least on the x2250. The x4170 still detects nothing.
thanks, -Alan
don't those boxes have IPMI ?
Hmmmm, the have an ILOM (monitoring hardware)
I'll look to see if there is a way to get what I need through there. Though ultimately I'd like to get it from the linux side, maybe I can go out the front door and in the back.
Is there a Linux tool for communicating with IPMI? And is it easy to configure?
Doing a yum search I see both OpenIPMI and FreeIPMI
Which should I pick?
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:46 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
don't those boxes have IPMI ?
So I installed OpenIPMI and freeipmi and when I get the output of "ipmi-sensors" I have to say it cannot be accurate. These are the same numbers I was seeing from within the ILOM GUI and there is no way they are accurate. Two of the temp ones are showing 22C and 25C but my lm-sensors on that machine is showing values in the high 30s, which has to be the correct value judging by holding your hand next to the system.
I've got the ILOMs updated to the latest and greatest but I've not been able to update the BIOS on these machines and they are not under support anymore so I can't bug Oracle about it :-(
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Alan McKay -
John R Pierce