[CentOS] An ipmitool question

Thu Dec 20 18:40:01 UTC 2012
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

We have some new blades, and last night we got a bunch of messages about
CPU temp exceeding threshold, throttling CPU. Running ipmitool sel shows
nothing. ipmitool sdr list shows me current values, nothing special.

First question: why would high temps not show up in the SEL?
Second: among the things I see list are
<...>
10-VR P1         | 56 degrees C      | ok
11-VR P2         | 46 degrees C      | ok
<...>
Does anyone know what the numbers mean, if anything, and what VR means?

       mark