Albert, thank you so much for the quick response, and good information. I tried a cold reset, but no change. I am able to interact with the vFlash SD card using other utilities, and it seems to be working fine. I will keep digging into the problem, and thanks so much for a great piece of software. Freeipmi has been a great addition to our toolset for monitoring and managing high performance storage.
Thanks. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Albert Chu [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 1:42 PM To: Peter Piela Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] Problem monitoring vFlash sensor on Dell PowerEdge 620 Hi Peter, I would take the 'ok' output from ipmitool with a grain of salt. The 'ok' in ipmitool from 'sdr list' means something different than what the text output below means. In some cases, it outputs 'ok' only b/c a sensor reading was read, the 'ok' is not based on the contents within the reading. According to the output below, FreeIPMI is reporting exactly what the motherboard is saying. Unless the OEM specific data I have from Dell is incorrect, there's not too much to be done. The freeipmi_interpret_sensor.conf is for the --output-sensor-state option, so it won't help for this output. If the hardware is in fact correctly working and operational, there's likely a bad sensor on the system. A hard reset might fix the problem. If that's not possible, a hard reset of the BMC might solve it (bmc-device --cold-reset). Al On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 15:31 +0000, Peter Piela wrote: > I am using freeipmi 1.4.4 to monitor a Dell PowerEdge R620, and having > problems with the vFlash sensor. The OEM return code is being > interpreted as Absent, Failed; however, the component appears to be in > good health, and ipmitool is reporting the condition as ok. > > 77 | vFlash | Module/Board | N/A | N/A > | 'OEM Event = 0021h' > > 77 | vFlash | Module/Board | N/A | N/A > | 'Absent' 'Failed' > > I tried to modify the freeipmi_interpret_sensor.conf to deal with > this, but was not successful. Any help in addressing this issue will > be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > Freeipmi-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
