When FreeIPMI is doing it's communication w/ the BMC there's an error pretty deep down causing grief. Do you know what inband driver you are using?
Is it posssible you have the situation described here? http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/freeipmi-faq.html#Why-am-I-seeing-so-many-_0027internal-IPMI-error_0027-or-_0027driver-busy_0027-messages_003f If not, we'd have to dig a little deeper. Any chance you and download the tar.gz off the website and build with ./configure --enable-debug --enable-trace which can give us way more info. Al On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 09:37 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > > Date: Tue, March 10, 2015 1:32 pm > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: [email protected] > > > > > > 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, [email protected] 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 <[email protected]> to report > > > the issue. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > -- 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
