ipmitool to read PERC/PSU status on PE1650?

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to find out the hardware status of a group of co-located dual
processor PE1650 servers running FC4 upgraded to 2.6.16 and ipmitool 1.8.8.
I can see a list of sdrs on the server, but in particular I see the
following as part of ipmitool sdr list:

CPU 1            | 43 degrees C      | ok
CPU 2            | 48 degrees C      | ok
CPU 3            | disabled          | ns
CPU 4            | disabled          | ns
CPU Planar       | 46 degrees C      | ok
Ambient          | disabled          | ns
CPU              | 1.48 Volts        | ok
CPU 2            | disabled          | ns
CPU 3            | disabled          | ns
CPU 4            | disabled          | ns

This strikes me as strange since these are dual CPUs, yet while I can see
the temperature of the second CPU, the voltage reads back as disabled??! I
also see the following information regarding the PSUs:

Pwr Supply Cntrl | Not Readable      | ns
Power Supply     | 0x01              | ok
AC Source        | Not Readable      | ns
AC Switch Ctrl   | Not Readable      | ns
AC Switch Status | Not Readable      | ns

My aim is to try and determine whether or not any of the hard drives on the
PERC card have failed, and whether or not both PSUs are operational using
IPMI. Is this something that can be determined from just "ipmitool chassis
status", or does it need something special to be fed into "ipmitool raw"?
I'm a little unconvinced from some of the output above that the IPMI
implementation on the PE1650 is working correctly - can anyone offer any
insight on this?


Many thanks,

Mark. 

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