Antwort: Re: how to activate sensors in ipmitool?

[Peter Kjellstrom]

First, please don't e-mail me, e-mail the list.

On Wednesday 07 November 2007, heiner.wulfhorst at intermoves.de wrote:
> We are using PE 2950 and 860...
>
> Tthere seems to be data for CPU temp, because  it says "Not Readable"
> instead of "disabled"...

You're looking at the wrong lines I think. The ones that are probably cpu-temp 
are the ones called "Temp" and labeled "disabled".

> Any Ideas?
> We'd really like to get Information about how hot our CPUs are...

If you could enable it you'd still not get the absolute temperature. These 
CPUs only give relative numbers. One example, if it's 10 degrees below 
critical temp the it will report "-10". And what is critical differs between 
CPUs.

/Peter

> This is the output of ipmitool sdr:
> Temp             | disabled          | ns
> Temp             | disabled          | ns
> Temp             | disabled          | ns
> Temp             | disabled          | ns
^^^ probably the cpu-temp
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