Basic Monitoring of a PowerEdge SC440

[Mike Peachey]

Frederik Himpe wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:34:39 +0000, Mike Peachey wrote:
> 
> # ipmitool sensor
> 
> gives all the information you need.
> 
> At least, supposing your system does have a BMC. You can verify this with 
> the dmidecode command, it should contain something like this:
> 
> IPMI Device Information
>         Interface Type: KCS (Keyboard Control Style)
>         Specification Version: 1.5
>         I2C Slave Address: 0x10
>         NV Storage Device: Not Present
>         Base Address: 0x0000000000000CA8 (I/O)
>         Register Spacing: 32-bit Boundaries
> 
> It's possible you will need to load the right ipmi driver first. modprobe 
> ipmi_si does the trick here.
> 

Firstly, thank you very much for your reply.

I get the feeling however, that I may be missing a BMC because
attempting to modprobe impi_si fails with unknown device, although
dmidecode does at least suggest that it knows there are a couple of fans
in the system.. TBH, at this point I really don't know what the
motherboard is or isn't capable of.

Perhaps you might be able to tell me.. for all I know, the motherboard
simply doesn't have any sensors and has no way to access the CPU's own.
I just can't imagine Dell would sell a server chassis & motherboard
combination without the ability to check basic sensor info.

I attach outputs from dmidecode & lshw which might help.
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Kind Regards,

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