11G wrong IPMI data

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Friday 10 July 2009, Patrick Schreurs wrote:
...
> I'm struggling with temperature monitoring on a Dell R710. IPMI reports
> a sensor as critical. We several R170's in a professional cool
> datacenter. They all report the same critial:
>
> ~# ipmitool sdr|grep cr
> Temp             | 53 degrees C      | cr

Do you have a 2nd R710 so that you can see if this is "normal".

I'd also try running OMSA to see what it reports. IPMI is usually a lot less 
tested on servers (unfortunately...).

I've seen many servers that simply report (sometimes very) wrong temperature 
figures via ipmi.

/Peter

> The ambient temperature of this server is 17 degrees (celsius). Dell
> advices to adjust the datacenter's climate, which isn't very helpful.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
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