11G wrong IPMI data

[Patrick Schreurs]

Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
> 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".

Yes, we have several. They all report the same thing.

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

omsa doesn't see a problem at all:

Index                     : 0
Status                    : Ok
Probe Name                : System Board Ambient Temp
Reading                   : 18.0 C
Minimum Warning Threshold : 8.0 C
Maximum Warning Threshold : 42.0 C
Minimum Failure Threshold : 3.0 C
Maximum Failure Threshold : 47.0 C

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

Our monitoring relies on ipmi, which make this very annoying.

-Patrick