11G wrong IPMI data

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:40:24AM +0200, Patrick Schreurs wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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
> 
> The ambient temperature of this server is 17 degrees (celsius). Dell 
> advices to adjust the datacenter's climate, which isn't very helpful.

At some point, the specification for these values changed.  Instead of
being an actual $temperature_now, the value means "delta between
$temperature_now and $temperature_fail", e.g. the amount of safety
room you have before you hit the critical point.

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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
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