[Cialug] IPMI Sensors issues/HP NetServer

[David Champion]

It's Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog... not "Horay".

At least Mandriva doesn't have the stupidest sounding name of any Linux 
distribution.

-dc

Jonathan Bailey wrote:
> Just finished installing Ubuntu Horay on an HP NetServer LC2000. I've gotten
> RAID, etc working. The next step for me is getting the sensors working so I
> can monitor them. As I understand, this particular server uses IPMI. Loaded
> the IPMI modules and everything works except for the 'chassis' and 'sensor'
> commands. Running 'ipmitool chassis status' gives me 'Error sending Chassis
> Status command: Invalid command'. Also, running 'ipmitool sensors list' just
> pauses for a few moments and then goes back to the prompt. Due to the sparse
> docs, I'm posting here to see if anyone has sensors working on a NetServer.
> 
> Here is the IPMI mods I have loaded:
> ipmi_si                29820  0
> ipmi_devintf            7556  0
> ipmi_msghandler        39752  2 ipmi_si,ipmi_devintf
> 
> root@sparky:~ # ipmitool -V
> ipmitool version 1.8.1
> 
> root@sparky:~ # ipmitool -v -v sensor list
> --SNIP--
> SDR record ID   : 0x06a7
> SDR record id mismatch: 0xa706
> SDR record type : 0x02
> SDR record next : 0x06d7
> SDR record bytes: 41
> Getting 41 bytes from SDR at offset 5
> SDR record ID   : 0x06d7
> SDR record id mismatch: 0xd706
> SDR record type : 0x02
> SDR record next : 0x0707
> SDR record bytes: 36
> Getting 36 bytes from SDR at offset 5
> SDR record ID   : 0x0707
> SDR record type : 0x02
> SDR record next : 0x0737
> SDR record bytes: 37
> Getting 37 bytes from SDR at offset 5
> SDR record ID   : 0x0737
> SDR record id mismatch: 0x3707
> SDR record type : 0x02
> SDR record next : 0x0767
> SDR record bytes: 37
> --SNIP--
> 
> Seems to be seeing SOMETHING, but of couse I don't understand that list
> much.. :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Jonathan C Bailey
> Code0 Networks
> jcbailey@code0.net
> (515) 957-0579 
> 
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