[fm-discuss] Proposal: libtopo eumeration of power supplies and fans via IPMI

[Matty]

On Jan 8, 2008 4:46 PM, Rob Johnston <Robert.Johnston at sun.com> wrote:
> Matty wrote:
> > On Jan 7, 2008 3:49 PM, Rob Johnston <Robert.Johnston at sun.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello and happy new year!
> >>
> >> What follows is a proposal that Eric Schrock and I have been working on
> >> to define a mechanism to enumerate power supplies and fans on platforms
> >> that support IPMI.  This is a first step in the larger Sensor
> >> Abstraction Layer project.
> >>
> >
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > The proposal looks good. Do you happen to know how far along the
> > sensor project is? Any thoughts on when the first beta bits will be
> > available on opensolaris.org?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > - Ryan
> >
>
> Hi Ryan,
>
> It's still just in the planning and early prototype stage at this
> point.  One of the things I've been working on is a document that takes
> Cindi's original design doc and attempts to distill it into a more
> concrete summary of changes and deliverables that would be necessary to
> make what we're calling phase 1 a reality.  I'm hoping that I can get
> that doc refined to the point that I could post it to the Sensor
> Abstraction Layer project page in a couple weeks.
>
> At this point, I won't venture a guess as to when something of beta
> quality would be available on opensolaris.org.  However, in the interest
> of open development, we could explore making code snapshots available on
> the project page earlier.

Thanks for the feedback Rob. I created a memory-based hardware fault
testing image based on Nevada build 78, and would love to be able to
incorporate the sensor code into it. The fault testing image currently
uses a combination of CPUburn, memtester, VTS and disktester to stress
the hardware, and ipmievd and FMA to detect faults. When faults are
detected, they are sent via SNMP to a trap host, and optionally a
syslog host. Having the ability to diagnose environmentals (above an
beyond what ipmievd does) would be the icing on the cake! If you need
a beta tester, please let me know. I would be MORE than happy to put
the sensor bits to good use. :)

Thanks,
- Ryan
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