Bug 463916
| Summary: | ipmitool reports bad value for POH counter with FSC RX200S3/TX150S6 | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Laurent Jean-Rigaud <laurent.jean-rigaud> | ||||
| Component: | OpenIPMI | Assignee: | Jan Safranek <jsafrane> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | BaseOS QE <qe-baseos-auto> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 4.7 | CC: | laurent.jean-rigaud, rvokal | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2009-05-18 20:08:59 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Laurent Jean-Rigaud
2008-09-25 12:26:07 UTC
TX200S3 is set as certified (https://hardware.redhat.com/show.cgi?id=213841). So is OpenIPMI tested during certification process ?? FSC TX200S3 updated with last Bios/iRMC FW. Read POH every minutes -> counter get one hour every 5-6 minutes... Starting log /tmp/poh-9660.log at mer oct 8 16:26:47 CEST 2008 POH Counter : 107735 hours total (4488 days, 23 hours) mer oct 8 16:26:50 CEST 2008: Wait 1 minute... POH Counter : 107736 hours total (4489 days, 0 hours) mer oct 8 16:27:50 CEST 2008: Wait 1 minute... POH Counter : 107736 hours total (4489 days, 0 hours) mer oct 8 16:28:50 CEST 2008: Wait 1 minute... POH Counter : 107736 hours total (4489 days, 0 hours) mer oct 8 16:29:51 CEST 2008: Wait 1 minute... Get Chassis Power-On-Hours failed: Unspecified error mer oct 8 16:30:57 CEST 2008: Wait 1 minute... POH Counter : 107736 hours total (4489 days, 0 hours) mer oct 8 16:31:57 CEST 2008: Wait 1 minute... Get Chassis Power-On-Hours failed: Unspecified error mer oct 8 16:32:57 CEST 2008: Wait 1 minute... POH Counter : 107737 hours total (4489 days, 1 hours) mer oct 8 16:33:57 CEST 2008: Wait 1 minute... POH Counter : 107737 hours total (4489 days, 1 hours) mer oct 8 16:34:58 CEST 2008: Wait 1 minute... POH Counter : 107737 hours total (4489 days, 1 hours) mer oct 8 16:35:58 CEST 2008: Wait 1 minute... POH Counter : 107737 hours total (4489 days, 1 hours) mer oct 8 16:37:01 CEST 2008: Wait 1 minute... POH Counter : 107738 hours total (4489 days, 2 hours) mer oct 8 16:38:02 CEST 2008: Wait 1 minute... According to FSC support, the POH counter increments every 5 minutes so the value returned by ipmitool is false. Btw the IPMI specification document available on Intel website (http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/spec.htm) describe a PoH counter incremented every minutes. So who's wrong ? Problem seems to be OpenIPMI. According to IPMI specification (available on Intel site), the poh command returns 6 bytes : - completion code (1B) - minutes per count (1B) - counter (4B) The 'minutes per count' is not managed in OpenIPMI (and also in ipmiutil, FreeIPMI). So impitool must be patched to display correct value... example: # ipmitool -v -I open raw 0x0 0xf RAW REQ (channel=0x0 netfn=0x0 lun=0x0 cmd=0xf data_len=0) RAW RSP (5 bytes) 05 3d b3 01 00 -> minutes per count : 05 -> counter : 0x01b33d -> 111421 Counter should be 111421 / (60 / 5 ) -> 9285.083 hours Patched ipmitool provides : # ipmitool -I open chassis poh POH Counter : 9285 hours total (386 days, 21 hours) Better than before ;-) Created attachment 321002 [details]
Add minuters per counter management in ipmitool chassis poh
Tested with OpenIPMI 1.1.14 & 2.0.6
This should be fixed with planned rebase to ipmtiool-1.8.10 in RHEL 4.8 update (bug #454833). Right, ipmitool 1.8.10 take care of minutes per count in source code. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0964.html |