Re: [Freeipmi-devel] bad sensor name when using entity-sensor-names

[Andy Cress]

Al,

IMO, the entity name+num and the sensor name should be separate fields
so that this is not so confusing, i.e. insert a '|' delimiter between
the two.

Andy

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Hank Bruning <address@hidden> wrote:
> As usual Albert is correct. The root cause of this is IPMI. Note that it's
> note a problem, it's just the way IPMI works
> If you use a API, in this case Java
> http://www.jblade.com/JbDoc2/products/retuli/ipmiDC/doc/programmers/RetuliIpmiCXProgrammersGuideOverview.html
> It's under sensors reading or SDR repository.
> to interact with IPMI, there is no problem and you can interpret the output
> and act acccordingly.
> Hank Bruning
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Albert Chu <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Corey,
>>
>> It's not a bug per-se, it's more of an odd side effect b/c the entity
>> name + instance number happens to be identical to the device id on your
>> motherboard.  In the case of "Power Supply 1 Power Supply 1" sensor
>> name, the entity name is "power supply", instance number "1", and device
>> id "power supply 1".
>>
>> In the case of "processor 1 fan 5", the entity name is "processor",
>> instance id "1", and device id "fan 5", so the entity sensor name works
>> out nicer.
>>
>> Hmmm, I suppose I could add a special case where if "entity-name +
>> instance" == "device id", then only output one of them.
>>
>> If I code such a thing, would you be able to try out a beta tar.gz?
>>
>> Al
>>
>> On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 20:47 -0700, Corey Osman wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Just curious as to why sensor #4-5 show Power Supply   twice for the
>> > name.  Is this a bug with freeipmi or my BMC?
>> >
>> > impi-sensors --entity-sensor-names --no-header-output
>> > --output-sensor-state
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Example sensor data:  http://pastebin.com/bhWtBW73
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Corey
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>> Albert Chu
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>> High Performance Systems Division
>> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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