Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:43:19 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fetching thermal information from HP servers Message-ID: <4799D967.1070606@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080125121941.GA33060@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <4799B997.6080404@fsn.hu> <20080125121941.GA33060@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:27:35AM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote:
>> Any ideas what could be done to make the hardware sensors usable on HP
>> servers? I have a bunch of DL3xx, BL2xp, BL4xxc machines running FreeBSD
>> and all of them have:
>> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 8.3C
>> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV: 9.8C
>> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT: 31.3C
>>
>> These values are constant on all machines, regardless of the number of
>> CPUs, the type and the load.
>
> The sysctls remaining static is due to the BIOS vendor choosing to make
> them static values, rather than tying them into the HWM hardware on the
> board. This is common on a lot of Asus consumer motherboards as well.
> All you can do is complain to the system/BIOS manufacturer.
>
> It ultimately depends on what HWM is on all of the above servers, and
> whether or not utilities like sysutils/mbmon or sysutils/healthd (the
> code between the two is very similar, with sysutils/mbmon being more
> recent) can talk to the IC via old ISA I/O ports or via SMBus drivers.
> This also depends on some BIOS code to be in place.
>
> I'm in a similar boat with our Supermicro SuperServer 5015M-T+ boxes,
> which use a Winbond W83627EHF IC for serial/lpt/floppy/etc. as well as
> providing HWM capability. I've been hacking on some code to talk to it
> for a while via SMBus, and am having some mixed results. (I'm probably
> going to have to talk to Supermicro...)
>
> If HWM is important to you enough to switch OSes, take a look at Linux's
> lm-sensors framework (which is now in the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels), as it's
> significantly more advanced than the above two.
>
With HP kit you can also frequently get at the on-board sensors via IPMI
- -- kldload ipmi and install ipmitool from ports.
Matthew
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