From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 17 07:56:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A88B016A400 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:56:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mathijs@brands.name) Received: from additive.crooked.net (additive.crooked.net [80.69.92.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1170043D45 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:56:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mathijs@brands.name) Received: from crooked.net (nexus.crooked.net [84.35.49.2]) by additive.crooked.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61F0C55A2E for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:56:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.crooked.net (localhost.crooked.net [127.0.0.1]) by crooked.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EDB750029E for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:56:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from 194.105.120.70 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mathijs) by www.crooked.net with HTTP; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:56:30 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <9403.194.105.120.70.1142582190.squirrel@www.crooked.net> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:56:30 +0100 (CET) From: "Mathijs Brands" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Temperature monitoring in FreeBSD 4/5/6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:56:32 -0000 On Fri, 17 March, 2006 7:17, Surer Dink wrote: > If you search for messages with subject: CPU/case/disk temperature > sensors for Dell PowerEdge 2850 on freebsd-hackers, you will discover > a thread which boils down to the following instructions: > reboot machine; while it's rebooting, it'll pop up message about bmc - > hit the magic key combination; configure an ip address, username, and > password; install freeipmi port; use > %./ipmitool -Ilan -Hipmiip -Uyyyy -Pxxxxxx sensors As far as I know, Dell included a BMC starting with the 1750 and 2650. On older models, you may be able to read data from the DRAC card (if you have one). The newer ones support IPMI 2.0. Cheers, Mathijs