Originally posted by: saqi

hello

i need to grab temperature from ibm p595 through snmp agent, can anybody guide me how can i get temperature from sensors through snmp or snmp traps.

thanks and regards,

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

on ancient power hardware there is a uesensor utility to read these values.
newer hardware like the p595 (p5 or p6) does not support this anymore.

and that is for a reason. ask yourself:

• where do you want the temperature taken (on one of the cpus? in the power supply? on the planar?)
• how much good will it do you to know the temperature of any of these?

These servers manage temperature on their own, all you need to do is stay within boundaries of the specified environment temperature (specified in the product literature).
For example by dimensioning and setting up proper air conditioning in the data center.

cheers

Originally posted by: saqi

hello

thanks for the reply.

well the reason why i am asking is that i have a requirement from my client that i do need to monitor the temperature of IBM servers from their data-center, through an snmp agent called CA SystemEdge and forward it to NMS which is already monitoring their network system, routers and lot more.

now the reason why i ask because may be i got a way to know the temperature through snmp or any other package in AIX, so i can forward it to the NMS.

now i do have following requirements, see if anyone can respond to that,

1. Either an snmp based OID of temperature, from IBM p595 machine.
2. or any build-in command, packaged in AIX, that output the temperature values, which then i forwards to NMS.

await for reply on the issue,
thanks and regards,

Originally posted by: hwyguy

I've never done this from AIX, but have been able to query the HMC about the temperature of the managed system.

From the HMC Command line (note the yourframename parameter is the name of your 595 frame from System Management -> Frames)

lshwinfo -r sys -e yourframename -F temperature

You'll get the temperature returned in Celcius

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/powersys/v3r1m5/index.jsp?topic=/iphcx_p5/lshwinfo.htm

Of course, this doesn't help you in getting the info to your NMS server. Haven't done much with the HMC in terms of scripting (if it's even allowed) or you may be able to open the HMC up to another host in which that host runs the lshwinfo command on the HMC and parses that info into a way which would be usable to you.

Hope this helps.