On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 01:33:31PM +0000, Carl Gerlach via IBM Community wrote:
> I found that if you don't need an automated monitoring of the HMC
> power and health status, the BMC portal for the HMC provides all of
> the information you might need.
Carl, I'm afraid there's a misunderstanding. I'm asking where on the
HMC to find the power supply status and line in status for the POWER
systems the HMC manages. The BMC of the HMC is thus not relevant.
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Russell Adams
Russell.Adams@AdamsSystems.nlPrincipal Consultant Adams Systems Consultancy
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Original Message:
Sent: 12/9/2021 8:33:00 AM
From: Carl Gerlach
Subject: RE: Where to find power supply status, hardware sensor data?
Sorry about the post, I see that the BMC portal has been previously discussed and doesn't resolve the request,.
I found that if you don't need an automated monitoring of the HMC power and health status, the BMC portal for the HMC provides all of the information you might need.
Sensor readings, CPU temps, system temp, DIMM temps.
Power Consumption Peaks, graphs, etc.
Power Source status.
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Carl Gerlach
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed December 08, 2021 07:56 AM
From: Russell Adams
Subject: Where to find power supply status, hardware sensor data?
On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 02:22:42PM +0000, HARIGANESH MURALIDHARAN via IBM Community wrote:
> Fan and Power Supply status is available via the API mentioned above with hwinventory query parameter.
>
> Energy Metrics covers Power and Thermal metrics on supported systems (not supported on High-end Power Systems currently).
>
> Can you please let us know on what additional information you are looking for ?
I intend to go test the REST API, but I think perhaps this is a more
fundamental problem.
Why doesn't the HMC clearly show this status? Why isn't there a
command in AIX or the HMC CLI to display these values?
I have to drop down into web requests to a backend API that was opened
for compatibility with some devops products to find out server status?
Remember curl and wget aren't included with AIX, so either I have to
goto a Linux box or write Perl code to query this.
While I'll be thrilled if I can finally check this remotely, this is
an unusual way to go about retrieving this information for a top of
the line platform.
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Russell Adams Russell.Adams@AdamsSystems.nl
Principal Consultant Adams Systems Consultancy
http://adamssystems.nl/
Original Message:
Sent: 12/7/2021 9:23:00 AM
From: HARIGANESH MURALIDHARAN
Subject: RE: Where to find power supply status, hardware sensor data?
Hi Russel,
Fan and Power Supply status is available via the API mentioned above with hwinventory query parameter.
Energy Metrics covers Power and Thermal metrics on supported systems (not supported on High-end Power Systems currently).
Can you please let us know on what additional information you are looking for ?
Thanks.
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Hariganesh Muralidharan
Cognitive Systems Management Architecture
IBM
Original Message:
Sent: Mon December 06, 2021 09:17 AM
From: Russell Adams
Subject: Where to find power supply status, hardware sensor data?
I wanted to note that this is still unsolved. While it's nice that the HMC BMC may offer IPMI information, and there may be limited sensor data available from a REST API, I still have no functional way to check the health of the power supplies and the line status of my POWER systems. Ideally an AIX command would be nice.
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Russell Adams
Original Message:
Sent: Fri November 12, 2021 09:20 AM
From: Russell Adams
Subject: Where to find power supply status, hardware sensor data?
I've asked this before in other places, but the topic came up again today. Where can I find the current power supply status, line in status, CPU temp, fan speed, and other sensor data common to a high end system?
The HMC does a great job of notifying when a power leg is lost, calling home, setting alarm led, etc. However there's no way to tell when it's fixed.
Back in AIX 4 we could use uesensor to get limited information, but that's no longer supported.
machstat gives very poor information for rc.powerfail, so that's terribly incomplete.
Where else can we look for this information?
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Russell Adams
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