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vrnjain
Asked: 2012-08-29 04:33:30 +0800 CST

How to monitor power supply status using ipmitool on Linux/Solaris?

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ipmitool differs a lot in Solaris and Linux. How can I use ipmitool in these servers (on Sun, IBM and other hardwares) to detect the power supply status?

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2 Answers

  1. In linux this worked perfectly for me in current versions of CentOS and Debian

    ipmitool sdr type "Power Supply"
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  2. I'd recommend you to look at FreeIPMI which is very similar for the systems and how developers claim it is easier in setup and has better portability in comparison with ipmitool. To setup power supply monitoring you can use there Powerman (http://code.google.com/p/powerman/) by adding in powerman.conf 

    include "/etc/powerman/ipmipower.dev"

device "ipmi0" "ipmipower" "/usr/sbin/ipmipower -h mynodes[0-10] |&"

node "mynodes[0-10]"  "ipmi0" "mynodes[0-10]"

    You can look for additional options here (http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/freeipmi-faq.html).

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