Re: MIB for cpu temperature and/or cpu cooling fans, hardware, monitoring

ahh, that's it.  no output from 'sensors'

all the Linux boxes i'm using right now employ Dell hardware.  a range 
of Dell hardware, but Dell hardware nevertheless

i can take it from here; thanx for pursuing this with me

--sk

stuart kendrick
fhcrc

Bruce Shaw wrote:
> Net-snmp sensors module relies upon linux's lm-sensors to provide its
> information.
> 
> I'm betting if you type:
> 
> #sensors
> 
> you won't get any output.  
>  
> Looks like Dell broke it.
>  
>> http://www.leenooks.com/Dell+2550+and+2650+servers
>  
>> Reason (no specs from manufacturer, really new hardware, etc): DELL
> uses proprietary BIOS extensions that break lm-sensors 
>  
>> Functionality (from 0 to 100% of full functionality): 0% 
>  
>> lm87 hardware is on these motherboards, but wrapped up by some
> proprietary DELL chips. One can apparently use some DELL provided
> monitoring software to enable some access to the data via SNMP. 
>  
> You'd need to talk to the lm-sensors folks about it.  Their mailing list
> is here:
> 
> http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/FeedbackAndSupport
> 
> You'll want:
> 
> lm-sensors <at> lm-sensors <dot> org. 
> 
> If you are getting output from the 'sensors' command, then that's a
> different issue and we'll have to talk it through.
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: Stuart Kendrick [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 6:39 PM
> To: Bruce Shaw
> Subject: Re: MIB for cpu temperature and/or cpu cooling fans, hardware,
> monitoring
> 
> 
> 
> hi bruce, 
> 
> well, actually, no 
> 
> i've been compiling net-snmp with this include line for some years now 
> ... but, until i tried it on a Sparc running Solaris a few weeks ago, 
> had never seen LM-SENSORS-MIB entries in the output of a walk 
> 
> here's a sample linux box (Dell 2650 hardware, SuSE 9.3): 
> 
> panthro> uname -a 
> Linux panthro 2.6.11.4-21.9-smp #1 SMP Fri Aug 19 11:58:59 UTC 2005 
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 
> panthro> rpm -q sensors 
> sensors-2.9.0-3 
> panthro> 
> 
> here's my configure line: 
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/vdops 
> --with-mibdirs="/opt/vdops/share/snmp/mibs" 
> --with-persistent-directory="/opt/vdops/var/snmp" 
> --with-sys-contact=root --with-sys 
> -location=J4-300 --with-logfile="/opt/vdops/var/log/net-snmp" 
> --with-default-snmp-version="2" --with-out-transports="TCP" 
> --with-perl-modules --with-mib-modules="ucd-snmp/diskio
> ucd-snmp/lmSensors" 
> 
> after ./configure finishes running, i see: 
> 
>              Net-SNMP configuration summary: 
> --------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
>    SNMP Versions Supported:    1 2c 3 
>    Net-SNMP Version:           5.3.0.1 
>    Building for:               linux 
>    Network transport support:  Callback Unix UDP 
>    SNMPv3 Security Modules:    usm 
>    Agent MIB code:             mibII ucd_snmp snmpv3mibs notification 
> notification-log-mib target agent_mibs agentx disman/event-mib 
> disman/schedule utilities ucd-snmp/diskio ucd-snmp/lmSensors host 
>    SNMP Perl modules:          building -- not embeddable 
>    Embedded perl support:      disabled 
>    Authentication support:     MD5 SHA1 
>    Encryption support:         DES AES 
>    WARNING:  New version of the Event MIB which may be subtly different 
> from the original implementation - configure with 'disman/old-event-mib'
> 
> for the previous version 
> 
> 
> 

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