[Pkg-freeipmi-devel] Bug#684152: freeipmi-tools: ipmimonitoring false critical alerts

[Teodor]

Package: freeipmi-tools
Version: 0.7.17~beta2-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

I'm using a Nagios plugin to monitor IPMI sensors that calls 'ipmimonitoring'.
Unfortunately, on some systems I get false critical alerts like this:
| Record_ID | Sensor Name | Sensor Group | Monitoring Status| Sensor Units | Sensor Reading
| 19 | iDRAC6 Ent PRES | Entity Presence | Critical | N/A | 'Entity Absent'

or on another system

| 46 | Presence | Entity Presence | Critical | N/A | 'Entity Absent'
| 48 | Presence | Entity Presence | Critical | N/A | 'Entity Absent'
| 49 | Presence | Entity Presence | Critical | N/A | 'Entity Absent'
| 59 | iDRAC6 Ent PRES | Entity Presence | Critical | N/A | 'Entity Absent'

Using 'ipmitool sdr elist' these are not reported with critical status:
| iDRAC6 Ent PRES  | 70h | ok  |  7.1 | Absent
| iDRAC6 Upgrade   | 77h | ns  |  7.1 | Disabled

or on the other system

| # ipmitool sdr elist | grep -i -E '(drac|pres)'
| Presence         | 50h | ok  |  3.1 | Present
| Presence         | 51h | ok  |  3.2 | Absent
| Heatsink Pres    | 52h | ok  |  7.1 | Present
| Presence         | 54h | ok  | 10.1 | Absent
| Presence         | 55h | ok  | 10.2 | Absent
| Presence         | 56h | ok  | 26.1 | Present
| USB Cable Pres   | 59h | ok  |  7.1 | Present
| Riser1 Pres      | 5Ch | ok  |  7.1 | Present
| Status           | 60h | ok  |  3.1 | Presence detected
| iDRAC6 Ent PRES  | 70h | ok  |  7.1 | Absent
| iDRAC6 Upgrade   | 77h | ns  |  7.1 | Disabled
| Drive            | 80h | ok  | 26.1 | Drive Present

These Dell systems do have iDRAC6 Express, not Enterprise.

Cheers


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages freeipmi-tools depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.11.3-3       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfreeipmi6              0.7.17~beta2-1 GNU IPMI - libraries
ii  libipmiconsole2           0.7.17~beta2-1 GNU IPMI - Serial-over-Lan library
ii  libipmidetect0            0.7.17~beta2-1 GNU IPMI - IPMI node detection lib
ii  libipmimonitoring1        0.7.17~beta2-1 GNU IPMI - Sensor monitoring libra

freeipmi-tools recommends no packages.

Versions of packages freeipmi-tools suggests:
pn  freeipmi-bmc-watchdog         <none>     (no description available)
pn  freeipmi-ipmidetect           <none>     (no description available)

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