ipmitool dcmi power reading

[rajil]

I couldnt find template for the power reading. For example ipmitool can be used as follows:

# ipmitool dcmi power reading

    Instantaneous power reading:                   197 Watts
    Minimum during sampling period:                175 Watts
    Maximum during sampling period:                242 Watts
    Average power reading over sample period:      190 Watts
    IPMI timestamp:                           Sun Mar  6 15:13:42 2022
    Sampling period:                          00123893 Seconds.
    Power reading state is:                   activated

Is there a way to get this information from your templates?

[hairmare]

We currently use ipmi-sensors with the outofband LAN (IPMI 1.5) driver:

rabe-zabbix/ipmi/Sensor_Discovery/scripts/ipmi-sensor-discovery.sh

Line 85 in 5d2dfb7

${IPMI_SENSORS_CMD} --driver-type=LAN \

So, unless your stack can do DCMI over LAN (using the IPMI 1.5 protocol) it won't work out of the box. I'm not sure if that exists though.

The easiest way to check is with ipmi-sensors:

# hostname/ip of ipmi
ipmiHost=""
# user
ipmiUser=""
# password
ipmiPassword=""
# `all` or something from `ipmi-sensors --list-sensor-types`
ipmiSensorTypes="all"

ipmi-sensors --driver-type=LAN \
             --hostname="${ipmiHost}" \
             --username="${ipmiUser}" \
             --password="${ipmiPassword}" \
             --privilege-level=USER \
             --sensor-types="${ipmiSensorTypes}" \
             --output-sensor-thresholds \
             --ignore-not-available-sensors \
             --comma-separated-output

If the output contains values for the dcmi power reading sensors, then creating a template might be doable with the current sensor discovery tooling.

Is DCMI an Intel thing or do SuperMicro IPMIs also support it?

[rajil]

It is a feature of Supermicro motherboard. Unfortunately, the dcmi power reading is not in the ipmi-sensors output for Supermicro X10DriT board.