[Freeipmi-devel] ipmimonitoring-sensors.c discretereading workaround

[Florian]

Hello,

$ipmimonitoring -W discretereading gives me the Output of the Power Meter like this "5  | Power Meter     | Current      | N/A      | 168.00     | W     | 'Device Enabled'" here you can clearly see the wattage. In this case 168W.

If I just use $ipmimonitoring I get "5  | Power Meter     | Current      | N/A      | N/A        | N/A   | 'Device Enabled'". No wattage at all.

If I compile ipmimonitoring-sensors.c and run it, I don't get the sensor 5 (Power Meter) at all. 

Also there are 2 other sensors (8,9), as seen below, who are giving also wattage readings with $ipmimonitoring -W discretereading

8  | Power Supply 1  | Power Supply | Nominal  | 45.00      | W     | 'Presence detected'
9  | Power Supply 2  | Power Supply | Nominal  | 35.00      | W     | 'Presence detected'

but with ipmimonitoring-sensors I only get

8, Power Supply 1, 8, Power Supply, Nominal, N/A, N/A, 6Fh, 1h, 'Presence detected'
9, Power Supply 2, 9, Power Supply, Nominal, N/A, N/A, 6Fh, 1h, 'Presence detected'

(like with $ipmimonitoring without the discretereading workaround flag)

I've tried to set int discrete_reading to 1, but I got the same results.

Unfortunately I couldn't find any documentation about setting the workaround in the ipmimonitoring-sensors.c library, so thats why I'm asking here.

Related links:

https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/collectors/freeipmi.plugin/freeipmi_plugin.c (implementation of ipmimonitoring-sensors.c into netdata (a performance monitoring webinterface)

https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/3977 (Issue we have over there showing the wattages).

Since this neither works with http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/ipmimonitoring-sensors.c, I thought I would ask here.

Sincerely,

Florian Ströger (Preisschild)