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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:51:20 -0800
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On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:40:51 -0700 alex wrote:


> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:33:54 -0500
> From: Alexander Dupuy <alex.dupuy@mac.com>
> Subject: Re: R210 / L3426 power consumption figures - 40w idle!
> To: linux-poweredge@dell.com, Tim Small <tim@seoss.co.uk>,      John
>         Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien@leeds.ac.uk>
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> 
> John Hodrien wrote:
> > So to be even more demanding, how does it compare with the self
> > monitoring output on your server? I'd really like to know how much
> > I can believe the figures.
> >
> > # omreport chassis pwrmonitoring
> > Power Consumption Information
> 
> Robin Bowes noted:
> > When I try this I get:
> >
> > Error : Current probes not found
> >
> > (see the thread I started entitled "No power consumption data via
> > SNMP")
> 
> Tim Small replies:
> > I just used ipmitool, and ipmievd (which installs in seconds on
> > Debian, and I also use on Intel, HP, Tyan and IBM chassis), but
> > that didn't report any power or current consumption figures -
> > although fields were present in the IPMI Sensor Data Records, the
> > BMC didn't produce any figures - I'd guess this is either not
> > supported on this server, or not available with the base config.
> 
> You can get power statistics from ipmitool with delloem support, e.g.
> ipmitool delloem powermonitor powerconsumptionhistory.  I realize this
> tends to fall in the category of a vendor-proprietary tool, but at
> least you can get a source RPM for this and build it on other systems
> and/or "unsupported" OS'es.  I have built a version of this that runs
> just fine on an R610 RHEL 5.4 system:
> 
> > # ipmitool delloem powermonitor powerconsumptionhistory
> > Power consumption history
> >
> > last minute average power : 102  W
> > last hour average power   : 103  W
> > last day average power    : 104  W
> > last week average power   : 103  W
> > last minute peak power    : 120  W
> > last hour peak power      : 132  W
> > last day peak power       : 165  W
> > last week peak power      : 169  W
> >
> > last minute peak power time   : Thu Feb  4 11:32:01 2010
> >
> > last hour peak power time     : Thu Feb  4 10:05:43 2010
> >
> > last day peak power time      : Thu Feb  4 03:28:53 2010
> >
> > last week peak power time     : Tue Feb  2 04:01:33 2010
> 
> On an R210, the iDRAC6 is optional, and with the default BMC,  I'm not
> sure if these statistics would be available - on a 9th generation
> 1950 I get:
> 
>  # ipmitool delloem powermonitor
>  Error getting power management information: Command not supported on
> this system.
> 
> and although a 10th generation 1950-III system does report some
> information:
> 
> # ipmitool delloem powermonitor
> Power Tracking Statistics
> Statistic                  : Energy Consumption
> Measurement Start Time     : Wed Dec 16 08:45:15 2009
> Measurement Finish Time    : Thu Feb  4 13:24:44 2010
> Reading                    : 257.4 kWh
> 
> Statistic                  : System Peak Power
> Measurement Start Time     : Wed Dec 16 08:45:15 2009
> Peak Time                  : Fri Aug 28 23:35:12 2009
> Peak Reading               : 222 W
> 
> Statistic                  : System Peak Amperage
> Measurement Start Time     : Wed Dec 16 08:45:15 2009
> Peak Time                  : Sat Jan  2 14:57:51 2010
> Peak  Reading              : 1.8 A
> 
> the immediate and historical data are not available:
> 
> # ipmitool delloem powermonitor powerconsumptionhistory
>   Error getting average power consumption history data: Unknown (0x80)
>   Error getting peak power consumption history data: Unknown (0x80)
> # ipmitool delloem powermonitor powerconsumption
> 
> Power consumption information
>   Error getting instantaneous power consumption data: Command not
> supported on this system.
> Warning threshold       : 820 W
> Failure threshold       : 872 W
> 
>  Error getting power headroom status: Command not supported on this
> system
> 
> Amperage value: 1187.2 A
> 
> Anyhow, if anyone is interested, I'd be glad to send them my RHEL5.4
> SRPM for ipmitool + delloem.
> 
> @alex
> 
> --
> mailto:alex.dupuy@mac.com


I'd sure love to have it.  I'd even take a shot at repackaging it for
debian and posting it to the list.

Thanks,

a
