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buffalobills buffalobills |
trend thermal information
May 27 2008, 3:52 PM EDT Hi. How do I write a script to output thermal information that I can use for trending purposes at a later date? 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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buffalobills buffalobills |
RE: trend thermal information
May 27 2008, 3:54 PM EDT Also, these would be on generation 2 or older 2950s Do you find this valuable? |
 scott_hanson |
RE: trend thermal information
May 29 2008, 2:22 PM EDT If you're using ITA, you can export the data that is collected from power monitoring to a CSV file. You can then import this to Excel or whatever else for reporting purposes. Here's a screenshot of where it is in the ITA interface --> http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/Exporting+Perf+and+Power+Data+in+ITA If the servers aren't instrumented to measure power you'll have to put a device inline between the power source and the power supply. We use an Extech Datalogger (http://www.extech.com/instrument/products/310_399/380803Data.html) in the lab for older servers. It connected to a serial port and has a Windows program that captures the data to a file. Do you find this valuable? |
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buffalobills buffalobills |
RE: trend thermal information
May 29 2008, 3:36 PM EDT Thanks Scott. But what I was actually looking for was not so much power consumption, but temperature information. So instance, I wanted to see how changes in my datacenter affected the temperature of the servers over time so I can see the trend. Is there anything I can do to collect the thermal info (I know alerts are available, but I was looking to collect the temperature information in a file even if its under the threshold). Thanks Do you find this valuable? |
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scott_hanson |
RE: trend thermal information
May 29 2008, 4:10 PM EDT Ahhh, sorry I was going down the wrong path. For any machine that has OMSA installed, you can use "omreport" from the command line. Here's an example from a machine in the lab : C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.CL>omreport chassis temps Temperature Probes Information ------------------------------------ Main System Chassis Temperatures: Ok ------------------------------------ Index : 0 Status : Ok Probe Name : System Board Ambient Temp Reading : 22.0 C Minimum Warning Threshold : 8.0 C Maximum Warning Threshold : 42.0 C Minimum Failure Threshold : 3.0 C Maximum Failure Threshold : 47.0 C ----------------------------------------------------- That will give you the reading of the temperature probe. As Dave Jaffe would say, "I'll leave the writing of the script as an exercise to the reader." 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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buffalobills buffalobills |
RE: trend thermal information
May 29 2008, 5:08 PM EDT Awesome! Thanks Scott. So if I wanted to run this for every machine in my datacenter from OMSA, I should be able to do so by scripting this and running it individually for each machine, correct? Do you find this valuable? |
