Re: [CentOS] lm_sensors on Sun (x86) Hardware

2011-11-16 Thread Ned Slider
On 16/11/11 14:37, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > I'm running RHEL 5.3 on 6 boxes - and on every one of them > sensors-detect finds nothing. > What did Red Hat say? > 5 of them are Sun fire 2250 machines, and 1 is Sunfire 4170. > > Googling and searching this list does not seem to find anythi

Re: [CentOS] lm_sensors on Sun (x86) Hardware

2011-11-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/16/11 6:37 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > When I log into the Sun hardware management interface (web interface) > I see that it of course is correctly detecting various temperatures of > things. But for some reason Linux is not. you may need to use ipmitools rather than lm_sensors. -- john r p

Re: [CentOS] lm_sensors on Sun (x86) Hardware

2011-11-16 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Alan McKay wrote: Definitely running an out of date OS won't help.  Updating the kernel to current fixed a similar problem I'd had with no usable sensors being detected. Yeah, I'd really like to do that - but I've only been here a week now and don't understand these system

Re: [CentOS] lm_sensors on Sun (x86) Hardware

2011-11-16 Thread Alan McKay
> Definitely running an out of date OS won't help.  Updating the kernel to > current fixed a similar problem I'd had with no usable sensors being detected. Yeah, I'd really like to do that - but I've only been here a week now and don't understand these systems well enough yet to know whether or no

Re: [CentOS] lm_sensors on Sun (x86) Hardware

2011-11-16 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > I'm running RHEL 5.3 on 6 boxes - and on every one of them > sensors-detect finds nothing. > > 5 of them are Sun fire 2250 machines, and 1 is Sunfire 4170. > > Googling and searching this list does not seem to find anything. > > When I log in

[CentOS] lm_sensors on Sun (x86) Hardware

2011-11-16 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I'm running RHEL 5.3 on 6 boxes - and on every one of them sensors-detect finds nothing. 5 of them are Sun fire 2250 machines, and 1 is Sunfire 4170. Googling and searching this list does not seem to find anything. When I log into the Sun hardware management interface (web interface)