power server power consumption problem

Bill Buros wburos at gmail.com
Thu Jun 8 04:43:57 AEST 2017


>From a peer..     Rafael Peria de Sene...

At Unicamp we developed a power monitor based on IPMI output to monitor our
Minsky usage.

Take a look at http://177.220.10.134/powergraph



On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <
svaidy at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> * ?????????? <1363017608 at qq.com> [2017-06-06 19:59:24]:
>
> > I use ipmitool measuring power server power consumption, getting the
> following results without total power consumption as the following picture,
> do I add all power values as total power consumption? I am eager to receive
> someone's replay??Thanks?
>
> The total system power is already aggregates as provided under ipmi
> dcmi command.
>
> You can read it like:
>
> Inband: (within system)
>
> root at ubuntu:~# ipmitool dcmi power reading
>
>     Instantaneous power reading:                   485 Watts
>     Minimum during sampling period:                485 Watts
>     Maximum during sampling period:                486 Watts
>     Average power reading over sample period:      485 Watts
>     IPMI timestamp:                           Wed Jun  7 15:53:08 2017
>     Sampling period:                          00000010 Seconds.
>     Power reading state is:                   activated
>
> Out-of-band: (Over BMC network)
>
> [sv at drishya] ~ % ipmitool -I lanplus -H bmc -U bmc-user -P bmc-pw  dcmi
> power reading
>
>     Instantaneous power reading:                   486 Watts
>     Minimum during sampling period:                483 Watts
>     Maximum during sampling period:                486 Watts
>     Average power reading over sample period:      484 Watts
>     IPMI timestamp:                           Wed Jun  7 15:54:11 2017
>     Sampling period:                          00000010 Seconds.
>     Power reading state is:                   activated
>
>
> You do get component power consumption from IPMI SDR, you can get
> those from inband or out-of-band. But you need not manually add it up.
> On-Chip-Controller (OCC) does the power aggregation already and
> exports it through DCMI power reading.
>
> --Vaidy
>
>
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