BMC Health

[Andrew Jeffery]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, at 08:33, Patrick Venture wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au> wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, at 05:24, Patrick Venture wrote:
> >> The Facebook presentation yesterday talked about BMC health, free
> >> memory, etc.  I didn't see anything in the IPMI spec about this
> >> information, and beyond my general drive for metrics, just system
> >> health would be great.
> >>
> >> Things I care about:
> >> up-time
> >> free memory
> >> ... other things?
> >
> > * Free flash space
> > * Network traffic stats
> 
> I actually have an OEM IPMI command for grabbing the ethernet
> statistics that loads as a library into phosphor-host-ipmid.

Ok. I don't know how best to export the metrics, though we (others inside IBM) are already looking at the problem.

> 
> > * CPU load average
> 
> Basically a cleaned uptime result?

I guess? I don't really mind how we get the data, or how it's exported, just that if we're going to do metrics I think these values should be included.

Cheers,

Andrew