BMC Health

[Patrick Venture]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 4:44 PM, Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au> wrote:
> 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.

Right.  I'm reviewing this from an IPMI perspective, things that can
be reported that way, instead of a network interface -- the network
interface being more .... solved as there are plenty of packages for
exporting metrics over the network.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew