Historical Sensor Information

[Milton Miller II]

On August 15, 2019, Wilfred Smith wrote:
>I’ll need to check with my compatriots here at Facebook for our
>specific use cases.
>
>Can you point me to the discussion on metrics reporting?
>

Probably this thread here, there seems to be a working group with a meeting schedule:

https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2019-August/017412.html

Platform telemetry and health monitoring - PST AM 

https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/wiki/Platform-telemetry-and-health-monitoring-Work-Group

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>> On Aug 14, 2019, at 7:51 PM, Emily Shaffer
><emilyshaffer at google.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 4:05 PM Wilfred Smith <wilfredsmith at fb.com>
>wrote:
>>> 
>>> I presume most vendors desire the ability to query historical
>sensor information from the BMC.
>>>        Has this feature been implemented already? If so, please
>direct me.
>>>        If not, has someone already begun development?
>>>        Is there an existing specification or write-up?
>>>        Any ‘druthers or preferences on how I might proceed such
>that my effort benefits the wider community?
>>> 
>>> Wilfred
>> 
>> I think that the space constriction on many BMCs has left folks to
>> instead query over IPMI/Redfish and compile historical information
>> elsewhere. Can you tell a little more about the use case and
>indicate
>> why you would rather save history on the BMC than off the BMC?
>> 
>> A related topic which - as I recall - was discussed and never
>> implemented is the topic of metrics reporting. It's possible that
>the
>> community has moved further on these topics than I remember,
>though,
>> as I've been fairly out of the loop lately.
>> - Emily
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