Historical Sensor Information

[Joseph Reynolds]

On 8/15/19 5:50 PM, Wilfred Smith wrote:
> Many thanks to Emily, Milton and Kun Yi for their quick responses and 
> pointers.
>
> Among the reasons for local historical data collection are independent 
> auditing, disaster recovery, debugging and increasing availability 
> during periods of intermittent network connectivity.
>
> Vijay is already participating in the Telemetry workgroup, so I’ll try 
> to get a download from him to see what can be leveraged.
>
> The requirement at Facebook includes the ability to retrieve 
> historical sensor information for a user-defined period and interval 
> on the BMC console (through sensor-util, and in the same format). 
> Based on my cursory review of collectd, its lossy multicast network 
> protocol wouldn’t allow this information to be re-synthesized with 
> fidelity on the

I share this concern and would prefer to have a more reliable way to get 
sensor data off the BMC.  This data may be valuable to help detect when 
the BMC is being attacked.

- Joseph

> client side, but it would be a huge win if we can get a few 
> concessions. I intend to study the Telemetry Workgroup’s progress 
> carefully.
>
> Wilfred
>
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