check_openmanage not using my custom temperature thresholds

[C. Bensend]

> Openmanage has its own limits. From a random M600 server here, the
> limits for ambient temperature is
>
>   # omreport chassis temps
>   Temperature Probes Information
>
>   ------------------------------------
>   Main System Chassis Temperatures: Ok
>   ------------------------------------
>
>   Index                     : 0
>   Status                    : Ok
>   Probe Name                : System Board Ambient Temp
>   Reading                   : 16.0 C
>   Minimum Warning Threshold : 8.0 C
>   Maximum Warning Threshold : 42.0 C
>   Minimum Failure Threshold : 3.0 C
>   Maximum Failure Threshold : 47.0 C
>
> To be honest, I've never considered the possibility of anyone wanting to
> set custom temperatures *higher* than the OMSA maximum. I allways
> assumed that people wanted to use the custom limits to set the max
> temperature *lower* than the default limits. Clearly I was wrong :)

Yes and no...  I don't *want* to tweak this, but we have a single
server in a remote office in a wiring closet that just barely hits
43C each morning when people start showing up and things start
working a bit.  It causes a lot of nuisance alerts, so we were
playing with massaging the thresholds a bit.

> What happens in your case is that the OMSA limits kicks in. It is
> possible to adjust the OMSA warning limits, e.g.
>
>   # omconfig chassis temps index=0 maxwarnthresh=45
>   Temperature probe warning threshold(s) set successfully.
>
> It is not possible to adjust the critical (failure) limits like this,
> only the warning limits can be set manually. Also, I believe that when a
> server hits the critical limit, in the interest of self preservation it
> shuts itself down.
>
> The plugin could be made to ignore the OMSA warning limit if the custom
> limit is set beyond it, but I'm not sure that we want this in general.
> What do you think?

Now that I know what's going on (and how to adjust the OMSA threshold
if need be), I'd say keep it where it is.  However, if these details
were mentioned on the page:

http://folk.uio.no/trondham/software/check_openmanage.html

it would have saved me a lot of time, hair, and such.  Could this be
added?

Thanks so much!

Benny


-- 
"Show me on the doll where the marketing touched you."
                               -- "Mally" on Fazed.net



------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation
Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business
Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts
Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null