How to find out the Temp on a H70?

[jpor]

Hi Gurus,

We have had problems with the Air Conditioning in our Comms room and the room temp has reached 35C. I know the H70 is specced to operate at 40C. But is there a way of monitoring this by a script?

Thanks for your repsonses in advance.


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[alexhu]

I'm fairly sure you can't do this, but if the hardware overtemps you will get lots of error messages

Alex

 

[haexpert]

Not sure if any of the pSeries servers can actually tell you the abient temp, however I know the 7133-x40 disk enclosures do so if you have one of them attached to your server you can use the SSA utils to check the temp

 

[jpor]

Thanks guys.

Managed to find the command to use against the Temp Sensor on the H70( /usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/uesensor -l ) . And put this script together to let me know when the temperature hits past 30 degrees:

/usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/uesensor -l >>/dump_area/h70temp.out
##
temp=`grep Degress /dump_area/h70temp.out`

kount=`grep Degress /dump_area/h70temp.out |cut -c11-13`

if [ "$kount" -ge 30 ]

then

/usr/local/bin/mpack -s "WARNING!!! Current H70 Temperature $temp " /dump_area/h70temp.out ccsrvjzp@company.com ccsrvadr@company.com

fi

cp /dev/null /dump_area/h70temp.out

Thanks to those who replied.


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[RodKnowlton]

Good job, jpor!

I learning about a new tool, and this one's especially timely because I've got an H50 that's about to be moved to a computer room with HVAC that I'm not 100% confident in.

Playing around with it, I think you'll find that you can avoid all of that grepping and cutting with the following:

kount=`/usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/uesensor -t 3 -i 0 -v`

In case the arguments need to be different on your machine, here's how I found them for mine:

/usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin#./uesensor -a
3 0 11 30 P2
3 1 11 29 P2
9001 0 11 1410 F1
9001 1 11 1440 F2
9001 2 11 1350 F3
9001 3 11 1470 F4
9001 4 11 1770 F5
9001 5 11 1710 F6
9001 6 11 1440 F7
9002 0 11 5032 P2
9002 1 11 3427 P2
9002 2 11 5032 P2
9002 3 11 12077 P2
9002 4 11 -11767 P2
9004 0 11 3 P2
9004 1 11 3 P2
/usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin#./uesensor -?
./uesensor: illegal option -- ?
Usage: uesensor -l | -a
       uesensor -t token -i index [-v]

Using the commands terminology, the first column is token, the second is index, the third is status (prints without -v flag), the fourth is value (prints with -v flag), and fifth is location (only prints with -l or -a flags.)

By comparing the "-l" output to the "-a" ouput, you should be able to find the proper arguments to plug into the "-t token -i index -v" command for your machine and particular temperature sensor.





Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L

 

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