This package is the Toshiba POS Sensor Drivers for Linux 3.1 instrumentation. It monitors temperatures, voltages, fan speeds on supported POS Systems mentioned below.
POS Systems supported by version 3.1 are:
The instrumentation will only run on the Toshiba machines in the list above.
The instrumentation may run on other operating systems but this is not supported by Toshiba at this time.
The toshiba-ipsd-suse-3.1.1-1.0.i586.rpm contains the user mode libraries and support files that form the main part of the instrumentation. This rpm requires that the sblim-sfcb cimserver and the sysfsutils packages are already installed.
% rpm -ivh toshiba-ipsd-suse-3.1.1-1.0.i586.rpm
This will install the libraries, update the SFCB repository with class definitions for RSS_NumericSensor and RSS_SystemEventLog CIM classes.
Most Toshiba customers will want to use RMA to allow interconnection of the instrumentation CIM classes to remote systems management software such as IBM Director. After install of the instrumentation the RMA General Agent daemon on the POS machine should be stopped and restarted in order to pick up cimserver repository and other system changes.
More about RMA can be found at: Remote Management AgentThe drivers log abnormal conditions to /var/log/ipsd/ipsd.log. For normal production usage there is no need to change this behaviour. In fact it is not recommended. If any problems surface however additional information may be logged for purposes of support.
To enable detailed logging edit the /etc/ipsd/log.conf file. Change the Level property to 4 to enable very detailed trace logging. You may also wish to change the MaxLength property if you wish to log for any length of time as the logfile will fill quickly. Recycle the SFCB cimserver so that the instrumentation libraries pick up the logger configuration changes.
Log Levels:
None
Mon Feb 06 2012 - Initial version
Wed Feb 22 2012 - Added RSS_SystemEventLog
Tues May 07 2013 - Version 3.1