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Server Board S5000PAL/S5000XAL TPS Appendix B: BMC Sensor Tables
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Appendix B: BMC Sensor Tables
This appendix lists the sensor identification numbers and information regarding the sensor type,
name, supported thresholds, assertion and de-assertion information, and a brief description of
the sensor purpose. See the Intelligent Platform Management Interface Specification, Version
1.5, for sensor and event/reading-type table information.
 Sensor Type
The Sensor Type references the values enumerated in the Sensor Type Codes table in
the IPMI specification. It provides the context in which to interpret the sensor, e.g., the
physical entity or characteristic that is represented by this sensor.
 Event/Reading Type
The Event/Reading Type references values from the Event/Reading Type Code Ranges
and Generic Event/Reading Type Codes tables in the IPMI specification. Note that digital
sensors are a specific type of discrete sensors, which have only two states.
 Event Offset/Triggers
Event Thresholds are ‘supported event generating thresholds’ for threshold types
of sensors.
o [u,l][nr,c,nc]: upper non-recoverable, upper critical, upper non-critical, lower non-
recoverable, lower critical, lower non-critical
o uc, lc: upper critical, lower critical
Event Triggers are ‘supported event generating offsets’ for discrete type sensors. The
offsets can be found in the Generic Event/Reading Type Codes or Sensor Type Codes
tables in the IPMI specification, depending on whether the sensor event/reading type is
generic or a sensor specific response.
 Assertion/De-assertion Enables
Assertion and de-assertion indicators reveal the type of events the sensor can generate:
o As: Assertions
o De: De-assertion

Readable Value/Offsets
o Readable Value indicates the type of value returned for threshold and other non-
discrete
type sensors.
o Readable Offsets indicate the offsets for discrete sensors that are readable via the
Get Sensor Reading command. Unless otherwise indicated, all event triggers are
readable, i.e., Readable Offsets consists of the reading type offsets that do not
generate events.
 Event Data
This is the data that is included in an event message generated by the associated
sensor. For threshold-based sensors, the following abbreviations are used:
o R: Reading value
o T: Threshold value