PowerScale: OneFS: Energy Star monitoring using the command isi_estar

Summary: The isi_estar command displays two sensor values which are used to gain Energy Star 2.0 compliance. Only certain node types are supported.

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Instructions

Displaying Energy Star sensor values is only supported using command line using isi_estar and values are not cached for more than 5 seconds. Here are the options:
 

powerscale# isi_estar -h
usage: isi_estar [-h] [-d] [-m]

Display Energy Star sensor values

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -d, --debug    Turn on debugging output
  -m, --machine  Show Energy Star information in machine format


If you would like to sample isi_estar output at 10 second intervals, here is an example:

powerscale# while true;do date;isi_estar;echo;sleep 10;done

Thu Jul 29 18:31:46 GMT 2021

Input power:             440.000

Inlet air temperature:   25.000



Thu Jul 29 18:31:57 GMT 2021

Input power:             440.000

Inlet air temperature:   25.000



You could redirect the output to a file:

# mkdir -p /ifs/data/EnergyStar/
# while true;do date;isi_estar;echo;sleep 10;done >> /ifs/data/EnergyStar/estar.output.txt


If you would like the output values without the labels, use the -m option:
 

powerscale# isi_estar -m
440.000 25.000


The command is also available in compliance mode using sudo:

powerscale-comp% sudo isi_estar

Thu Jul 29 18:45:46 GMT 2021

Input power:             440.000

Inlet air temperature:   25.000


SUPPORTED NODE TYPES

The following node types are supported:
PowerScale
  • F200
  • F600
  • F900
Isilon Generation 6
  • F800, F810
  • H400, H500, H600
  • A200, A2000
Isilon Generation 6.5
  • A300, A3000
  • H700, H7000

All other node types are unsupported and display an error message:

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Affected Products

Isilon A200, Isilon A2000, Isilon F800, Isilon F810, Isilon Gen6.5, Isilon H400, Isilon H500, Isilon H600, PowerScale F200, PowerScale F600, PowerScale F900

Products

Isilon, PowerScale OneFS
Article Properties
Article Number: 000190541
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 16 Dec 2025
Version:  2
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