ipmiutil_sel - show firmware System Event Log records
ipmiutil sel [-abcflswvx -N node -P/-R pswd -U user
-EFJTVYZ]
ipmiutil sel is a program that uses IPMI commands to to
read and display the System Event Log (SEL) which is stored by the BMC
firmware. IPMI commands are issued to read each record, and, if specified,
incrementally write records that have not previously been read into the
Linux syslog (/var/log/messages). This utility can use either the /dev/ipmi0
driver from OpenIPMI, the /dev/imb driver from Intel, the /dev/ipmikcs
driver from valinux, direct user-space IOs, or the IPMI LAN interface if
-N.
Command line options are described below.
- -a string
- Add a SEL record with a string of up to 13 characters. Longer strings will
be truncated. Note that this should be used sparingly, but would be useful
for changes made to the hardware or firmware environment, like "Fan
replaced" or "flash FW2.1".
- -b bin_file
- Interpret a file containing raw binary/hex SEL data dumped in binary form,
such as that produced by "ipmitool sel writeraw bin_file". Each
set of 16 bytes in the file will be interpreted as an IPMI event.
- -c
- Show output in a canonical format, with a default delimiter of '|'. (same
as -n).
- -d
- Deletes/Clears the SEL of all records. If the SEL becomes full (free space
= 0), it no longer accepts new records, so the SEL should be cleared
periodically (use checksel cron script).
- -e
- Show Extended sensor descriptions for events if run locally. This option
will attempt to get the full sensor description from
/var/lib/ipmiutil/sensor_out.txt, and also use its SDR to decode any raw
threshold values in the event, if present.
- -f sel_file
- Interpret a file containing raw ascii text SEL data captured with ipmiutil
sel -r, or some other similar utility. Each line in the file should be in
this form, with no leading spaces:
04 00 02 76 a9 4a 47 20 00 04 10 09 6f 42 0f ff
Lines not in this format will be ignored.
- -l N
- Show last N SEL records, in reverse order (newest first). For some BMC
implementations, this may not show all N records specified.
- -n
- Show output in a nominal/canonical format, with a default delimiter of
'|'. (same as -c).
- -r
- Show the 16 raw hex bytes for each SEL entry. The default is to display
interpreted entries, and include relevant hex event bytes.
- -p
- Port to use. Defaults to RMCP port 623.
- -s N
- Show only SEL events with severity N or greater. Severity 0=INF, 1=MIN,
2=MAJ, 3=CRT. The default is to show all SEL events.
- -u
- Show the SEL time as UTC and also get the SEL Time UTC offset if that
command is supported. The default is to convert the SEL Time to local
time.
- -v
- Only show the version information. This shows: the ipmiutil sel utility
version, the BMC version, the IPMI version, the SEL version, and the
amount of free space in the SEL.
- -w
- This option writes SEL records to the Linux syslog (/var/log/messages) or
Windows Application Log. It only writes SEL records that have timestamps
newer than the last record written to syslog. It saves the last timestamp
in an index file named /usr/share/ipmiutil/sel.idx (.\sel.idx in
Windows).
- -x
- Causes extra debug messages to be displayed.
- -N nodename
- Nodename or IP address of the remote target system. If a nodename is
specified, IPMI LAN interface is used. Otherwise the local system
management interface is used.
- -U rmt_user
- Remote username for the nodename given. The default is a null
username.
- -P/-R rmt_pswd
- Remote password for the nodename given. The default is a null
password.
- -E
- Use the remote password from Environment variable IPMI_PASSWORD.
- -F drv_t
- Force the driver type to one of the followng: imb, va, open, gnu, landesk,
lan, lan2, lan2i, kcs, smb. Note that lan2i means lan2 with intelplus. The
default is to detect any available driver type and use it.
- -J
- Use the specified LanPlus cipher suite (0 thru 17): 0=none/none/none,
1=sha1/none/none, 2=sha1/sha1/none, 3=sha1/sha1/cbc128,
4=sha1/sha1/xrc4_128, 5=sha1/sha1/xrc4_40, 6=md5/none/none, ...
14=md5/md5/xrc4_40. Default is 3.
- -T
- Use a specified IPMI LAN Authentication Type: 0=None, 1=MD2, 2=MD5,
4=Straight Password, 5=OEM.
- -V
- Use a specified IPMI LAN privilege level. 1=Callback level, 2=User level,
3=Operator level, 4=Administrator level (default), 5=OEM level.
- -Y
- Yes, do prompt the user for the IPMI LAN remote password. Alternatives for
the password are -E or -P.
- -Z
- Set the slave address for a local MC
See http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/ for the latest version of
ipmiutil and any bug fix list.
Copyright (C) 2009 Kontron America, Inc.
See the file COPYING in the distribution for more details
regarding redistribution.
This utility is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
Andy Cress <arcress at users.sourceforge.net>