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NAME

       ipmiutil_getevt - wait for IPMI events

SYNOPSIS

       ipmiutil getevt [-abosx -t secs -N node -U user -P/-R pswd -EFJTVY]

DESCRIPTION

       ipmiutil getevt is a program that uses IPMI commands to wait for IPMI events sent from the
       BMC firmware.  These events are also sent to  the  IPMI  System  Event  Log  (SEL).   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.

       Some  server  management  functions  want  to  trigger  custom actions or alerts when IPMI
       hardware-related events occur, but do not want to track all events, just  newly  occurring
       events.   This  utility  waits  a  specified  timeout  period  for any events, and returns
       interpreted output for each event.  It is designed as a scriptable  command-line  utility,
       but  if  the timeout is infinite (-t 0), then this code could be used for a sample service
       as well.

       There are several methods to do this which are implemented here.

       The SEL method:
       This method polls the SEL once a second, keeps track of the last SEL event read, and  only
       new  events  are processed.  This ensures that in a series of rapid events, all events are
       received in order, however, some transition-to-OK events may not be configured to write to
       the  SEL  on certain platforms.  This method is used if getevent -s is specified.  This is
       the only method supported over IPMI LAN, i.e. with -N.

       The ReadEventMessageBuffer method:
       This uses an IPMI Message Buffer in the  BMC  firmware  to  read  each  new  event.   This
       receives any event, but if two events occur nearly simultaneously, only the most recent of
       the two will be returned with this method.  An example of simultaneous events might be, if
       a  fan stops/fails, both the non-critical and critical fan threshold events would occur at
       that time.  This is the default method for getevent.

       The OpenIPMI custom method:
       Different IPMI drivers may have varying behavior.  For instance, the OpenIPMI driver  uses
       the  IPMI  GetMessage  commands internally and does not allow client programs to use those
       commands.  It has its own custom mechanism, see getevent_mv().  This method is used if the
       OpenIPMI driver is detected, and no other method is specified.

       The Async Event method:
       This  only  gets  certain  Asynchronous requests from the BMC to an SMS OS service, like a
       remote OS shutdown, and get_software_id.  This method is  disabled  by  default  and  only
       turned  on  if the getevent -a option is specified.  This method is only supported via the
       Intel IMB and OpenIPMI driver interfaces.  There is an init script provided with  ipmiutil
       to automate the task of starting this async event daemon.
       # chkconfig --add ipmiutil_asy     (skip this if no chkconfig)
       # /etc/init.d/ipmiutil_asy start
       This   listens   for  IPMI  LAN  requests  for  soft-shutdown,  and  logs  the  output  to
       /var/log/ipmiutil_asy.log

OPTIONS

       Command line options are described below.

       -a     Use the Async request method, which receives SMS OS requests from the BMC using the
              IMB  or OpenIPMI driver interface.  This services remote SMS bridge agent requests,
              like remote OS shutdown and get software_id.

       -b     Run in Background as a daemon.  If this option is specified, normal output will  be
              redirected to /var/log/ipmiutil_getevt.log.  The default is to run in foreground.

       -c     Show output in a canonical format, with a delimiter of '|'.

       -e N   Wait  for  a  specific  event sensor type N.  The parameter can be in hex (0x23) or
              decimal (35).  The default is 0xFF which means wait for any event.

       -r F   Run script file F when an event occurs.  The filename can include a full path.  The
              script will be passed the event description as a parameter.  A sample evt.sh script
              is included with the ipmiutil package.

       -o     Only run one pass to wait for the first event.  Default is  to  loop  for  multiple
              events for the timeout period.

       -s     Use the SEL method to get events.  This polls the SEL once a second for new events.
              The last SEL record read is saved in /usr/share/ipmiutil/evt.idx.   Otherwise,  the
              default is to use the ReadEventMessageBuffer method to get new events.

       -t N   Set the timeout period to N seconds.  Default is 120 seconds.  A timeout of 0 means
              an infinite period.

       -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.

       -P/-R rmt_pswd
              Remote password for the nodename given.  The default is a null password.

       -U rmt_user
              Remote username for the nodename given.  The default is a null username.

       -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.

SEE ALSO

       ipmiutil(8)  ialarms(8)  iconfig(8)  icmd(8)  idiscover(8)  ievents(8)  ifru(8) ihealth(8)
       ilan(8) ireset(8) isel(8) isensor(8) iserial(8) isol(8) iwdt(8)

WARNINGS

       See http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/ for the latest version of ipmiutil and  any  bug  fix
       list.

COPYRIGHT

       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.

AUTHOR

       Andy Cress <arcress at users.sourceforge.net>

                                     Version 1.2: 17 Feb 2010                        IGETEVENT(8)