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NAME

       ipmiutil_sel - show firmware System Event Log records

SYNOPSIS

       ipmiutil sel [-abcflswvx -N node -P/-R pswd -U user -EFJTVY]

DESCRIPTION

       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.

OPTIONS

       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.

SEE ALSO

       ipmiutil(8) ialarms(8) iconfig(8) icmd(8)  idiscover(8)  ievents(8)  ifru(8)  igetevent(8)
       ihealth(8) ilan(8) ireset(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 1.4: 17 Feb 2010                             ISEL(8)