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)