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NAME

6       ipmiutil sel - show firmware System Event Log records
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SYNOPSIS

9       ipmiutil sel [-bcflswvx -N node -P/-R pswd -U user -EFJTVY]
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DESCRIPTION

13       ipmiutil  sel  is a program that uses IPMI commands to to read and dis‐
14       play the System Event Log (SEL) which is stored by  the  BMC  firmware.
15       IPMI commands are issued to read each record, and, if specified, incre‐
16       mentally write records that have not  previously  been  read  into  the
17       Linux  syslog  (/var/log/messages).   This  utility  can use either the
18       /dev/ipmi0 driver from OpenIPMI, the /dev/imb driver  from  Intel,  the
19       /dev/ipmikcs  driver  from  valinux, direct user-space IOs, or the IPMI
20       LAN interface if -N.
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OPTIONS

24       Command line options are described below.
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27       -b bin_file
28              Interpret a file containing raw binary/hex SEL  data  dumped  in
29              binary  form,  such  as  that produced by "ipmitool sel writeraw
30              bin_file".  Each set of 16 bytes in the file will be interpreted
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34       -c     Clears  the  SEL  of all records.  If the SEL becomes full (free
35              space = 0), it no longer accepts new records, so the SEL  should
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40              Interpret  a  file  containing  raw ascii text SEL data captured
41              with ipmiutil sel -r, or some other similar utility.  Each  line
42              in the file should be in this form, with no leading spaces:
43              04 00 02 76 a9 4a 47 20 00 04 10 09 6f 42 0f ff
44              Lines not in this format will be ignored.
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47       -l N   Show  last  N SEL records, in reverse order (newest first).  For
48              some BMC implementations, this may not show all N records speci‐
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52              display interpreted entries,  and  include  relevant  hex  event
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55       -s     By  default,  all SEL records are displayed.  This option causes
56              only the records with sensor_type = 0x20 (OS Critical  Stop)  to
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59       -v     Only  show  the  version  information.  This shows:  the showsel
60              utility version, the BMC version, the IPMI version, the SEL ver‐
61              sion, and the amount of free space in the SEL.
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63       -w     This    option   writes   SEL   records   to  the  Linux  syslog
64              (/var/log/messages) or Windows Application Log.  It only  writes
65              SEL  records  that  have  timestamps  newer than the last record
66              written to syslog.  It saves the last timestamp in an index file
67              named /usr/share/ipmiutil/sel.idx (.\sel.idx in Windows).
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72              Nodename  or IP address of the remote target system.  If a node‐
73              name is specified, IPMI LAN interface is  used.   Otherwise  the
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77              Remote  username  for the nodename given.  The default is a null
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81              Remote password for the nodename given.  The default is  a  null
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87              Force  the  driver  type  to one of the followng: imb, va, open,
88              gnu, landesk, lan, lan2, lan2i, kcs, smb.  Note that lan2i means
89              lan2  with  intelplus.   The  default is to detect any available
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92       -J     Use  the  specified  LanPlus   cipher   suite   (0   thru   14):
93              0=none/none/none,       1=sha1/none/none,      2=sha1/sha1/none,
94              3=sha1/sha1/cbc128,  4=sha1/sha1/xrc4_128,  5=sha1/sha1/xrc4_40,
95              6=md5/none/none, ... 14=md5/md5/xrc4_40.  Default is 3.
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97       -T     Use  a  specified  IPMI  LAN Authentication Type: 0=None, 1=MD2,
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100       -V     Use a specified IPMI  LAN  privilege  level.  1=Callback  level,
101              2=User level, 3=Operator level, 4=Administrator level (default),
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104       -Y     Yes, do prompt the  user  for  the  IPMI  LAN  remote  password.
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SEE ALSO

109       ipmiutil(8)   ialarms(8)  iconfig(8)  icmd(8)  idiscover(8)  ievents(8)
110       ifru(8) igetevent(8) ihealth(8) ilan(8) ireset(8) isensor(8) iserial(8)
111       isol(8) iwdt(8)
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WARNINGS

115       See http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/ for the latest version of ipmiutil
116       and any bug fix list.
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120       Copyright (C) 2009  Kontron America, Inc.
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122       See the file COPYING in the distribution  for  more  details  regarding
123       redistribution.
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125       This  utility  is  distributed  in the hope that it will be useful, but
126       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
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AUTHOR

130       Andy Cress <arcress at users.sourceforge.net>
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