1ISEL(8) System Manager's Manual ISEL(8)
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6 ipmiutil_sel - show firmware System Event Log records
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9 ipmiutil sel [-abcflswvx -N node -P/-R pswd -U user -EFJTVYZ]
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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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24 Command line options are described below.
25 -a string
28 Add a SEL record with a string of up to 13 characters. Longer
29 strings will be truncated. Note that this should be used spar‐
30 ingly, but would be useful for changes made to the hardware or
31 firmware environment, like "Fan replaced" or "flash FW2.1".
32 -b bin_file
35 Interpret a file containing raw binary/hex SEL data dumped in
36 binary form, such as that produced by "ipmitool sel writeraw
37 bin_file". Each set of 16 bytes in the file will be interpreted
38 as an IPMI event.
39 -c Show output in a canonical format, with a default delimiter of
42 '|'. (same as -n).
43 -d Deletes/Clears the SEL of all records. If the SEL becomes full
46 (free space = 0), it no longer accepts new records, so the SEL
47 should be cleared periodically (use checksel cron script).
48 -e Show Extended sensor descriptions for events if run locally.
51 This option will attempt to get the full sensor description from
52 /var/lib/ipmiutil/sensor_out.txt, and also use its SDR to decode
53 any raw threshold values in the event, if present.
54 -f sel_file
57 Interpret a file containing raw ascii text SEL data captured
58 with ipmiutil sel -r, or some other similar utility. Each line
59 in the file should be in this form, with no leading spaces:
60 04 00 02 76 a9 4a 47 20 00 04 10 09 6f 42 0f ff
61 Lines not in this format will be ignored.
62 -l N Show last N SEL records, in reverse order (newest first). For
65 some BMC implementations, this may not show all N records speci‐
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67 -n Show output in a nominal/canonical format, with a default delim‐
69 iter of '|'. (same as -c).
70 -r Show the 16 raw hex bytes for each SEL entry. The default is to
72 display interpreted entries, and include relevant hex event
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74 -p Port to use. Defaults to RMCP port 623.
76 -s N Show only SEL events with severity N or greater. Severity
78 0=INF, 1=MIN, 2=MAJ, 3=CRT. The default is to show all SEL
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80 -u Show the SEL time as UTC and also get the SEL Time UTC offset if
82 that command is supported. The default is to convert the SEL
83 Time to local time.
84 -v Only show the version information. This shows: the ipmiutil
86 sel utility version, the BMC version, the IPMI version, the SEL
87 version, and the amount of free space in the SEL.
88 -w This option writes SEL records to the Linux syslog
90 (/var/log/messages) or Windows Application Log. It only writes
91 SEL records that have timestamps newer than the last record
92 written to syslog. It saves the last timestamp in an index file
93 named /usr/share/ipmiutil/sel.idx (.\sel.idx in Windows).
94 -x Causes extra debug messages to be displayed.
96 -N nodename
98 Nodename or IP address of the remote target system. If a node‐
99 name is specified, IPMI LAN interface is used. Otherwise the
100 local system management interface is used.
101 -U rmt_user
103 Remote username for the nodename given. The default is a null
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105 -P/-R rmt_pswd
107 Remote password for the nodename given. The default is a null
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109 -E Use the remote password from Environment variable IPMI_PASSWORD.
111 -F drv_t
113 Force the driver type to one of the followng: imb, va, open,
114 gnu, landesk, lan, lan2, lan2i, kcs, smb. Note that lan2i means
115 lan2 with intelplus. The default is to detect any available
116 driver type and use it.
117 -J Use the specified LanPlus cipher suite (0 thru 17):
119 0=none/none/none, 1=sha1/none/none, 2=sha1/sha1/none,
120 3=sha1/sha1/cbc128, 4=sha1/sha1/xrc4_128, 5=sha1/sha1/xrc4_40,
121 6=md5/none/none, ... 14=md5/md5/xrc4_40. Default is 3.
122 -T Use a specified IPMI LAN Authentication Type: 0=None, 1=MD2,
124 2=MD5, 4=Straight Password, 5=OEM.
125 -V Use a specified IPMI LAN privilege level. 1=Callback level,
127 2=User level, 3=Operator level, 4=Administrator level (default),
128 5=OEM level.
129 -Y Yes, do prompt the user for the IPMI LAN remote password.
131 Alternatives for the password are -E or -P.
132 -Z Set the slave address for a local MC
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137 ipmiutil(8) ialarms(8) iconfig(8) icmd(8) idiscover(8) ievents(8)
138 ifru(8) igetevent(8) ihealth(8) ilan(8) ireset(8) isensor(8) iserial(8)
139 isol(8) iwdt(8)
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143 See http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/ for the latest version of ipmiutil
144 and any bug fix list.
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148 Copyright (C) 2009 Kontron America, Inc.
149 See the file COPYING in the distribution for more details regarding
151 redistribution.
152 This utility is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
154 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
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158 Andy Cress <arcress at users.sourceforge.net>
159 Version 1.4: 17 Feb 2010 ISEL(8)