Re: [Freeipmi-devel] Feature Request for FreeIPMI SEL program

[Anand Babu]

,----[ Albert Chu <address@hidden> ]
| As time goes on, the sel records on thunder are growing larger and
| larger.  The sel program will only output all of the sel data and only
| allows the user to clear individual sel records or all of the sel records.  
| 
| Together, these limitations are making sel output extremely slow.  Its
| taking longer and longer to output all of the sel information. 
| Especially when users are interested in sel output from just the past
| few days.
| 
| We'd like to request features to output or clear sel records based on a
| range of dates.  Clearing records based on date ranges is more critical
| than the output.
| 
| LLNL folks, this one has been sent to support_at_californiadigital as well.
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There are 2 arguments already available:
  -c, --delete-all           Delete all SEL entries
  -d REC-LIST, --delete=REC-LIST   Delete given records in SEL

SEL Management:
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It is a bad idea to bother a poor (KCS) char device to retrieve the
entire SEL data every time. Correct way is to integrate FreeIPMI "sel"
utility in your cron job or boot script. Save the SEL data to
/var/log/sel and clear all the contents upon every during boot. 

echo -n "Capturing IPMI System Event Log ..."
sel >> /var/log/sel 2>&1
sel --delete-all
echo "done"

And the Sys Admin will invoke "sel" utility only to get the latest
updates. For all the old data, less|tail|grep /var/log/sel.

-- 
Anand Babu
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