[Freeipmi-devel] Re: Fujitsu's iRMC S2 - support for "get SEL entry long text" within ipmi-oem

[Albert Chu]

Hey Dan,

Finally got a chance to look through your patch.  For the most part it's
fine.  I'll tweak a few formatting things to be consistent to other
parts of FreeIPMI, and I think I'll do "first" and "last" instead of "0"
or "-1" for the first/last SEL entry.  But I'm a tad confused on this in
your printf at the end:

data_len == text_len ? "" : " ... (text incomplete)");

Is there some subtlety of the get-sel-long-text OEM command that isn't
clear to me (b/c I don't own one and haven't seen it in action)??

Al

On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 20:35 -0700, Dan Lukes wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> The Fujitsu's iRMC has implemented proprietary function that return text 
> representation of SEL. It's important especially for OEM-Reserved 
> events.  For example, the ipmi-sel show something like this:
> 
> > ipmi-sel --interpret-oem-data --display=1008
> > ID   | Date        | Time     | Name             | Type                     
> > | Event
> > 1008 | Dec-16-2009 | 15:40:29 | iRMC             | OEM Reserved             
> > | Event Offset = 00h ; OEM Event Data2 code = 83h ; OEM Event Data3 code = 
> > 4Dh
> or
> > ipmi-sel --interpret-oem-data --display=1032
> > ID   | Date        | Time     | Name             | Type                     
> > | Event
> > 1032 | Dec-16-2009 | 15:41:42 | iRMC             | System Firmware Progress 
> > | System Firmware Error ; Unspecified ; OEM Event Data3 code = 5Fh
> 
> utilising the OEM function we can get something like this:
> 
> > ipmi-oem -- fujitsu get-sel-entry-long-text 1008
> > 1008 | Dec-16-2009 | 15:40:29 | INFORMATIONAL: Online firmware flash EEPROM 
> > 2 Version 3.77
> or
> > ipmi-oem -- fujitsu get-sel-entry-long-text 1032
> > 1032 | Dec-16-2009 | 15:41:42 |  Server Management Configuration NVRam bad, 
> > default configuration is used
> 
> The implementation si based on (not so good) documentation:
> http://*manuals.ts.fujitsu.com/file/4390/irmc-s2-ug-en.pdf
> 
> The patch that add the support for OEM/fujitsu/get-sel-entry-long-text 
> into ipmi-oem is attached. It's tested on iRMC with firmware 3.77
> 
> In the fact, it would be better to use the function as part of 
> interpret-oem-data within ipmi-sel, but it require better knowledge of 
> current implementation of ipmi-sel than I have. Someone with better 
> skills may implement it (using the code from patch). Then I can help 
> with testing, if necessary.
> 
> Hope it help, but you can freely ignore this message if not interested.
> 
> Dan
> 
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Albert Chu
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Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory