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

[Albert Chu]

Hey Dan,

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 11:04 -0700, Albert Chu wrote:
> 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)");

Ok, I think I get it now.  In combination w/ Holger's response and
understanding things more, there is no promise that all the text can
come back in one response.  I'll try and tweak your patch to iterate
over multiple calls.

Al

> 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