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

[Albert Chu]

Hey Holger,

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 08:25 -0700, Liebig, Holger wrote:
> > 
> > Hey Holger,
> > 
> > 
> > If you can, that'd be great (LMK if you begin something, so I won't
> > start to work on it too).  Because this wouldn't be a straight OEM code
> > -> string conversion (you're instead calling another Fujitsu IPMI call),
> > there will be subtleties that I know I'm going to mess up on that you
> > may just know off the top of your head.
> > 
> > The key OEM extension support would be added into
> > libfreeipmi/src/sel-parse/.  If you take a look in there, you'll already
> > see a whole bunch of files for SEL OEM extension support for Dell,
> > Inventec, Quanta, etc.  I imagine a Fujitsu equivalent could just be
> > plugged right in.  Based on the Dan's e-mail:
> > 
> [Liebig, Holger] 
> I have at least found the place to plug/glue this somewhat into the
> OEM record decoding functionality, so there is at least some starting
> point. Since this OEM command can  - or should ;) - decode all
> possible SEL entries, I will try to find the other places and see how
> it goes from there.
> 
> One problem is, that this OEM command requires admin privilege, which
> would have to be specified on the command line with -l admin.

That is annoying.  We could up the default privilege to admin, but my
general attitude is to max the privilege level at whatever is necessary
for the tool.  Since this is an OEM extension thing, it's a little
different.  Perhaps we could document it and if you run w/
--interpret-oem-data, output an error if user isn't specifying atleast
admin privilege???  Not entirely sure at this point, we'll ponder this a
bit more.

Al

> Holger
> 
> 
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