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

[Ian Zimmerman]

mike> Once concern with this approach is that some data may be lost.
mike> I'd be all for this solution or something similer once we have a
mike> version of the sel program that dumps everything that Intels
mike> SELView does.

ab> Thats a valid point. Though FreeIPMI's "sel" utility displays all
ab> the human readable fields equivalent to Intel's tool, there are some
ab> more useful info inside the SEL. We need hex dump feature to capture
ab> the entire state.

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

ab> Ian, please note the "--append" argument.

I think this is better handled by some rotation logic in the calling
script, especially because the --hex-dump output is not uniform (it has
the stupid info block prefixed).  Like this:

echo -n "Capturing IPMI System Event Log ..."
logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.d/sel
sel >> /var/log/sel 2>&1
sel --dump-hex=/var/log/sel.hex
sel --delete-all
echo "done"

I admit another reason I propose this is because --append would
complicate the implementation.