[CentOS] What is the System Event Log?

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, nate wrote:
> >Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
> ...
>
> >> How would I access it if it were available?
> >
> >You have to configure it first, how you do that depends, sometimes
> >you can configure it via openipmi.
>
> I just installed the OpenIPMI-tools package with yum yesterday on
> a Supermicro box that seems to be having overheating or fan
> problems.  This is my first time looking into IPMI monitoring,
> but looking at the contents of the OpenIPMI-tools rpm package, it
> seems to be missing some of the configuration files necessary to
> run things like the ipmievd daemon (e.g. no /etc/init.d/ipmievd
> script, only /usr/share/ipmitool/ipmievd.init.redhat

Yes, ipmievd is lacking a proper init.d script and if you want to run it the 
file you found above is probably the way to go (copy it to /etc/init.d/..., 
chkconfig, etc.).

But evd is not needed to talk to the 
IPMI-controller/BMC/service-processor/whatever. To talk locally the only 
thing needed is to start the ipmi service (init.d-file from the OpenIPMI 
package) and then, for example, "ipmitool sel list". 

/Peter

> , and the 
> so sample of the /etc/sysconfig/ipmievd file).
>
> Any suggestions on documentation covering configuration on CentOS
> systems?  I have no problems with RTFM, if only I know where to
> find TFM.
>
> Bill
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