On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
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No, the SEL is maintained on the BMC/IPMI-controller. In Linux you can (assuming you have /etc/init.d/ipmi running) view it with: ipmitool sel list
You will need OpenIPMI and OpenIPMI-tools (from base) for the above to work.
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I tried the command above, but it did not work. I found I already had OpenIPMI (which I have never heard of) installed, and I yum-installed OpenIPMI-tools . But when I ran the command I got:
[tim@helen ~]$ sudo service ipmi restart Stopping all ipmi drivers: [ OK ] Starting ipmi drivers: [FAILED]
This should not happen but essentially means that the kernel you are running does not have a driver compatible with the server you are running it on.
[tim@helen ~]$ sudo ipmitool sel list Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
This device is created by the step that failed above. Without a proper ipmi driver load you cannot access the BMC via a local device.
However, with or without /dev/ipmi0 you can access the BMC remotely with (assuming you have an IP configured etc.).
/Peter
Get SEL Info command failed