[CentOS] What is the System Event Log?

[nate]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

> This suggests to me that my modest PowerEdge T105 probably
> does not support this service.

>From my brief look no it does not, it is very rare for desktop
or even workstation systems to have management chips on them.
And at least the T105 has no DRAC options either(not surprised)

> 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 see a large number of BMC-related ports in /etc/services ,
> but none of them seem to be active on my server.

Not related I don't believe.

nate