On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Peter Kjellstrom wrote: ... > > 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. ... > 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 at 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 at 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090210/32df1925/attachment-0004.sig>