Re: [Freeipmi-devel] freeipmi sel vs. EFI SELView

[Anand Babu]

,----[ Robin Goldstone <address@hidden> ]
| We recently had occasion to send a bunch of sel logs to Intel for
| their analysis of some failures we've been seeing on our tiger4
| nodes (FRB3 timeouts).  We gathered logs using the freeipmi sel
| utility and also at Intel's request we sent EFI SELView logs.  The
| Intel engineer (Bryan Rice) offered this feedback on the freeipmi
| sel output:
| 
| > Two things with Free IPMI SEL viewer that I would point out.  1.
| > SELVIEW prints out description of post error which is valuable for
| > debug while Free IPMI SEL Viewer does not.
| >   *SELVIEW : System Firmware Error (POST Error). POST Code: 8140 -
| >              Processor 01: failed FRB level 3 timer.
| >   *Free IPMI SEL viewer :   System Firmware Error (POST Error)
| >
| > 2.  SELVIEW prints out description of processor error while Free
| > IPMI SEL Viewer prints out.
| >    *SELVIEW :  Correctable error in Processor CPU2 - J7M1D
| >    *Free IPMI SEL viewer :   Processor #0:IERR:SMI Handler
| 
| Can the freeipmi sel tool be improved to produce output that matches
| that of SELView?
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Thanks for reporting. It is very important for "sel" utility to
provide as much useful info as possible to aid troubleshooting.  

Now I will have to dig outside the IPMI specification to decode
these platform/system specific error descriptions. I will include this 
in my TODO list with higher priority. 

Rick Moen, Please file this as a support request.

Thanks
-- 
Anand Babu
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