[Freeipmi-devel] Fujitsu's iRMC S2 - support for "get SEL entry long text" within ipmi-oem

[Dan Lukes]

Hi.

The Fujitsu's iRMC has implemented proprietary function that return text 
representation of SEL. It's important especially for OEM-Reserved 
events.  For example, the ipmi-sel show something like this:

> ipmi-sel --interpret-oem-data --display=1008
> ID   | Date        | Time     | Name             | Type                     | 
> Event
> 1008 | Dec-16-2009 | 15:40:29 | iRMC             | OEM Reserved             | 
> Event Offset = 00h ; OEM Event Data2 code = 83h ; OEM Event Data3 code = 4Dh
or
> ipmi-sel --interpret-oem-data --display=1032
> ID   | Date        | Time     | Name             | Type                     | 
> Event
> 1032 | Dec-16-2009 | 15:41:42 | iRMC             | System Firmware Progress | 
> System Firmware Error ; Unspecified ; OEM Event Data3 code = 5Fh

utilising the OEM function we can get something like this:

> ipmi-oem -- fujitsu get-sel-entry-long-text 1008
> 1008 | Dec-16-2009 | 15:40:29 | INFORMATIONAL: Online firmware flash EEPROM 2 
> Version 3.77
or
> ipmi-oem -- fujitsu get-sel-entry-long-text 1032
> 1032 | Dec-16-2009 | 15:41:42 |  Server Management Configuration NVRam bad, 
> default configuration is used

The implementation si based on (not so good) documentation:
http://manuals.ts.fujitsu.com/file/4390/irmc-s2-ug-en.pdf

The patch that add the support for OEM/fujitsu/get-sel-entry-long-text 
into ipmi-oem is attached. It's tested on iRMC with firmware 3.77

In the fact, it would be better to use the function as part of 
interpret-oem-data within ipmi-sel, but it require better knowledge of 
current implementation of ipmi-sel than I have. Someone with better 
skills may implement it (using the code from patch). Then I can help 
with testing, if necessary.

Hope it help, but you can freely ignore this message if not interested.

Dan

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