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

[Albert Chu]

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 05:20 -0700, Liebig, Holger wrote:
> > > One problem is, that this OEM command requires admin privilege, which
> > > would have to be specified on the command line with -l admin.
> > 
> > That is annoying.  We could up the default privilege to admin, but my
> > general attitude is to max the privilege level at whatever is necessary
> > for the tool.  Since this is an OEM extension thing, it's a little
> > different.  Perhaps we could document it and if you run w/
> > --interpret-oem-data, output an error if user isn't specifying atleast
> > admin privilege???  Not entirely sure at this point, we'll ponder this a
> > bit more.
> [Liebig, Holger] 
> At least some hint to the user would be nice. Since completion code
> 0xD4 is returned (insufficient Privilege), this could be potentially
> in lined into the output

Well, if we did nothing, a "privilege level insufficient ..." error
could would fallthrough from libfreeipmi/ to ipmi-sel's execution.  Not
good, but not terrible.  As I've thought about it more, I'm thinking the
--interpret-oem-data option should have a special case for Fujitsu
motherboards and report an error to the user just saying, "Use -l
admin".

> I'm also working on integration of Fujitsu specific OEM sensor
> information into freeipmi, at least this would show some better
> information for the SEL than today when running without -l admin but
> with --interpret-oem-data.

Cool!

Al

> Holger
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Albert Chu
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