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

[Al Chu]

Hey Holger,

I just had this thought.  It might be good to add another option to
ipmi-sel like "--output-vendor-event-string" or something like that.
(It would follow through with another formatting option in the sel-parse
library.)  I just remembered another vendor who has a
'get-sel-entry-long-text' equivalent OEM extension.  We could still
support the --interpret-oem-data, but you would get different output
based on what the user specifies.  For example, let's say this is the
default output;

System Firmware Progress ; OEM Event Data2 = 0x08 ; OEM Event Data3 =
0x11

If you specify --interpret-oem-data, you would get 

System Firmware Progress ; Fujitsu Magic Hardware Error Message

If you specify --output-vendor-event-string, you would instead get

CRITICAL CSS Component - Fujitsu Magic Hardware Error Message

Thoughts??

Al

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
> 
> 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.
> 
> Holger
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Albert Chu
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High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory