Re: [Freeipmi-devel] Extending ipmi-sel OEM information for Supermicro boards

[Albert Chu]

Hi Werner,

Thanks for the catch on the typo.  Fixed that up ASAP.

> 1) Can you maybe add this "AC Power On" to freeipmi, so that it is 
> displayed instead of "Event Offset = 00h"?

I can, although longer term it'd be nice/better if we knew the entire
event bitmask for this OEM sensor.  Like what other states does it have?
Perhaps you can ping Supermicro to get this information.

> 3) I've noticed that ipmitool 1.8.14 got support to display 
> Supermicro memory ECC information in the SEL correctly ("ID: 85 - 
> Supermicro memory ECC error display"):

I think all the information I would need is here.  Should be doable.

Al

On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 14:15 +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 
> I hope you are doing fine. After quite some time, I'm now again more 
> active in the area of using additional freeipmi-tools with Supermicro 
> servers. Especially we want to provide a second Nagios/Icinga plugin 
> (check_ipmi_sel) in addition to check_ipmi_sensor.
> 
> I have run ipmi-sel (v1.4.5 taken from Debian unstable) on a system 
> with Supermicro X9SCM-F.
> I have found that some events/sensor names are mentioned with "Sensor 
> #255" or "Event Offset = 00h":
> address@hidden:~# ipmi-sel --output-event-state -v 
> --interpret-oem-data --entity-sensor-names
> ID   | Date        | Time     | Name                                    
>           | Type              | State    | Event Direction   | Event
> 1    | PostInit    | PostInit | Sensor #255                             
>           | OEM Reserved      | N/A      | Assertion Event   | Event 
> Offset = 00h
> 2    | Sep-23-2014 | 07:50:12 | System Chassis Chassis Intru            
>           | Physical Security | Critical | Assertion Event   | General 
> Chassis Intrusion
> 3    | Sep-24-2014 | 12:01:29 | Sensor #255                             
>           | Session Audit     | Warning  | Assertion Event   | Invalid 
> Username of Password
> 4    | Sep-30-2014 | 08:15:00 | System Chassis Chassis Intru            
>           | Physical Security | Critical | Assertion Event   | General 
> Chassis Intrusion
> 5    | Sep-30-2014 | 08:25:57 | System Chassis Chassis Intru            
>           | Physical Security | Critical | Assertion Event   | General 
> Chassis Intrusion
> 6    | Oct-28-2014 | 11:21:49 | System Chassis Chassis Intru            
>           | Physical Security | Critical | Assertion Event   | General 
> Chassis Intrusion
> 7    | Nov-04-2014 | 08:55:28 | System Chassis Chassis Intru            
>           | Physical Security | Critical | Deassertion Event | General 
> Chassis Intrusion
> address@hidden:~# ipmi-sel --output-event-state -v 
> --interpret-oem-data --entity-sensor-names --debug &> 
> ipmi-sel-1-debug.txt
> address@hidden:~# ipmi-sel --debug &> ipmi-sel-2-debug.txt
> (I have attached the two debug outputs for your reference.)
> 
> In the IPMI web interface these entries 1 and 3 are displayed as 
> follows:
>    For ID 1:
>      Time Stamp: 1970/01/01 00:00:36
>      Sensor Name: OEM
>      Sensor Type: AC Power On
>      Description: AC Power On - Asserted
>    For ID 3:
>      Time Stamp: 2014/09/24 12:01:29
>      Sensor Name: (is blank)
>      Sensor Type: Session Audit
>      Description: Invalid Username or Password
> 
> My questions:
> 1) Can you maybe add this "AC Power On" to freeipmi, so that it is 
> displayed instead of "Event Offset = 00h"?
> 2) If noticed a typo ("of" instead of "or") in 
> /libfreeipmi/spec/ipmi-sensor-and-event-code-tables-spec.c on line 1080 
> (of the 1.4.6 source code) it should be "Username or Password" instead 
> of "Username of Password":
>     const char * const ipmi_sensor_type_session_audit_short[] =
>       {
>         "Session Activated",
>         "Session Deactivated",
>         "Invalid Username of Password",
>         "Invalid Password Disable",
>         NULL
>       };
>     It's only cosmetic, but could you fix this?
> 3) I've noticed that ipmitool 1.8.14 got support to display Supermicro 
> memory ECC information in the SEL correctly ("ID: 85 - Supermicro memory 
> ECC error display"):
>       http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipmitool/files/ipmitool/1.8.14/
>       
> http://sourceforge.net/p/ipmitool/source/ci/2d7fe326874a9f151173619b7c714d12cb4d2880/
>       
> http://sourceforge.net/p/ipmitool/source/ci/3a852a884922494cc8daf56dbd6056bfd34f10c8/
>     I have no faulty memory, so I cannot test it whether freeipmi has 
> support for this, too.
>     In case that there is currently no support for this in freeipmi, 
> could you consider adding support for it in the future?
> 
> Thank you once again for the great freeipmi-tools that you are 
> providing and you ongoing development,
> best regards from Austria,
> Werner
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Albert Chu
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High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory