From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Chubb Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 02:06:37 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Another stupid logging question... Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Matthew" = Matthew Wilcox writes: Matthew> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 10:09:02AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: >> Every time I boot my ZX2000, (which as it's a kernel development >> system is often) I get a little message that says the BMC event log >> is full. I can read the log --- it's not very interesting --- but >> how do I clear it (and the forward progress log, too)? Matthew> You need to use IPMI to do it. I forget which commands do Matthew> that.. That's what I was afraid of... The CLI interface to IPMI is not exactly user-friendly. And because it's not easy to see what one is doing (magic numebrs everywhere!), it's possible to screw up badly. I think that this means I do cli> ipmi 0A 47 0 0 43 4C 52 AA is that right ? I *think* this is the code to clear the system event log; whether that also clears the BMC event log and the forward progress log I don't know. The latter two logs are not mentioned in the IPMI 1.5 spec. The syntax is: ipmi netfnlun cmd data (BMC cli help) In this case, the netfn is `storage' (appendix G) which translates to 0x0A (table 5.1 of the IPMI 1.5 spec), and the LUN is zero (low two bits of netfnlun). The CMD is `CLR SEL' (0x47 appendix G of IPMI spec) and the data is 0 0 43 4C 52 AA (section 25.9) Peter C