[chad_smith@hp.com: RE: [peter@chubb.wattle.id.au: Re: [Linux-ia64] Another stupid lo gging question

[chad_smith@hp.com: RE: [peter@chubb.wattle.id.au: Re: [Linux-ia64] Another stupid lo gging question

[Matthew Wilcox]

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Subject: RE: [peter@chubb.wattle.id.au: Re: [Linux-ia64] Another stupid lo
	gging question...]
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 07:21:24 -0800 
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 Hey Willy, 

   Here's the magic:

1) Power off system
2) Enter CLI -  [ESC],(
3) Type: ipmi c8 03 00 05 00
4) Type: ipmi c8 03 13 05 1e
5) Exit CLI (or use it to power on system)
6) Power on system

This will clear all the EFI, SAL, BMC, and Console Tokens from both the
NVRam and BMC so they get reinitialized.

I'll try writing up a simple html howto for translation of IPMI commands
into something useful because as far as I'm concerned, using the IPMI spec
is rocket science.

Chad


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Subject: [peter@chubb.wattle.id.au: Re: [Linux-ia64] Another stupid
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From: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:06:37 +1000
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>,
    linux-ia64@linuxia64.org,
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>>>>> "Matthew" = Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> 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


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[chad_smith@hp.com: RE: [peter@chubb.wattle.id.au: Re: [Linux-ia64] Another stupid lo gging question

[Peter Chubb]

>>>>> "Chad" = Chad Smith  writes:


Chad> I'll try writing up a simple html howto for translation of
Chad> IPMI commands into something useful because as far as I'm
Chad> concerned, using the IPMI spec is rocket science.

I've stuck the info you and Alex gave me on the Gelato IA64 wiki, at 
http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/IA64wiki/IPMI_20Recipes?action=show

Feel free to edit this page (and add other pages) to add more IPMI
recipes (and to fix my errors, if any).

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Dr Peter Chubb				    peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au
You are lost in a maze of BitKeeper repositories, all almost the same.