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

   Warning, the commands given by Willy clears _everything_ in
nvram, this is not recommended.  Here's how you clear just the logs:

To clear the forward progress log:

cli>ipmi 28 C7 43 4C 52
 00                                                .

Clearing the system event log is a 2 step process, first get a
reservation ID:

cli>ipmi 28 42
 00 XX YY                                          ...
    ^^^^^ = reservation ID

Then issue the clear:

cli>ipmi 28 47 XX YY 43 4c 52 aa
               ^^^^^ = reservation ID from above
 00 01                                             ..

cli>se
SEL is empty.
cli>fpl
FPL is empty.

Thanks,

	Alex


Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from "SMITH,CHAD (HP-FtCollins,ex1)" <chad_smith@hp.com> -----
> 
> From: "SMITH,CHAD (HP-FtCollins,ex1)" <chad_smith@hp.com>
> To: 'Matthew Wilcox' <willy@debian.org>
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Wilcox [mailto:willy@debian.org]
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 7:39 PM
> To: Chad Smith
> Subject: [peter@chubb.wattle.id.au: Re: [Linux-ia64] Another stupid
> logging question...]
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> -----
> 
> 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,
>     gelato-technical@gelato.unsw.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Another stupid logging question...
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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
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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> Fisk
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