Intel® System Event Log (SEL) Viewer Utility User Guide SELViewer Version 10.0 /11.
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Preface About this Manual Thank you for purchasing and using Intel® Server Boards. This version of the utility supports Intel® Server Board S1200BT Intel® Server Board S1400 Intel® Server Board S1600 Intel® Server Board S2400 Intel® Server Board S2600 Intel® Server Board S4600 This manual is written for system technicians who are responsible for troubleshooting, upgrading, and repairing this server board.
Contents Legal Statements ........................................................................................................................ ii 1. Introduction .....................................................................................................1 ® 2. Using the Intel SEL Viewer ............................................................................2 Installing the Intel® SEL Viewer..............................................................................................
Figures Figure 1: SEL Viewer Text View .................................................................................................. 4 Figure 2: SEL Viewer Main Window (Windows & Linux OSes*) .................................................. 5 Figure 3: SEL log in Hex Format (EFI) ........................................................................................ 6 Figure 4: SEL Records in Hex Format (Linux*)............................................................................
1. Introduction The Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) records details about the system events in a log in flash memory. Each SEL entry is a single system event. The SEL Viewer utility provides the ability to view system event records stored on the server management storage device of a server. The utility displays the SEL records in either a text or a hexadecimal format. The utility also allows you to save SEL entries to a file and load SEL entries from a file for viewing.
Using the Intel® SEL Viewer 2. Installing the Intel® SEL Viewer To install the SEL Viewer Utility in EFI, do the following: 1. Copy all the files in the SEL Viewer release directory for EFI to a USB flash drive, or create an EFI-bootable CD. 2. Insert the removable media into the server. 3. Boot the server and press the F2 key when prompted to enter BIOS setup. 4. Go to the Boot Manager menu and select the option to boot to EFI shell. 5.
You can now run the utility. To install the SEL Viewer Utility in Linux* Pre requisites Java* Runtime Environment (JRE) must be installed. XServer must be running for the Intel® SEL Viewer GUI to work. A. Regular Installation: 1. Boot into Linux and unzip the SELViewer utility zip file into a folder on your hard drive 2. Copy all files and subdirectories from the utility released location into a folder on the hard drive. (for example, /home/Selview/Linux) 3.
selview /save MyFileName /hex selview /h Viewing SEL records in Interpreted Text Format 1. Launch the SEL Viewer. 2. The graphical display will display all the SEL entries. The following example shows the text view.
The EFI based SEL Viewer’s main window is based on a multi-column display pane as shown in Figure 1. It displays all the SEL records and a pull-down menu used for selecting the main functions available in the utility. See Figure 2 for SEL Viewer Main Utility Window (Windows & Linux OSes *). The default format in which information is displayed in interactive mode is the interpreted text format.
Viewing SEL records in Hex Format Use the View menu to choose how the SEL entries are displayed (raw hexadecimal format or plain text). Select the raw-hexadecimal format to view the SEL records in HEX format. The following screen shows an example of the SEL log in Hex format.
The following figure shows SEL records in Hex format (Windows & Linux OSes*): Figure 4: SEL Records in Hex Format (Linux*) The abbreviations used in the raw Hex display are as shown in the following table: Acronym RID RT TS GID ER ST SN EDIR ED1, ED2, ED3 Description Record ID Record Type Time Stamp Generator ID Event Message Format Revision Sensor Type Sensor Number Event Dir and Event Type Event Data Intel® System Event Log (SEL) Viewer Utility User Guide 7
Acronym MID OEM ExB1…ExB8 Description Manufacturer ID OEM Defined Extended Byte1 … Extended Byte8 (Supported only on S1400,S1600, S2400,S2600 and S4600 Server Platforms.) Viewing the Intel® SEL Viewer Information window This option allows you to view/hide the SEL Information window. When you run utility, by default, the SEL Info window is visible and the sub-menu is shown as “Hide SEL Info Window”.
Figure 5: Status Box In Windows & Linux* SEL Viewer Utility, Serial Numbers can be color coded based on the severity of SEL Event. This feature is currently available only on Windows & Linux*. A small panel is provided on the bottom right corner which has a statistical view of the SEL Records. It contains the count of the SEL events segregated based on the severity type (that is, Informational, Warning, Critical, and Others). This feature is also currently available only on Windows & Linux*.
Checking Intel® SEL properties (number of entries, add/erase time, and space available) To check SEL properties in the SEL Properties dialog, use the SEL | Properties menu option from the graphical SEL viewer window. Figure 6: SEL Properties Dialog Notes: The SEL viewer will display the Free Space Remaining in bytes. In Linux*, the SEL Properties dialog will not display Last Add Time and Last Erase Time. Clearing the Intel® SEL The SEL has a limited capacity.
Viewer Utility sorting can also be performed by clicking on the appropriate Column heading using a mouse (in case of text mode display). Go To Option (Linux* – Only Feature) Use the SEL | Go To option in the SEL Viewer main window to select a particular SEL entry given its Serial Number, User can enter the Serial Number of the SEL Entry in the textbox provided in the Go To dialog and the SEL Table on the Utility main window would be scrolled and that particular entry would be highlighted.
Appendix A. Exit Error Codes The command line version of the SEL Viewer may be used in a script to automate the tasks of saving the SEL, clearing the SEL, or searching the SEL. The following list of exit codes may be useful in the error handling section of the script. Integer Value 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 12 Interpretation Successful termination. Unable to clear SEL. SEL log is empty. Unable to read SEL entries. Unable to create SEL file. Invalid invocation.
