Intel® System Event Log (SEL) Viewer Utility User Guide Document No.
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Revision History Date May 2007 September 2007 September 2007 September 2007 November 2008 July 2009 November 2009 Revision -001 -002 -003 -004 -005 -006 -007 Description Initial release. Updated to include the Intel® Server Board X38MLST. Updated to add Intel® Server Board S3200SH.
Preface About this Manual Thank you for purchasing and using Intel® Server Boards. This version of the utility supports Intel® Server Boards S7000FC4UR, X38MLST, S5400SF, S3200SH, S5500/S5520, and S3420GP This manual is written for system technicians who are responsible for troubleshooting, upgrading, and repairing this server board. The System Event Log (SEL) Viewer is used to display, clear, or save the SEL log on your server. For the latest information on your server, refer to http://support.intel.
Contents 1. Introduction .................................................................................................... 3 2. Using the Intel® SEL Viewer ......................................................................... 4 2. Using the Intel® SEL Viewer ......................................................................... 4 Installing the Intel® SEL Viewer.............................................................................................. 4 Launching the Intel® SEL Viewer .........
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.
2. Using the Intel® SEL Viewer 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.
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. 1. Copy all files and subdirectories from the utility released location into a folder on the hard drive. (for example, /home/selviewer) 2. Open a command prompt and change to that directory (for example, cd /home/selviewer). 3. Run Selview You can now run the utility.
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 3. It displays all the SEL records and a pull-down menu used for selecting the main functions available in the utility.
See Figure 4 for SEL Viewer Main Utility Window (Linux*). The default format in which information is displayed in interactive mode is the interpreted text format. Figure 4: SEL Viewer Main Window (Linux*) The interpreted data is displayed in several columns as follows: • Serial number of the system events being displayed. Starting with 1, and increasing by one for each event. The title of this column is “Num”. • Time Stamp. • Sensor Type and Number. • Event Description 1 • Generator ID.
For information on using the menu items see section Viewing the Intel® SEL Viewer Information window. 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 (Win PE*): Figure 6: SEL Records in Hex Format (Win PE*) 10 Intel® System Event Log (SEL) Viewer Utility User Guide
The following figure shows SEL records in Hex format (Linux*): Figure 7: 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 MID OEM Description Record ID Record Type Time Stamp Generator ID Event Message Format Revision Sensor Type Sensor Number Event Dir and Event Type Event Data Manufacturer ID OEM Defined Intel® System Event Log (SEL) Viewer Utility User Guide 11
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”. If you select “Hide SEL Info Window”, the SEL Info window is removed from the display area and the sub-menu text changes to “View SEL Info Window”. The user can again add the SEL Info window using this sub-menu.
In Linux* SEL Viewer Utility, Serial Numbers can be color coded based on the severity of SEL Event. This feature is currently available only on 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 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 9: 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.
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. Go To can be accessed by the shortcut CTRL+G. This feature is currently supported only on Linux*.
Uninstalling Intel® SEL Viewer To uninstall the SEL Viewer Utility in EFI, do the following: 1. Go to the directory in the command line prompt, where all your utility files are copied from the utility released location 2. Run ‘cd ..’ on a command line prompt. This will take you to a directory one level below. 3. Remove all the directories including subdirectories in the current directory where you are. This leads to the un-installation of the utility files.
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.
