User Guide

Intel

System Event Log (SEL) Viewer Utility User Guide

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. Open a command prompt and change to that directory (for example, cd

/home/Selview/Linuxr).

4. Run selview

B. RPM Installation:

1. Boot into Linux and unzip the SELViewer utility zip file into a folder on your hard

drive

2. Copy selview rpm from Linux/RPM folder local folder.

3. Install selview utility by using "rpm -Uvh selview-Vxx.x-Bxx.ixxx.rpm". This will

install the utility in "/usr/bin/selview/"

4. On RHEL/SLES after installing the rpm close the terminal from which rpm was

installed and then execute utility from a new terminal (example: "# selview").

5. Run selview

Launching the Intel

SEL Viewer

To launch the SEL Viewer, do the following:

1. Boot to target OS.

From the directory containing the SEL viewer files, launch the SEL viewer from the EFI

shell using the following syntax:

selview [/clear | {/save [filename] [/hex]} | /h | /?]

Note: a hyphen (-) may be substituted for the forward slash (/).

Examples:

selview

(This launches the graphical version of the SEL viewer.)

selview /clear