Sensor alarm logging in IPMI SEL

[Benjamin Fair]

Hi all,

We are looking for a way to log and report sensor events such as
over-temperature alarms and voltage regulator failures using the BMC.
The IPMI SEL seems like a good approach, as it matches industry
standards. There is already existing infrastructure for SEL in
OpenBMC, so implementing this seems like it would only require
modifying a daemon like sensord from the lm-sensors project to report
alarms over dbus.

Does this sound reasonable? Has anyone else already started working on
something similar?

Thanks,
Benjamin