[phosphor-host-ipmid] Questions about IPMI event message

[Chris Chen (TPI)]

Hi all,

I sent an IPMI command for testing the event message feature, the command and response as below, looks the event has been sent.

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$ ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.20 -C 17 -U root -P 0penBmc event 1
Sending SAMPLE event: Temperature - Upper Critical - Going High
Get SDR 0004 command failed: Invalid data field in request
Get SDR 0004 command failed: Invalid data field in request
Get SDR 0004 command failed: Invalid data field in request
Get SDR 0004 command failed: Invalid data field in request
Get SDR 0004 command failed: Invalid data field in request
   0 |  Pre-Init  |0000000000| Temperature #0x30 | Upper Critical going high | Asserted
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Then, I checked the result on the platform, I am able to see the enevt has been added in the "/var/log/redfish" (of course I also can see it on WebUI), however, it doesn't appear in the "var/log/ipmi_sel" or the result of using "ipmitool sel elist".

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root at hudsonbay-obmc:~# cat /var/log/redfish
1970-01-01T00:00:13.052207+00:00 OpenBMC.0.1.DCPowerOn,
1970-01-01T00:00:15.380591+00:00 OpenBMC.0.1.SELEntryAdded,2C0408666F00FFFF
1970-01-01T00:00:23.481564+00:00 OpenBMC.0.1.InventoryAdded,hudsonbay,Board,sssnnn-12312312
1970-01-01T00:00:32.281467+00:00 OpenBMC.0.1.SELEntryAdded,2C04218008F10C0A
1970-01-01T00:01:47.572079+00:00 OpenBMC.0.1.SELEntryAdded,2C04218008F00C0A
1970-01-01T00:03:42.089885+00:00 OpenBMC.0.1.SELEntryAdded,2C0401300109FFFF
root at hudsonbay-obmc:~#
root at hudsonbay-obmc:~#
root at hudsonbay-obmc:~# ipmitool sel elist
SEL has no entries
root at hudsonbay-obmc:~#
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So, I have 2 questions for this and hope someone who had experience with this could share ideas with me, I'll appreciate it:

  1.  Why the event doesn't appear in the "var/log/ipmi_sel" or can't be seen by using "ipmitool sel elist"? I expected it should appear.
  2.  What does "Get SDR 0004 command failed: Invalid data field in request" mean?

Things to Note:

  1.  The version of OprnBMC codebase I used is 2.10-rc1.
  2.  The image I built included "intel-ipmi-oem", "phosphor-logging", "phosphor-sel-logger", "rsyslog" and "entity-manager".

Thank you.

Regards,
Chris Chen

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