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6.1.3 Event Log
The BMC maintains a separate event log that contains entries such as power
events, environmental events, or chipset specific entries. This event log records
all the hardware events or alerts for the server. The logs are defined in different
priorities: informal, warning or error event entries, critical or non-critical events.
You can access the BMC System Event Log (SEL) through the menu shown in
Figure 6-1 on page 303, or by using tools such as OSA SMBridge, SvcCon,
Dynamic System Analysis (DSA), or IBM Director.
An example event log is shown in Figure 6-3. You can select Get Next Entry and
Get Previous Entry to page through the events.
Figure 6-3 BMC System Event Log entry in BIOS
The total number of events recorded is listed in the Entry Number field.
Tip: You might notice that several events have a time stamp of 1970. These
events are defined in the IPMI specification at Intel, and do not include time
stamp information. It fills the respective bytes in the event raw data with empty
values, which are interpreted by the SEL as a date in 1970.
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