syscfg to clear bmc log on

[Kent Nasveschuk]

That works good. I had to try it on a test box. I installed
dkms,openipmi and srvadmin-ipmi to do it. The 15 machines that I have to
clear the system event log on all have OMSA 4.5. I guess I will have to
upgrade first to do this.

Kent

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 11:16 -0400, Fred Skrotzki wrote:
> If you have IPMI enabled, and another computer on the network wit hthe
> IPMI drivers loaded you can just issue the command to clear the log
> without loading anything on the system.
>  
> ipmitool ... sel clear
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Kent Nasveschuk
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:16 AM
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> Subject: syscfg to clear bmc log on
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> 
> I found syscfg in the DTK2.1 tool kit. I want to use it to clear  the
> system event log. Is there a simple way to do this without installing
> everything under the sun? I extracted dell.tar.gz located under tools
> on the CD. When I tried to run syscfg from the bin directory I got a
> segmentation fault. I'm assuming that I have to install this so it can
> find all of the components. The system that I'm running this on is :
> 2.4.21-47.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 5 20:38:41 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386
> GNU/Linux
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 8)
> 
> The dos utility bmccfg --clearsel does the same thing only I can't
> shut these down. I've also tried  "omconfig system esmlog
> action=clear" but these don't have DRACs. delldset_v1.1.bin same as
> omconfig error messages. Could use some help on installing this to
> clear SEL.
> 
> Kent N 
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