catching ipmi events/alarms

[Ronan Mullally]

Hi Michael,

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, michalwd1979 wrote:

> Is there a way to catch a specific ipmi event or alarm (over temp. for
> ex.) and execute a user defined action on it using ipmitool, ipmituil or
> whatever that is open source? Now I am using Openmanage for it but I
> want to switch to open source tools. OM has an option to "execute
> application" on defined events, and I just can not find any other tool
> that can do this. I'm digging in ipmitool and ipmiutil docs for a day,
> am I so blind???

I think 'pefconfig' or 'getevent' in the ipmiutil package might be what
you're after.  I've never used it however, I keep track of IPMI events by
polling the SEL on various servers with a perl script every 5 minutes via
nagios.


-Ronan