Won, That date is actually a 0 value, meaning 0 seconds since 1-Jan-1970. Most of the time, the BMC stays running on 5V standby power, but if the BMC firmware restarts (e.g. after input power is lost or unplugged), it starts over and starts its clock value at 0 until BIOS comes up and gives it the real clock value. So, you'd expect to see a "Pre-init timestamp" in this case because the SEL shows that the input power was lost.
Andy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Al Chu Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:34 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [Freeipmi-devel] Re: SEL datestamp 01-Jan-1970? Hey Won, Well, I don't know if "normal" is the right phrase to use :-) From my experiences, many motherboards do report incorrect timestamps. FreeIPMI simply parses whatever information is on the motherboard. So if it is given a bad timestamp, it will output whatever that timestamp equates to. Al On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 08:29 -0800, Won De Erick wrote: > Hi All, > > it seems that the CMOS battery is just fine. I've replicated this to several similar boxes. > > Is this related to how freeipmi parses logs? or this is just normal? > > Thanks in advance. > > Won > > > --- On Fri, 2/13/09, Won De Erick <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Al, > > > > I noticed the following erroneous datestamps when viewing > > SEL. > > > > #ipmi-sel > > 144:08-Feb-2009 03:51:08:System Event System > > Event:Timestamp Clock Synch > > 164:08-Feb-2009 03:51:03:System Event System > > Event:Timestamp Clock Synch > > 184:08-Feb-2009 03:51:25:System Event System Event:OEM > > System Boot Event > > ... > > 444:01-Jan-1970 08:00:11:Power Supply Power Supply 2:Power > > Supply input lost (AC/DC) > > 464:01-Jan-1970 08:00:12:Power Unit Power > > Redundancy:Entered from Non-redundant:Insufficient Resources > > 484:01-Jan-1970 08:00:50:System Event System > > Event:Timestamp Clock Synch > > 504:10-Feb-2009 11:45:09:System Event System > > Event:Timestamp Clock Synch > > > > I've replicated this to several machines. Though the > > CMOS battery could be the potential reason, I want to know > > if ipmi-sel is related to this, or has something to do with > > this. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Won > > > > -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel The information contained in this document is CONFIDENTIAL and property of Kontron. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited without express written consent of Kontron. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of the original message and enclosed attachments. _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
