Sounds good to me. Perhaps what's best is I just add a note into the ipmi-sel manpage describing this.
Al On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 05:53 -0800, Andy Cress wrote: > Al, > > You could use pre-init or uninitialized, both are fine and mean the > same. > The IPMI spec doesn't say either way. > > Rather than mask out the 1-Jan-1970, however, in ipmiutil I display it > as is, for this reason: > If the power is removed, then restored, the BMC starts up with > 1-Jan-1970 00:00:00. > However, if the system is plugged in but not powered up to BIOS POST for > a while, > this would show up in the SEL timestamp as something like 1-Jan-1970 > 01:20:00, > meaning that the system was plugged in an hour and 20 minutes ago, but > not powered up yet. > > Masking the real data with a "pre-init" string, or masking the actual > sensor reading value as "unknown" is one of the faults of ipmitool, IMO. > > Andy > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Al Chu [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:44 PM > To: Andy Cress > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Freeipmi-devel] Re: SEL datestamp 01-Jan-1970? > > Hey Andy, > > Do you know if the phrase "Pre-init timestamp" is defined by some spec > (maybe outside of the IPMI one)? I remember seeing that ipmitool > outputs this when the timestamp is 0, but is this really the right > phrase or just what an ipmitool coder picked? I do agree that perhaps a > "Uninitialized" or atleast something else should be output instead of > 01-Jan-1970. > > Al > > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:50 -0800, Andy Cress wrote: > > 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 > > > 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. > -- 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
