Awesome, thanks very much! (Talking more to Z about this offlist.) ^..^
On Nov 2, 2012, at 3:21 PM, ^..^ <zenf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have been hunting for a system that has a Generic Device Locator > so I can see what the output of the rather obscure "ipmitool gendev list" > command would give (well, 26 hits on google counts as obscure in > my book ;)) > > First, a bug - the ipmitool man page doesn't list the option at > all. You can see it with ipmitool --help > > # ipmitool 2>&1 | grep gen > gendev Read/Write Device associated with Generic Device > locators sdr > > # ipmitool gendev > Rx gendev command: (null) > SDR Commands: list read write > list List All Generic Device Locators > read <sdr name> <file> Read to file eeprom specify by Generic > Device Locators > write <sdr name> <file> Write from file eeprom specify by Generic > Device Locators > > The best explanation I could see was from the IPMI spec (page 564): > > Intelligent Platform Management Interface Specification > > 43.7 SDR Type 10h - Generic Device Locator Record > > This record is used to store the location and type information for > devices on the IPMB or management controller private busses that > are neither IPMI FRU devices nor IPMI management controllers. These > devices can either becommon non-intelligent I2C devices, special > management ASICs, or proprietary controllers. > > (It has a nice table and more details about this as well - if you don't have > the doc memorized it's at > http://www.scribd.com/doc/58588834/643/SDR-Type-10h-Generic-Device-Locator-Record) > > The source file "lib/ipmi_gendev.c" has some interesting comments > that appear to point to what it might output: > > lprintf(LOG_ERR, "Generic device: %s", dev->id_string); > lprintf(LOG_ERR, "I2C Chnl: %x", channel); > lprintf(LOG_ERR, "I2C Bus : %x", i2cbus); > lprintf(LOG_ERR, "I2C Addr: %x", i2caddr); > > lprintf(LOG_ERR, "Gen Device : %s", dev->id_string); > lprintf(LOG_ERR, "Access Addr: %x", dev->dev_access_addr); > lprintf(LOG_ERR, "Slave Addr : %x", dev->dev_slave_addr); > lprintf(LOG_ERR, "Channel Num: %x", dev->channel_num); > lprintf(LOG_ERR, "Lun : %x", dev->lun); > lprintf(LOG_ERR, "Bus : %x", dev->bus); > lprintf(LOG_ERR, "Addr Span : %x", dev->addr_span); > lprintf(LOG_ERR, "DevType : %x", dev->dev_type); > lprintf(LOG_ERR, "DevType Mod: %x", dev->dev_type_modifier); > > But these are comments and I don't really want to know the guts of > ipmitool enough to follow it around (my own systems don't print > anything!) Does anyone have more information about this, or, > better still, a working example of a command, output, and how it > might be used? > > Thanks! > > dan > > ^..^ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Central: Instant, anywhere, Remote PC access and management. Stay in control, update software, and manage PCs from one command center Diagnose problems and improve visibility into emerging IT issues Automate, monitor and manage. Do more in less time with Central http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein12331_d2d _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
