Package: ipmitool Version: 1.8.18-3 Seen on multiple ProLiant Gen8 servers with iLO firmware v2.54:
if the BMC is reset (e.g. with "ipmitool mc reset warm", or through the embedded web server), the running instance of "ipmievd sel [no]daemon" starts logging spurious warnings about the SEL buffer being almost full; e.g.: /usr/sbin/ipmievd sel nodaemon Reading sensors... Waiting for events... No data available Get SEL Info command failed Power Supply sensor Power Supplies Redundancy Lost Asserted Get SEL Entry 5 command failed: Requested sensor, data, or record not found Power Supply sensor Power Supplies Redundancy Lost Asserted Power Supply sensor Power Supplies Redundancy Lost Asserted Power Supply sensor Power Supplies Redundancy Lost Asserted SEL buffer is 98% full, please consider clearing the SEL buffer Power Supply sensor Power Supplies Redundancy Lost Asserted Get SEL Info command failed: Requested sensor, data, or record not found Get SEL Entry 2 command failed: Requested sensor, data, or record not found (About the contents of the log entries, for purposes of this bug report it's enough to know that ipmievd is in substantial agreement with "ipmitool sel list" and with the view from the BMC's embedded web server. Only the "SEL buffer is 98% full" alert is clearly spurious; see below.) At the same time, "ipmitool sel info" reports: SEL Information Version : 1.5 (v1.5, v2 compliant) Entries : 6 Free Space : 928 bytes Percent Used : 9% Last Add Time : 07/04/2018 19:36:40 Last Del Time : 05/27/2017 08:45:32 Overflow : false Supported Cmds : 'Reserve' How one gets from 9% to 98% is unclear to me. Restarting ipmievd restores sanity, but only until the next BMC reset. Could ipmievd be caching information that is invalidated by the reset?
