Chapter 3: Troubleshooting 3-7 System Event Log Figure 3-3 Clicking on the Event Log tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (shown in Figure 3-3) gives you detailed information on the System Event Log for the BMC. It shows the System Event Log version, number of log entries, free space for the System Event Log and the times of recently added and recently erased System Event Logs. Get System Event Log In the Get Entries group on the upper left side of the Event Log tab in the Viewing Window, you can decide how many logs you want to get from the BMC.
Click the button and type in the first and last numbers of the logs you wish to view, or click the button to get all the logs from the BMC. The logs retrieved from the BMC will listed as a table in the central part of the Viewing Window. Please refer to the IPMI specifications version 2.0 for detailed descriptions of each field. Some helpful fields: 3-23