Intel SE8500HW4 5.7Event Filtering and Alerting, 5.7.1Platform Event Filtering (PEF)

Server Management Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4

5.7Event Filtering and Alerting

The BMC implements the following IPMI 2.0 alerting features:

ƒPlatform Event Filtering (PEF)

ƒDial Page Alerting

ƒAlert over LAN

ƒAlert over Serial/PPP

5.7.1Platform Event Filtering (PEF)

The Platform Event Filtering (PEF) feature provides a configurable mechanism to allow SEL events to trigger alert actions. PEF provides a flexible, general mechanism that enables the BMC to perform selectable actions triggered by a configurable set of platform events. The BMC supports the following PEF actions:

ƒPower Off

ƒPower Cycle

ƒReset

ƒDiagnostic Interrupt

ƒOEM Action

ƒAlerts

Both PEF startup delay disable and alert/non-alert actions after power low are not supported by the BMC.

The Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4 supports a maximum of 20 PEF table entries. Table 15 describes the 12 default configured event filters. The remaining eight entries are configurable via software. Each PEF entry contains four bytes of data for a maximum table size of 80 bytes. Associated with each PEF entry is an alert policy that determines whether the alert is a dial page or PPP alert, and over which IPMI channel the alert should to be sent. There is a maximum of 20 alert policy entries, with no pre-configured entries in the alert policy table.

Table 15. Default Event Filters

Event	Offset Mask	Events
Filter #
1	Non-critical, Critical & Non-recoverable	Temperature Sensor out of range
2	Non-critical, Critical & Non-recoverable	Voltage Sensor out of range
3	Non-critical, Critical & Non-recoverable	Fan Failure
4	General Chassis Intrusion	Chassis Intrusion [Security Violation]
5	Failure & Predictive Failure	Power Supply Failure
6	Uncorrectable ECC	BIOS (MCA Handler)
7	POST Error	BIOS: Post Code Error
8	FRB2 & FRB3	FRB Failure
9	-	Reserved (no source for Fatal NMI on this platform)

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