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I see in the ipmitool there is an "add" command in the sel menu. It wants a file, but what format for that file is it expecting?

> ipmitool sel add file.txt
> Invalid Event: 0000f8b601000000

From the doc: http://man.he.net/man1/ipmitool

add 

                 Read  event  entries from a file and add them to the SEL.
                 New SEL entries area added onto the SEL  after  the  last
                 record  in  the  SEL.   Record  added is of type 2 and is
                 automatically timestamped.
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The format of the file is the same as output by ipmitool sel save {filename} and looks like this:

0x04 0x10 0x07 0x6f 0x02 0xff 0xff # Event Logging Disabled #0x07 Log area reset/cleared
0x04 0x12 0x83 0x6f 0x05 0x00 0xff # System Event #0x83 Timestamp Clock Sync
0x04 0x12 0x83 0x6f 0x05 0x80 0xff # System Event #0x83 Timestamp Clock Sync
0x04 0x09 0x01 0x6f 0x00 0xff 0xff # Power Unit #0x01 Power off/down
0x04 0x09 0x01 0xef 0x00 0xff 0xff # Power Unit #0x01 Power off/down
0x04 0x14 0x09 0x6f 0x00 0xff 0xff # Button #0x09 Power Button pressed

Loading this into the SEL will log events with the current date/time.

Compare output of ipmitool sel save {filename} with ipimitool sel writeraw {filename} to determine the byte mapping above.

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