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smbios_sel

Author: Lars Michelsen

License: GPL

Distribution: official part of Check_MK

Supported Agents: Linux

This check reads the entries of the SEL (System Event Log) from SMBIOS/DMI on FSC Celsius m470 systems (and maybe others).

The check has been developed to detect ECC single- and multibit memory errors on FSC Celsius systems.

This check uses the information of the userspace utility fsc-celsius-m470-sel which reads the current contents of the SEL directly from /dev/mem. To work properly the dmidecode and fsc-celsius-m470-sel binaries need to be installed on the system and must be available in the PATH.

Please note that the fsc-celsius-m470-sel is still experimental and has not been tested on other systems.

You need to extend your agent on the monitored system using a check_mk_agent plugin named fsc-celsius-m470-sel.sh. This agent plugin can be found in the fsc-celsius-m470-sel-1.1.tar.gz archive in the doc directory of check_mk.

To enable this plugin simply copy it to the plugins directory of check_mk_agent on your target machines. By default the directory is located here: /usr/lib/check_mk_agent/plugins.

This plugin has been developed on FSC Celsius m470 but may also work on other FSC hardware platforms. Please tell us when you find some other software where this plugin outputs valid information.

The Nagios service will show the worst state which can be found in the SEL. Each known SEL record has a status level which is hardcoded in the check_mk check.

Check parameters

None.

Performance data

None.

Inventory

One service named SEL will be created on all valid systems.

Configuration variables

None.