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Hardware Events Logged as Invalid SEL When Hardware Monitoring is Enabled on Windows Server 2003 or 2008

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Symptoms

After you enable Hardware Management on a Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 system and setup a subscription to monitor for Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IMPI) Hardware Events, you may see one or more events logged with a Description of Invalid SEL. 


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Cause

Hardware Events will only log records or events from the BMC System Event Log (SEL) and if the LogRecord Class Caption is listed as Other, the event will be listed as Invalid SEL. 

For information regarding LogRecord Class, please see the following TechNet article:

LogRecord Class
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa392287(VS.85).aspx


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Resolution

This is expected behavior as event types other than System or OEM have a fixed value of "Invalid SEL".


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More Information

For information regarding enabling Hardware Management on a Windows Server 2003 R2 or Windows Server 2008, see the following TechNet article:

Enabling Hardware Management
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781099(WS.10).aspx

For information regarding Hardware Management Event Collector, subscribing to and configuring the hardware events stored in the BMC’s System Event Log (SEL), see the following TechNet article:

Event Collector
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755420(WS.10).aspx


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Article Info
Article ID : 2510159
Revision : 1
Created on : 1/7/2017
Published on : 2/16/2011
Exists online : False
Views : 375