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Event Message Severity Cause
The chassis is open while the
power is off.
Critical This event is generated when the intrusion
sensor detects an intrusion while the system
is o.
The chassis is closed while
the power is off.
Information This event is generated when the earlier
intrusion has been corrected while the
power is o.
BIOS Generated System Events
The BIOS-generated messages monitor the health and functionality of the chipsets, I/O channels, and other BIOS-related functions.
Table 16. BIOS Generated System Events
Event Message Severity Cause
System Event I/O channel chk.
Critical This event is generated when a critical
interrupt is generated in the I/O Channel.
System Event PCI Parity Err.
Critical This event is generated when a parity error
is detected on the PCI bus.
System Event Chipset Err.
Critical This event is generated when a chip error is
detected.
System Event PCI System Err.
Information This event indicates historical data, and is
generated when the system has crashed
and recovered.
System Event PCI Fatal Err.
Critical This error is generated when a fatal error is
detected on the PCI bus.
System Event PCIE Fatal Err.
Critical This error is generated when a fatal error is
detected on the PCIE bus.
POST Err.
Critical This event is generated when an error
occurs during system boot. See the system
documentation for more information on the
error code.
POST fatal error #<number> or
<error description>.
Critical This event is generated when a fatal error
occurs during system boot. For more
information, see POST Code Errors.
Memory Spared redundancy lost.
Critical This event is generated when memory spare
is no longer redundant.
Memory Mirrored redundancy
lost.
Critical This event is generated when memory
mirroring is no longer redundant.
Memory RAID redundancy lost.
Critical This event is generated when memory RAID
is no longer redundant.
Err Reg Pointer OEM Diagnostic
data event was asserted.
Information This event is generated when an OEM event
occurs. OEM events can be used by the
service team to better understand the cause
of the failure.
228 System Event Log Messages for IPMI Systems