title: How to write entry into the System Event Log (SEL) via ipmitool?
body: <p>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?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; ipmitool sel add file.txt
  &gt; Invalid Event: 0000f8b601000000
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  <p>From the doc: <a href="http://man.he.net/man1/ipmitool" rel="nofollow">http://man.he.net/man1/ipmitool</a></p>
  
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    <p>add </p>
  
  <pre><code>                 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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