NAME¶

opal_errd - Daemon to read/parse OPAL platform error(s)/event(s)

SYNOPSIS¶

opal_errd [-e file] [-m max] [-o dir] [-s sysfs] [-n max] [-a days] [-D | -w]

DESCRIPTION¶

Reads OPAL platform logs from sysfs and writes them to individual files under /var/log/opal-elog. Parses required fields from log and writes one line summary to syslog. Also acknowledges platform log.

OPTIONS¶

-e file

Specify custom path to OPAL dump extractor tool (default: /usr/sbin/extract_opal_dump)

-m max

Maximum number of dumps of a specific type to be retained

-o dir

Directory to save error/event logs (default: /var/log/opal-elog)

-s sysfs

Custom path to sysfs

-n max

Maximum number of elogs to keep (default: 1000). If -c is not specified, 20% of this will be used for the serviceable elogs.

-c max

Maximum number of serviceable elogs to keep (default: 200)

-a days

Maximum age in days of elogs to keep. This option is deprecated.

-D

Don't daemonize, just run once

-w

Watch for new events (default when daemon)

-h

Print the usage message and exit

FILES¶

/sys/firmware/opal/dump

Directory to find dump files from OPAL

/sys/firmware/opal/elog

Directory to find error log files from OPAL

/var/log/opal-elog

Default directory to store error logs

/usr/sbin/extract_opal_dump

Default path to dump extractor tool

SEE ALSO¶

opal-elog-dump(8)