NAME¶
iprdump - IBM Power RAID adapter dump utility
SYNOPSIS¶
iprdump [-d directory]
iprdump --version --debug --use-polling --use-uevents
DESCRIPTION¶
iprdump is used to gather information in the event of an adapter failure.
The dump data will by default be saved in the /var/log/ directory with the
prefix iprdump.# where # will be the dump ID of the file. The ipr dump utility
will make a log in the system error log when a dump is taken. Iprdump should
be started as a service daemon instead of run directly. Nevertheless, it can
also be started at any time and will properly handle adapters being
dynamically added and removed from the system. When it is run directly it will
stay running forever in order to process any dump that might occur. You can
start it with "iprdump --daemon" to force it into the background.
OPTIONS¶
- --version
- Print the version number of iprdump
- --debug
- Enable additional error logging. Enabling this will result in additional
errors logging to /var/log/messages.
- -d <directory>
- Directory where dump data is to be stored. Default is /var/log/.
- --use-polling
- Do not use netlink/uevent notification, but rather poll for adapter and
device configuration changes.
- --use-uevents
- Use netlink/uevent notification rather than polling for adapter and device
configuration changes. If not specified, polling will be used until the
first uevent notification appears, then netlink will be used.
- --daemon
- Force the daemon to be run in the background
AUTHOR¶
Originally written by Michael Anderson <mjanders@us.ibm.com>. Rewritten
for the 2.6 kernel by Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>.
