Operation Options¶

-d

--daemon

Run continuously and report on link state changes and periodically

-r

--send-report

Report the optics health data to the Support Element (SE)

-q

--quiet

Be quiet and don't print optics health summary

-i seconds

--interval seconds

Interval in seconds at which to collect monitoring data in the absence of link state changes. A value larger than 24 hours (86400 seconds) is clamped down to 24 hours.

--module-info

Include a base64 encoded binary dump of the module's SFF-8636/8472/8024 standard data for each netdev. This matches "ethtool --module-info <netdev> raw on".

Example: Extract module information for the first adapter

opticsmon --module-info | jq -r '.adapters[0].netdevs[0].optics.module_info' | base64 -d | hexdump -C

General Options¶

-h

--help

Print usage information, then exit.

-v

--version

Print version information, then exit.