Re: new utility for decoding salinfo records

David Mosberger
2005-01-11T19:03:59Z

>>>>> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 07:46:28 -0800, Ben Woodard <woodard@redhat.com> said:

Ben> salinfo_decode2 also has the capability to generate
Ben> output that is designed to be easily parsed by a machine. This
Ben> is useful when you want to automate monitoring of large numbers
Ben> of machines. For example, instead of having scripts notify you
Ben> every time an ignorable single bit memory error occurs, the
Ben> monitoring scripts can easily ignore those errors and only
Ben> point out higher priority error conditions.

It seems a bit dangerous to me to encourage ignoring single-bit
errors. Perhaps it would be better to suggest to summarize these
errors?

--david