From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:03:59 +0000 Subject: Re: new utility for decoding salinfo records Message-Id: <16868.8991.676455.65120@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <1105458388.22104.7.camel@quince.llnl.gov> In-Reply-To: <1105458388.22104.7.camel@quince.llnl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 07:46:28 -0800, Ben Woodard 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