RE: new utility for decoding salinfo records

Luck, Tony
2005-01-11T19:49:52Z

> 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?

Ben's world view might be a little skewed by his test case :-)

http://www.californiadigital.com/thunder.shtml
[web page is out of date in regard to position on the top500 list, it
was pushed down to #5 in the latest list].

For this system you really wouldn't want to wake your system
admins for every single bit error that was reported (though
summarizing the errors in a weekly/monthly report would of course
be a good thing). I believe that salinfo_decode2 makes doing
this easy too.

-Tony