IPMCTL-DUMP-SESSION(1)

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, in ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

💾 ipmctl-dump-session — bestie edition 💾

okay so this is the ipmctl-dump-session page from the ipmctl manual, section 1, and it's genuinely one of the most useful little gremlins in the whole toolset. sit down, grab a boba, we're doing this. 🧋✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ipmctl-dump-session — dumps content captured during a recording session. that's it, that's the whole job. it takes the recording and yeets it into a file. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ipmctl dump [OPTIONS] -destination (path) -session

look at her. so short. so powerful. no cap. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: this command dumps content captured during a recording session. and what's in that captured content, you ask? bestie, it's a whole lil time capsule — ACPI, SMBIOS tables, plus FIS requests and responses. all of it. captured. dumped. iconic. 🔥

And the resulting session file that gets generated? oh she's special. you can use that file to playback commands recorded on a real platform in a simulated environment. which means — and this is the part that eats — you can debug issues offline. no real hardware required. no waiting on a lab machine. just you, your file, and your simulated environment. main character debugging energy, fr fr. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -h, -help — shows you the help for this command. your lil "what does this do again" safety net. 🫶
  • -ddrt — used to specify DDRT as the desired transport protocol for the current invocation of ipmctl. 💜
  • -smbus — used to specify SMBUS as the desired transport protocol for the current invocation of ipmctl. 💙
⚠️ note, and this one matters: the -ddrt and -smbus options are mutually exclusive and may not be used together. pick a lane, bestie. one or the other. not both. that's the rule. 🚫

🎯 TARGET 🎯

  • -destination (path) — an absolute or relative path including the filename, where the contents of the active session will be copied to. yes, the filename is part of it. don't forget it, or the universe will simply not know where to put your bytes. 📁
  • -session — specifies to dump the contents associated with an active recording session. this is the "yes, do the thing" flag. 🌟

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Dump the contents associated with the current active recording session to /tmp/session.pbr:

ipmctl dump -destination /tmp/session.pbr -session

that's it. that's the whole ritual. look at her go. 🚀

💀 LIMITATIONS 💀

To successfully execute this command, there must be an active recording session. that's not a suggestion, that's a hard requirement. no active session = no dump. it's giving "empty handed" and we don't want that for you. 😭

📦 RETURN DATA 📦

The resulting file includes NFIT, PCAT, PMTT and SMBIOS tables that are used by IPMCTL to determine the PMem module topology. 🌐

Plus PMem module data that is transferred to/from PMem modules over the mailbox interface. all packed in there together. a little gift bag of system truth. 🎁

⭐ SAMPLE OUTPUT ⭐

Successfully dumped 1060619 bytes to file.

one million sixty thousand six hundred and nineteen bytes. she ate and left no crumbs. 💅✨

and that's the page, bestie! this one's from the ipmctl manual, dated 2024-04-22 — go forth and dump responsibly, mwah 🫶💖🎀

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