IPRDUMP(8)

💖 IPRDUMP(8) 💖

okay bestie, so this is iprdump, the IBM Power RAID adapter dump utility, living in the System Manager's Manual section of your local man pages. she's an 8, so she's a system admin girly, not a lil userland baby. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

iprdump [-d directory]

iprdump --version --debug --use-polling --use-uevents

two whole moods, bestie. one for actually doing the thing, one for the flags-girlies. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so iprdump exists for one iconic purpose: gathering information when an adapter failure happens. like, when the RAID adapter is going through it, she's there to collect the receipts. 🫶

by default the dump data gets saved in the /var/log/ directory, with the prefix iprdump.#, where that # is the dump ID of the file. so yes, the filename literally tells you which dump it is. main character numbering system. ✨

the ipr dump utility will also make a log in the system error log when a dump is taken. not me being thorough. 💀

the way that iprdump should be started as a service daemon instead of run directly — that's the intended vibe. but ngl, she can also be started at any time and will properly handle adapters being dynamically added and removed from the system. she's flexible like that. 🌈

when you run it directly, it stays running forever in order to process any dump that might occur. forever forever. she's committed. and if you want her in the background, you can start it with iprdump --daemon to force it into the background. periodt. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --version — prints the version number of iprdump. simple. iconic. a little self-introduction. ✨
• --debug — enables additional error logging. heads up though: enabling this means additional errors get logged to /var/log/messages, so your log file is about to get chatty. 🗣️
• -d <directory> — the directory where dump data is to be stored. default is /var/log/. pick your fave spot bestie. 🎀
• --use-polling — do not use netlink/uevent notification; instead, poll for adapter and device configuration changes. old school, but she works. 💜
• --use-uevents — use netlink/uevent notification rather than polling for adapter and device configuration changes. and here's the tea: if not specified, polling will be used until the first uevent notification appears, then netlink will be used. so it's polling-to-netlink pipeline behavior by default. slay. 🔥
• --daemon — forces the daemon to be run in the background. bye bestie, she's busy. 🦋

👑 AUTHOR 👑

originally written by Michael Anderson <mjanders@us.ibm.com>. rewritten for the 2.6 kernel by Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>. two legends, one utility. 🫶

and that's the whole page bestie!! this little masterpiece is from February 2005, and it's the IPRDUMP(8) page from the System Manager's Manual. no cap, she's been serving since 2005 and she's still here. 💖 mwah, go take care of your adapters. 😭💅