1IPRDUMP(8) System Manager's Manual IPRDUMP(8)
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6 iprdump - IBM Power RAID adapter dump utility
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9 iprdump [-d directory]
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11 iprdump --version --debug --use-polling --use-uevents
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14 iprdump is used to gather information in the event of an adapter fail‐
15 ure. The dump data will by default be saved in the /var/log/ directory
16 with the prefix iprdump.# where # will be the dump ID of the file. The
17 ipr dump utility will make a log in the system error log when a dump is
18 taken. Iprdump should be started as a service daemon instead of run
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21 system. When it is run directly it will stay running forever in order
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26 --version
27 Print the version number of iprdump
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30 Enable additional error logging. Enabling this will result in
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34 Directory where dump data is to be stored. Default is
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38 Do not use netlink/uevent notification, but rather poll for
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42 Use netlink/uevent notification rather than polling for adapter
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48 Force the daemon to be run in the background
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51 Originally written by Michael Anderson <mjanders@us.ibm.com>. Rewritten
52 for the 2.6 kernel by Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>.
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56 February 2005 IPRDUMP(8)