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EDAC-UTIL(1)						   EDAC error reporting utility 					      EDAC-UTIL(1)

NAME

       edac-util - EDAC error reporting utility.

SYNOPSIS

       edac-util [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       The  edac-util  program	reads  information from EDAC (Error Detection and Correction) drivers in the kernel, using files exported by these
       drivers in sysfs. With no options, edac-util will report any uncorrected error (UE) or corrected error (CE) information recorded  by  EDAC,
       along with any DIMM label information registered with EDAC.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Display a summary of the command-line options.

       -q, --quiet
	      Quiet  mode.  For some reports, edac-util will report corrected and uncorrected error counts for all MC, csrow, and channel combina-
	      tions, even if the current count of errors is zero. The --quiet flag will suppress the display of any locations  with  zero  errors,
	      thus  creating a more terse report. No output will be generated if there are zero total errors currently recorded by EDAC. Addition-
	      ally, the use of --quiet will suppress all informational and debug messages, displaying only fatal errors.

       -v, --verbose
	      Increase verbosity. Multiple -v's may be used.

       -s, --status
	      Displays the current status of EDAC drivers. edac-util will report whether it detects that EDAC drivers are loaded, and  the  number
	      of memory controllers (MCs) found in sysfs. In verbose mode, the MC id and name of each controller will also be printed.

       -r, --report=report,...
	      Specify  the report to generate. Currently, the available reports are default, simple, full, ue, and ce.	These reports are detailed
	      in the EDAC REPORTS section below. More than one report may be specified in a comma-separated list.

EDAC REPORTS

       default
	      The default edac-util report is generated when the program is run without any options. If there are no errors logged by  EDAC,  this
	      report  will  display "No errors to report." to stdout. Otherwise, error counts for each MC, csrow, channel combination with attrib-
	      uted errors are displayed, along with corresponding DIMM labels, if these labels have been registered in sysfs.

	      The default report will also display any errors that do not have any DIMM information. These errors occur when errors  are  reported
	      in  the memory controller overflow register, indicating that more than one error occurred during a given EDAC poll cycle. It is usu-
	      ally obvious from which DIMM locations these errors were generated.

       simple The simple report reports total corrected and uncorrected errors for each MC detected on the system. It also  displays  a  tally	of
	      total errors. With the --quiet option, only non-zero error counts are displayed.

       full   The  full  report  generates  a line of output for every MC, csrow, channel combination found in EDAC sysfs. This includes counts of
	      errors with no information ("noinfo" errors). Output is of the form:

	      MC:(csrow|noinfo):(label|all):(UE|CE):count

	      With the --quiet option, only non-zero error counts will be displayed.

       ue     This report simply displays the total number of Uncorrected Errors (UEs) detected on the system.	With the  --quiet  option,  output
	      will be suppressed unless there are 1 or more errors to report.

       ce     This report simply displays the total number of Corrected Errors (CEs) detected on the system.  With the --quiet option, output will
	      be suppressed unless there are 1 or more errors to report.

SEE ALSO

       edac(3), edac-ctl(8)

edac-utils-0.18-1						    2011-11-09							      EDAC-UTIL(1)

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RAS-MC-CTL(8)						RAS memory controller admin utility					     RAS-MC-CTL(8)

NAME

       ras-mc-ctl - RAS memory controller admin utility

SYNOPSIS

       ras-mc-ctl [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       The  ras-mc-ctl	program  is  a perl(1) script which performs some useful RAS administration tasks on EDAC (Error Detection and Correction)
       drivers.

OPTIONS

       --help Display a brief usage message.

       --mainboard
	      Print mainboard vendor and model for this hardware, if available.  The method used by ras-mc-ctl to obtain the mainboard vendor  and
	      model information for the current system is described below in the MAINBOARD CONFIGURATION section.

       --status
	      Print the status of EDAC drivers (loaded or unloaded).

       --quiet
	      Be less verbose when executing an operation.

       --register-labels
	      Register	motherboard DIMM labels into EDAC driver sysfs files.  This option uses the detected mainboard manufacturer and model num-
	      ber in combination with a "labels database" found in any of the files under /etc/ras/dimm_labels.d/* or in  the  labels.db  file	at
	      /etc/ras/dimm_labels.db. An entry for the current hardware must exist in the labels database for this option to do anything.

       --print-labels
	      Display the configured labels for the current hardware, as well as the current labels registered with EDAC.

       --guess-labels
	      Print DMI labels, when bank locator is available at the DMI table.  It helps to fill the labels database at /etc/ras/dimm_labels.d/.

       --labeldb=DB
	      Specify an alternate location for the labels database.

       --delay=time
	      Specify a delay of ime seconds before registering dimm labels.  Only meaninful if used together with --register-labels.

       --layout
	      Prints  the  memory  layout as detected by the EDAC driver. Useful to check if the EDAC driver is properly detecting the memory con-
	      troller architecture.

MAINBOARD CONFIGURATION

       The ras-mc-ctl script uses the following method to determine the current system's mainboard vendor and model information:

       1.  If the config file /etc/edac/mainboard exists, then it is parsed by ras-mc-ctl. The mainboard config file has the following simple syn-
	   tax:

		  vendor = <mainboard vendor string>
		  model =  <mainboard model string>
		  script = <script to gather mainboard information>

	   Where  anything  after a '#' character on a line is considered a comment.  If the keyword script is specified, then that script or exe-
	   cutable is run by ras-mc-ctl to gather the mainboard vendor and model information. The script should write the resulting information on
	   stdout in the same format as the mainboard config file.

       2.  If no mainboard config file exists, then ras-mc-ctl will attempt to read DMI information from the sysfs files

		/sys/class/dmi/id/board_vendor
		/sys/class/dmi/id/board_name

       3.  If  the sysfs files above do not exist, then ras-mc-ctl will fall back to parsing output of the dmidecode(8) utility. Use of this util-
	   ity will most often require that ras-mc-ctl be run as root.

SEE ALSO

       fBrasdaemon(1)

																     RAS-MC-CTL(8)
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