Re: [Freeipmi-devel] Large number of hosts in ipmiseld

[Albert Chu]

Hi Kilian,

I'm a little surprised you got that error.  I'll see if I can reproduce
on my end and see what I can come up with.  Specifying on multiple lines
seems like something that can be done too.

I assume you're listing a very large list of hosts with comma
separation?  In your environment are you not able to list via range
format?  i.e. node[0-21]?

Al

On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 11:30 -0800, Kilian Cavalotti wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I would like to use ipmiseld to gather SEL logs from a large number of
> nodes (700+). Turns out that at some point, ipmiseld chokes if the
> hostname argument is too long in ipmiseld.conf:
> """
> Starting ipmiseld: Config File Error: overflow arg length on line 5
> """
> The hostname argument is 569 characters long.
> 
> There is apparently no way to split the hostname argument on multiple lines:
> """
> Starting ipmiseld: Config File Error: configuration option "hostname"
> listed too many times
> """
> although this is possible with ipmidetectd in ipmidetectd.conf
> 
> So I'm wondering what is the recommended way to aggregate SEL logs
> from a large number of machines.
> 
> Thanks,
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Albert Chu
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High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory