/puppet-mcelog

Manages logging of CPU Machine Check Exception data (mcelog)

Primary LanguageRubyOtherNOASSERTION

Puppet mcelog Module

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Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Description
  3. Usage
  4. Limitations
  5. Versioning
  6. Support
  7. See Also

Overview

Manages the mcelog utility for x86-64 CPU Machine Check Exception data

Description

This is a puppet module for the installation and configuration of the mcelog utility. Which can be used either from the cli or run as a daemon that extracts and decodes Machine Check Exception (MCE) data.

Usage

Simple

include ::mcelog

mcelog

This class is presently the only public API in this module.

# defaults
class { '::mcelog':
  config_file_template => 'mcelog/mcelog.conf.erb',
}

  • config_file_template

    String defaults to: `mcelog/mcelog.conf.erb'

    The name of the [ERB] template to use for the generation of the mcelog.conf file.

Limitations

This module is extremely basic. A few obvious improvements would be to:

  • provide more configuration options; specifically enable/disable mce events being sent to syslog
  • logrotated setup of the mcelog log file
  • provide support for running mcelog as a daemon on EL5.x

Please note that MCE is only avaiable on x86_64. It /can not/ work and the package is likely not avaible on i386 hosts.

Tested Platforms

  • EL5.x
  • EL6.x

Versioning

This module is versioned according to the Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 specification.

Support

Please log tickets and issues at github

See Also