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.TH IPRDUMP 8 "February 2005"
.SH NAME
iprdump - IBM Power RAID adapter dump utility
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B "iprdump [-d directory]"
.sp
.BI "iprdump --version --debug --use-polling --use-uevents"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B iprdump
is used to gather information in the event of an adapter failure.
The dump data will by default be saved in the /var/log/ directory with the
prefix iprdump.# where # will be the dump ID of the file. The ipr dump
utility will make a log in the system error log when a dump is taken. 
Iprdump should be started as a service daemon instead of run directly. Nevertheless, 
it can also be started at any time and will properly handle adapters being 
dynamically added and removed from the system. When it is run directly it will 
stay running forever in order to process any dump that might occur. You can 
start it with "iprdump --daemon" to force it into the background.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-\-version
Print the version number of
.B iprdump
.TP
.B \-\-debug
Enable additional error logging. Enabling this will result in additional 
errors logging to /var/log/messages.
.TP
.B \-d <directory>
Directory where dump data is to be stored.  Default is /var/log/.
.TP
.B \-\-use-polling
Do not use netlink/uevent notification, but rather poll for adapter and
device configuration changes.
.TP
.B \-\-use-uevents
Use netlink/uevent notification rather than polling for adapter and
device configuration changes. If not specified, polling will be used
until the first uevent notification appears, then netlink will be used.
.TP
.B \-\-daemon
Force the daemon to be run in the background
.SH AUTHOR
Originally written by Michael Anderson <mjanders@us.ibm.com>. Rewritten
for the 2.6 kernel by Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>.