journal log of boot requests?

[Tom Joseph]

+1. Detailed journal logs help in a big way to debug issues.


On Thursday 25 July 2019 09:01 PM, Andrew Geissler wrote:
> I intermittently deal with issues where someone comes to me and says the
> "BMC is randomly rebooting my server". I then get to peel through the journal
> and look for things like this:
>
> Thu Jun 27 10:45:59 2019 witherspoon phosphor-host-state-manager: Host
> State transaction request
> Thu Jun 27 10:45:59 2019 witherspoon netipmid: Transition request
> initiated successfully
>
> And point out to the person that it appears an out of band IPMI command
> actually requested the state change.
>
> Certain paths like a external REST/Redfish commands or I think an inband host
> initiated reboot will only provide the phosphor-host-state-manager entry which
> makes it even more complicated to debug the "who did it" aspect.
>
> You can dig into the details of the journal entry and get the request but
> I think it would be nice to have a little more detail in the journal from the
> server side application that gets the request.
>
> I was thinking of adding a more detailed journal log in ipmi and bmcweb when
> these requests come in. I know we don't want to clog up the journal but state
> changes to the server are a big deal IMHO and should be fairly rare.
>
> Thoughts?
> Andrew
>