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[James Feist]

On 6/22/2020 1:46 PM, Matt Spinler wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> Something I forgot below - when building up our event logs, I have about 
> a dozen fields (mostly OEM)
> that I have to get from the OpenBMC event log's corresponding PEL (IBM's 
> enterprise log format).
> 
> PELs aren't on D-Bus for a few reasons, such as they can be several KB 
> in size and consist of several
> dozen discrete fields, so that rules out bmcweb getting them that way.

Would doing something like having the fields in the journal with a link 
to a file work? See this design for more info: 
https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/architecture/redfish-logging-in-bmcweb.md

> 
> I do have a shared library that has the PEL APIs I need (PELs themselves 
> are in files). Is it OK if I
> just link in that library as needed when a USE_PELs or whatever option 
> is set?
> Alternatively, I could also dlopen it I suppose.

There's another thread over here 
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2020-June/022082.html 
happening right now discussing types of logging. As we already have 2 
forms of logging supported, I'm a little hesitant to the idea of a third 
without at least some formal direction of what we want logging to look 
like as a project. More so as we add advanced features on top of 
logging, it makes it more difficult to support different methods.

> 
> Just trying to avoid a surprise during review.
> 
> Thanks
>