Seek feedback: BMC console and debug info

[Richard Hanley]

I've been out of the loop on this for a while. Does anyone know if progress
has been made on the DumpService in DMTF. I remember there were some
proposals a while back, but I can't remember where they left off.

- Richard

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 12:00 PM Bills, Jason M <
jason.m.bills at linux.intel.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 8/29/2020 8:53 PM, Zhenfei Tai wrote:
> > Thanks a lot for the feedback and we're glad that it's something the
> > community is interested in!
> > We'll incorporate the advice and improve the patchset.
> >
> > Jason - If you have time, could you share the findings of the
> > "AdditionalDataURI" schema change? I've only managed to find some slides
> > <
> https://www.dmtf.org/sites/default/files/Redfish_Diagnostic_Data_Logging_Proposal_05-2020-WIP_0.pdf>
>
> > from May.
> Sorry, I don't know much about it besides that the schema change is
> coming.  I checked on the DMTF website and it doesn't look like the new
> schema has been posted, yet.
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Zhenfei
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 1:00 PM Bills, Jason M
> > <jason.m.bills at linux.intel.com <mailto:jason.m.bills at linux.intel.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On 8/25/2020 8:35 PM, Ed Tanous wrote:
> >      > Yes, this would be useful to others.  A number of commercial
> stacks
> >      > (including some I helped write) have this feature, and I had hoped
> >      > someone would tackle it at some point in the future.
> >      >
> >      > My only comment is I'd rather that we don't duplicate the
> >     endpoints in
> >      > Redfish, and have both a Console and a ConsoleDownload
> >     collection.  If
> >      > we need a mechanism to download the full log files, I'd recommend
> >     that
> >      > the Console endpoint obey an Accept header of "text/plain;
> >      > charset=utf-8" and an Accept-Encoding header of "gzip".  That way,
> >      > we're still meeting the intent of the HTTP and Redfish specs,
> even if
> >      > we're providing more data download options than they require.
> >     I still need to go dig into it, but I think the new Redfish schemas
> >     that
> >     were added to support the Dump service, added an "AdditionalDataURI"
> >     property that can provide a URI to download a larger set of
> additional
> >     dump data.  It may be what you need for the log file download.
> >
> >      >
> >      > Other than that, yeah, sounds great, lets see the patchset.
> >      >
> >      > -Ed
> >      >
> >      > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 8:24 PM Zhenfei Tai <ztai at google.com
> >     <mailto:ztai at google.com>> wrote:
> >      >>
> >      >> Hi,
> >      >>
> >      >> We have worked with our vendor on a system that provides console
> >     and debug information, which can be useful in times of debugging BMC
> >     issues.
> >      >>
> >      >> On a high level, we use obmc-console and
> >     phosphor-debug-collector to collect data.
> >      >>
> >      >> obmc-console: We collect console inputs from the host and save
> >     to local log files (max 8 files of 1 MB size with rotation.)
> >      >> phosphor-debug-collector: We run this process on the BMC with no
> >     modification.
> >      >>
> >      >> For the interface, the data is exposed via bmcweb where there
> >     are a pair of URIs for console inputs and debug collector
> respectively.
> >      >> e.g.
> >      >>
> >      >> /redfish/v1/Systems/system/LogServices/Console -- Enable/disable
> >     console inputs data collection.
> >      >> /redfish/v1/Systems/system/LogServices/ConsoleDownload --
> >     Download the log files in a zipped file.
> >      >>
> >      >> It will be great if we can get some feedback on whether the
> >     community finds such a system useful and advice to improve the
> design.
> >      >>
> >      >> Thanks,
> >      >> Zhenfei
> >
>
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