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Monitoring AIX errpt output

VibhashMishra — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:04:11 GMT

Hi ,

Is there a solution to monitor output of errpt in AIX servers for hardware failure? Checked the logs in the following paths, but I couldn't find anything:

/etc/objrepos/SWservAt/*.log
/var/adm/ras/errlog/*.log
/var/adm/ras/errpt/*.log
/var/adm/ras/errtmplt/*.log
/var/log/errpt/*.log

If anyone has already configured this, please let me know.

Re: Monitoring AIX errpt output

yanezza — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:43:05 GMT

Hi,
is the error daemon enabled?
run this command

errdemon -l

The log paths you have indicated are correct to the best of my knowledge.

If the information is only displayed when executing the errpt -d H command, it might be possible to create a Python Extension to run this command and extract the information periodically.