[Freeipmi-devel] Large number of hosts in ipmiseld

[Kilian Cavalotti]

Hi there,

I would like to use ipmiseld to gather SEL logs from a large number of
nodes (700+). Turns out that at some point, ipmiseld chokes if the
hostname argument is too long in ipmiseld.conf:
"""
Starting ipmiseld: Config File Error: overflow arg length on line 5
"""
The hostname argument is 569 characters long.

There is apparently no way to split the hostname argument on multiple lines:
"""
Starting ipmiseld: Config File Error: configuration option "hostname"
listed too many times
"""
although this is possible with ipmidetectd in ipmidetectd.conf

So I'm wondering what is the recommended way to aggregate SEL logs
from a large number of machines.

Thanks,
-- 
Kilian