NAME

       ipmctl-inject-error - Injects an error or clears a previously injected error

SYNOPSIS

       ipmctl set [OPTIONS] -dimm [TARGETS] [PROPERTIES]

DESCRIPTION

       Injects an error or clears a previously injected error on one or more DCPMM for testing purposes.

OPTIONS

       -h, -help
           Displays help for the command.

       -ddrt
           Used to specify DDRT as the desired transport protocol for the current invocation of ipmctl.

       -smbus
           Used to specify SMBUS as the desired transport protocol for the current invocation of ipmctl.

           Note

           The -ddrt and -smbus options are mutually exclusive and may not be used together.

       -o (text|nvmxml), -output (text|nvmxml)
           Changes the output format. One of: "text" (default) or "nvmxml".

TARGETS

       -dimm [DimmIDs]
           Injects or clears an error on specific DCPMMs by supplying one or more comma separated DCPMM
           identifiers. The default is to inject the error on all manageable DCPMMs.

PROPERTIES

       This command only supports setting or clearing one type of error at a time.

       Clear

           •   "1": Clears a previously injected error. This property must be combined with one of the other
               properties indicating the previously injected error to clear.

       Temperature
           Injects an artificial media temperature in degrees Celsius into the DCPMM. The firmware that is
           monitoring the temperature of the DCPMM will then be alerted and take necessary precautions to
           preserve the DCPMM. The value is injected immediately and will override the firmware from reading the
           actual media temperature of the device and use this value instead which may cause adverse reactions
           by the firmware and result in an alert or log.

           Note

           The injected temperature value will remain until the next reboot or until it is cleared. The media
           temperature is an artificial temperature and will not cause harm to the part. Although firmware
           actions due to improper temperature injections may cause adverse effects on the DCPMM.
           If the Critical Shutdown Temperature, or higher, is passed in, this may cause the DCPMM firmware to
           perform a shutdown in order to preserve the part and data.
           The temperature value will be ignored on clear.

       Poison
           The physical address to poison.
           Poison is not possible for any address in the PM region if the PM region is locked. Injected poison
           errors are only triggered on a subsequent read of the poisoned address in which case an error log
           will be generated by the firmware, but no alerts will be sent.
           This command can be used to clear non-injected poison errors. The data will be zero’d after clearing.
           There is no requirement to enable error injection prior to request to clear poison errors.
           The caller is responsible for keeping a list of injected poison errors, in order to properly clear
           the injected errors afterwards. Simply disabling injection does not clear injected poison errors.
           Injected poison errors are persistent across power cycles and system resets.

           Note

           The address must be 256 byte aligned (e.g., 0x10000000, 0x10000100, 0x10000200...).

       PoisonType
           The type of memory to poison. One of:

           •   "PatrolScrub": Injects a poison error at the specified address simulating an error found during a
               patrol scrub operation indifferent to how the memory is currently allocated, This is the default.

           •   "MemoryMode": Injects a poison error at the specified address currently allocated in Memory Mode.

           •   "AppDirect": Injects a poison error at the specified address currently allocated as App Direct.

           Note

           If the address to poison is not currently allocated as the specified memory type, an error is
           returned.

       PackageSparing

           •   "1": Triggers an artificial package sparing. If package sparing is enabled and the DCPMM still
               has spares remaining, this will cause the firmware to report that there are no spares remaining.

       PercentageRemaining
           Injects an artificial percentage remaining value into the DCPMM. This will cause the firmware to take
           appropriate action based on the value and if necessary generate an error log, an alert, and update
           the health status.

       FatalMediaError

           •   "1": Injects a fake media fatal error which will cause the firmware to generate an error log and
               an alert.

           Note

           When media fatal error is injected, BSR Media Disabled status bit will be set indicating media error,
           until the fatal error is cleared using disable trigger input parameter to clear this injected fatal
           error.

           Note

           Injecting a Fatal Media error is unsupported on Windows. Please contact Microsoft for assistance in
           performing this action.

       DirtyShutdown

           •   "1": Injects an ADR failure resulting in dirty shutdown upon reboot.

EXAMPLES

       Sets the media temperature on all manageable DCPMMs to 50 degrees Celsius.

       ipmctl set -dimm Temperature=50

       Clears the injected media temperature on all manageable DCPMMs.

       ipmctl set -dimm Clear=1 Temperature=1

       Poison address 0x10000200 on DCPMM 1234.

       ipmctl set -dimm 1234 Poison=0x10000200

       Clears the injected poison of address 0x10000200 on DCPMM 1234.

       ipmctl set -dimm 1234 Poison=0x10000200 Clear=1

       Triggers an artificial package sparing on all manageable DCPMMs.

       ipmctl set -dimm PackageSparing=1

       Sets the life remaining percentage on all manageable DCPMMs to 10%.

       ipmctl set -dimm PercentageRemaining=10

       Clears the injected remaining life percentage on all manageable DCPMMs. The value of PercentageRemaining
       is irrelevant.

       ipmctl set -dimm PercentageRemaining=10 Clear=1

       Triggers an artificial ADR failure on all manageable DCPMM s resulting in a dirty shutdown on each DCPMM
       on the next reboot.

       ipmctl set -dimm DirtyShutdown=1

LIMITATIONS

       This command is available only when error injection is enabled on the DCPMM(s) in the BIOS. To
       successfully execute this command, the specified DCPMM(s) must be manageable by the host software.

RETURN DATA

       For each DCPMM, the CLI will indicate the status of the operation. If a failure occurs when injecting an
       error on multiple DCPMMs, the process will continue with the remaining DCPMMs.

SAMPLE OUTPUT

       Set temperature on DCPMM (DimmID): Success|Error (Code) -
       (Description)
       Clear injected temperature on DCPMM (DimmID): Success|Error
       (Code) - (Description)

       Poison address (Address) on DCPMM (DimmID): Success|Error
       (Code) - (Description)
       Clear injected poison of address (Address) on DCPMM
       (DimmID): Success|Error (Code) - (Description)

       Trigger package sparing on DCPMM (DimmID): Success|Error
       (Code) - (Description)
       Clear injected package sparing on DCPMM (DimmID):
       Success|Error (Code) - (Description)

       Trigger a spare capacity alarm on DCPMM (DimmID):
       Success|Error (Code) - (Description)
       Clear injected spare capacity alarm on DCPMM (DimmID):
       Success|Error (Code) - (Description)

       Create a media fatal error on DCPMM (DimmID): Success|Error
       (Code) - (Description)
       Clear injected media fatal error on DCPMM (DimmID):
       Success|Error (Code) - (Description)

ipmctl                                             2020-02-10                             IPMCTL-INJECT-ERROR(1)