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FM: design for collecting ereports from the host through sled-agent
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Sled Agent
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- Rust
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Description
We'll have to figure this out eventually.
Some questions on my mind:
- Do we do this by just having
sled-agentshell out tofmdump -ejor whatever makes it list ereports and format the NVLists as JSON? Or do we want to have proper Rust bindings for the FMA C libraries? - I suspect that the host is a lot better at spewing out a giant pile of identical ereports than Hubris, so we may actually want to worry about deduplication/debouncing a bit more here...
- Can we reuse the sled UUID as the restart ID? That would make stuff easier. Figure out whether this is practical.
- Note that unlike in Hubris, all this stuff is getting written to disk, so we don't inherently lose data on a sled-agent restart; the restart ID may not need to be tied to the lifetime of a single sled-agent process. Figure out where the restart boundary actually is and where data loss occurs on the host side.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files or tests are named. Start at the sled-agent entry point and trace host-side ereport collection and persistence, then resolve the fmdump versus Rust-bindings, deduplication, and restart-boundary questions; done means a chosen design covering collection, deduplication, restart IDs, and data-loss behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100