ledmon(8)					      Intel(R) Enclosure LED Monitor Service						 ledmon(8)

NAME

       ledmon - Intel(R) LED monitor service for storage enclosures.

SYNOPSIS

       ledmon [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       The ledmon application is a daemon process used to monitor a state of software RAID devices (md only) or a state of block devices. The
       state is visualizing on LEDs associated to each slot in an enclosure or a drive bay. There are two types of system: 2-LEDs system (Activity
       LED, Status LED) and 3-LEDs system (Activity LED, Locate LED, Fail LED). This application has the highest priority when accessing the LEDs.

       The ledmon application uses SGPIO and SES-2 protocol to control LEDs. The program implements IBPI patterns of SFF-8489 specification for
       SGPIO. Please note some enclosures do not stick close to SFF-8489 specification. It might happen that enclosure processor will accept IBPI
       pattern but it will blink LEDs not according to SFF-8489 specification or it has limited number of patterns supported.

       LED management (AHCI) and SAF-TE protocols are not supported.

       There's no method provided to specify which RAID volume should be monitored and which not. The ledmon application monitors all RAID devices
       and visualizes their state.

       The ledmon application has been verified to work with Intel(R) storage controllers (i.e. Intel(R) AHCI controller). The application might
       work with storage controllers of other vendors (especially SAS/SCSI controllers). However storage controllers of other vendors have not
       been tested.

       The ledmon application is part of Intel(R) Enclosure LED Utilities. Only single instance of the application is allowed.

OPTIONS

       -c or --config=path
	       Sets a path to local configuration file. If this option is specified the global configuration file and user configuration file has
	       no effect.

       -l or --log=path
	       Sets a path to local log file. If this option is specified the global log file /var/log/ledmon.log is not used.

       -t or --interval=seconds
	       Sets time interval between scans of sysfs. The value is given in seconds.  The minimum is 5 seconds the maximum is not specified.

       --quiet or --error or --warning or --info or --debug or --all
	       Verbose level - 'quiet' means no logging at all and 'all' means to log everything. The levels are given in order. If user specifies
	       more then one verbose option the last option comes into effect.

       -h or --help
	       Prints this text out and exits.

       -v or --version
	       Displays version of ledmon and information about the license and exits.

FILES

       /var/log/ledmon.log
	       Global log file, used by ledmon application. To force logging to user defined file use -l option switch.

       ~/.ledctl
	       User configuration file, shared between ledmon and all ledctl application instances.

       /etc/ledcfg.conf
	       Global configuration file, shared between ledmon and all ledctl application instances.

LICENSE

       Copyright (c) 2009 Intel Corporation.

       This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. See the build-
       in help for details on the License and the lack of warranty.

BUGS

       The ledmon application does not recognize PFA state (Predicted Failure Analysis), hence the PFA pattern from SFF-8489 specification is not
       visualized.

SEE ALSO

       ledctl(8), ledctl.conf(5)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Artur Wojcik <artur.wojcik@intel.com>. It may be used by others.

LEDMON Version 0.32						   February 2012							 ledmon(8)