Understanding the Diagnostic Subsystem for AIX

schedule_ela

Purpose

Schedule ELA for a device.

Syntax

int schedule_ela ( device, minutes )

char *device;

int minutes;

Description

This routine is used to schedule Error Log Analysis (ELA) for a given device. Typically, this would be used by a Diagnostic Application to schedule ELA when processing indicates that an error log entry is expected and necessary for completing the diagnostic conclusion.

The scheduled time is the current time plus the number of minutes given as input. The number of minutes is limited to 24 hours. The scheduled ELA event, similar to using the diag -c -e -d device command, occurs one time only.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
device	The device name for which ELA should be run. Example: `sysplanar0`
minutes	The number of minutes that is added to the current time to schedule ELA to run. Any value over 24 hours is truncated to a value less than 24 hours. Example: `24 hours and 35 minutes (1475 minutes)` is truncated to `35 minutes`.

Return Value

There is no error return. Always returns 0.