elad(1M) controls access to the SMS event log (eventlog), which records fault and error events identified by the automatic diagnosis (AD) engine on a Sun Fire high-end system. This daemon also performs the following archive tasks:

• Starts a new event log file whenever the current event log reaches its size limit.

  The current log file is archived as eventlog.0. Whenever a new event log is created, the file names of existing archive logs are incremented by 1. A maximum of ten archive files (eventlog.0 through eventlog.9) is maintained.

• Deletes the oldest archive file, eventlog.9, whenever a new event log file is created.
• Passes error and list events to elad(1M) for recording.

This daemon is started automatically by the ssd(1M) daemon. Do not start it manually from the command line.

The following files are supported:

/etc/opt/SUNWSMS/SMS/config/elad_tuning.txt

Sets the size, number of archive files to be maintained, and number of days that the archive files are to be retained.

/etc/opt/SUNWSMS/startup/ssd_start

Default startup file for ssd.

/var/opt/SUNWSMS/adm/domain_id/

Stores message files and hpost dump files.

/var/opt/SUNWSMS/SMS/adm/events/eventlog

Stores all the hardware-related error and fault events

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes.

efhd(1m), elad(1m), erd(1m), mld(1m), ssd(1m)