Hello,

I am watching for burst of ecc errors occurring in different models of Dell power-edge servers with vmware in data center.

I am using Dell racadm tool on the esx hosts.

Sometimes there could be a burst of errors in the range thousands or even millions sometimes right? So I have heard.

I came across this post

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000052877/vxrack-node-experiencing-correctable-ecc-errors

which says 

   " The thresholds set in the BIOS are easily exceeded by these bursts of ECC errors.

1. With the current BIOS setting, an ECC error is reported in the SEL logs, once for every 10 occurrences of the  correctable ECC error on a DIMM.
2. The reporting to the SEL logs gets turned off after 10 such occurrences. So after a total of 100 such errors reported on a DIMM the reporting is turned off.   "

So my question is if reporting stops after just 10(which is 100 internally) how will I get the correct ecc correctable error count.

Also I don't want to loose any ecc error events. 

The buffer size for the idrac SEL reporting is limited right? So if it gets full, how do I clear them immediately so I can  watch for future events without loosing any event. The errors come and go. I would like to keep a tab on them to understand the behavior and possible failure.

The threshold mentioned in the post is 500 per day or something. If reporting stops at 100 events how will I know the exact count?

Thank you