[Lustre-discuss] lustre 1.6.5.1 panic on failover

[Klaus Steden]

netdump is indeed good for this, but you may have to take two or three
cracks at it ... it doesn't always dump the complete core image, and you
can't really do a whole lot with the incomplete version.

Klaus

On 7/31/08 5:50 PM, "Kilian CAVALOTTI" <kilian at stanford.edu>did etch on
stone tablets:

> On Thursday 31 July 2008 17:22:28 Brock Palen wrote:
>> Whats a good tool to grab this? Its more than one page long, and the
>> machine does not have serial ports.
> 
> If your servers do IPMI, you probably can configure Serial-over-LAN to get
> a console and capture the logs.
> 
> But a way more convenient solution is netdump. As long as the network
> connection is working on the panicking machine, you should be able to
> transmit the kernel panic info, as well as a stack trace, to a
> netump-server, which will store it in a file.
> 
> See http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/netdump/
> 
> 
> Cheers,