On 4/27/06, Tom Shilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks to me that taking a dump of a LIN-z system is a manual process. > You either manually IPL a disk, a tape, or you do the VMDUMP command. The > automatic dumping after an oops or kernel panic that is available on LINTEL > is not available on LIN-z. True?
You're right that one dump disk per server does not scale, and picking one from a pool is not trivial (well, a pool of 1 could do). But you would be better off with VMDUMP instead. If the kernel crashes the CP READ wil make evidence disappear before you're there to take the dump. My understanding is that the kernel does a halt in case of bad damage, in that case vmhalt="VMDUMP 0:ALL" would do the trick. Have a look at the "Using the dump tools" book which describes the process to read in the dump in Linux (in the Linux that caused the dump, or at least one with exactly the same level of kernel). -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
