SOSREPORT
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Mon Mar 25 2013
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NAME
sosreport - Collect and package diagnostic and support data
SYNOPSIS
sosreport
[-l|--list-plugins]
[-n|--skip-plugins plugin-names]
[-e|--enable-plugins plugin-names]
[-o|--only-plugins plugin-names]
[-a|--alloptions] [-v|--verbose]
[-k plug.opt|--plugin-option plug.opt]
[--no-report] [--config-file conf]
[--no-postproc]
[--preset preset] [--add-preset add_preset]
[--del-preset del_preset] [--desc description]
[--batch] [--build] [--debug] [--dry-run]
[--label label] [--case-id id]
[--threads threads]
[--plugin-timeout TIMEOUT]
[-s|--sysroot SYSROOT]
[-c|--chroot {auto|always|never}
[--tmp-dir directory]
[-p|--profile profile-name]
[--list-profiles]
[--verify]
[--log-size]
[--all-logs]
[--since YYYYMMDD[HHMMSS]]
[--skip-commands commands]
[--skip-files files]
[--allow-system-changes]
[-z|--compression-type method]
[--encrypt-key KEY]
[--encrypt-pass PASS]
[--upload] [--upload-url url] [--upload-user user]
[--upload-directory dir] [--upload-pass pass]
[--experimental]
[-h|--help]
DESCRIPTION
sosreport generates an archive of configuration and diagnostic
information from the running system. The archive may be stored locally
or centrally for recording or tracking purposes or may be sent to
technical support representatives, developers or system administrators
to assist with technical fault-finding and debugging.
Sos is modular in design and is able to collect data from a wide
range of subsystems and packages that may be installed. An
HTML report summarizing the collected information is optionally
generated and stored within the archive.
OPTIONS
- -l, --list-plugins
-
List all available plugins and their options. Plug-ins that would
not be enabled by the current configuration are listed separately.
- -n, --skip-plugins PLUGNAME[,PLUGNAME]
-
Disable the specified plugin(s). Multiple plug-ins may be specified
by repeating the option or as a comma-separated list.
- -e, --enable-plugins PLUGNAME[,PLUGNAME]
-
Enable the specified plugin(s). Multiple plug-ins may be specified
by repeating the option or as a comma-separated list.
- -o, --only-plugins PLUGNAME[,PLUGNAME]
-
Enable the specified plugin(s) only (all other plugins should be
disabled). Multiple plugins may be specified by repeating the option
or as a comma-separated list.
- -k PLUGNAME.PLUGOPT[=VALUE], --plugin-option=PLUGNAME.PLUGOPT[=VALUE]
-
Specify plug-in options. The option PLUGOPT is enabled, or set to the
specified value in the plug-in PLUGNAME.
- -a, --alloptions
-
Set all boolean options to True for all enabled plug-ins.
- -v, --verbose
-
Increase logging verbosity. May be specified multiple times to enable
additional debugging messages.
- -q, --quiet
-
Only log fatal errors to stderr.
- --no-report
-
Disable HTML report writing.
- --config-file CONFIG
-
Specify alternate configuration file.
- --no-postproc
-
Disable postprocessing globally for all plugins. This will mean data is not
obfuscated/sanitized from the archive during collection.
Note that this means data such as password, SSH keys, certificates, etc...
will be collected in plain text.
To selectively disable postprocessing on a per-plugin basis, use the 'postproc'
plugin option available to all plugins, e.g. '-k podman.postproc=off'.
- --preset PRESET
-
Specify an existing preset to use for sos options.
Presets are pre-configured sets of options for both sos and sos plugins. For
example a preset may enable a certain set of plugins, disable others, or enable
specific plugin options. They may also specify sos options such as log-size or
package verification.
User defined presets are saved under /var/lib/sos/presets as JSON-formatted files.
- --add-preset ADD_PRESET [options]
-
Add a preset with name ADD_PRESET that enables [options] when called.
For example, 'sosreport --add-preset mypreset --log-size=50 -n logs' will enable
a user to run 'sosreport --preset mypreset' that sets the maximum log size to
50 and disables the logs plugin.
Note: to set a description for the preset that is displayed with --list-presets,
use the --desc option.
Note: to set a behaviour note of the preset, use --note option.
Note: The root filesystem, as seen by sos if running within a container, must be
writable to save presets using this option.
- --del-preset DEL_PRESET
-
Deletes the preset with name DEL_PRESET from the filesystem so that it can no
longer be used.
- --list-presets
-
Display a list of available presets and what options they carry.
- --desc DESCRIPTION
-
When using --add-preset use this option to add a description of the preset
that will be displayed when using --list-presets.
- -s, --sysroot SYSROOT
-
Specify an alternate root file system path. Useful for collecting
reports from containers and images.
- -c, --chroot {auto|always|never}
-
Set the chroot mode. When --sysroot is used commands default to
executing with SYSROOT as the root directory (unless disabled by
a specific plugin). This can be overridden by setting --chroot to
"always" (always chroot) or "never" (always run in the host
namespace).
- --tmp-dir DIRECTORY
-
Specify alternate temporary directory to copy data as well as the
compressed report.
- --list-profiles
-
Display a list of available profiles and the plugins that they enable.
- -p, --profile, --profiles NAME
-
Only run plugins that correspond to the given profile. Multiple profiles
may be specified as a comma-separated list; the set of plugins executed
is the union of each of the profile's plugin sets. Currently defined
profiles include: boot, cluster, desktop, debug, hardware, identity,
network, openstack, packagemanager, security, services, storage,
sysmgmt, system, performance, virt, and webserver.
- --verify
-
Instructs plugins to perform plugin-specific verification during data
collection. This may include package manager verification, log integrity
testing or other plugin defined behaviour. Use of --verify may cause
the time taken to generate a report to be considerably longer.
- --log-size
-
Places a global limit on the size (in MiB) of any collected set of logs. The
limit is applied separately for each set of logs collected by any
plugin.
- --all-logs
-
Tell plugins to collect all possible log data ignoring any size limits
and including logs in non-default locations. This option may significantly
increase the size of reports.
- --since YYYYMMDD[HHMMSS]
-
Limits the collection of log archives to those newer than this date. A log
archive is any file not found in /etc, that has either a numeric or a
compression-type file extension for example ".zip". ".1", ".gz" etc.).
This also affects --all-logs. The date string will be padded with zeros
if HHMMSS is not specified.
- --skip-commands COMMANDS
-
A comma delimited list of commands to skip execution of, but still allowing the
rest of the plugin that calls the command to run. This will generally need to
be some form of UNIX shell-style wildcard matching. For example, using a value
of hostname will skip only that single command, while using hostname*
will skip all commands with names that begin with the string "hostname".
- --skip-files FILES
-
A comma delimited list of files or filepath wildcard matches to skip collection
of. Values may either be exact filepaths or paths using UNIX shell-style wildcards,
for example /etc/sos/*.
- --allow-system-changes
-
Run commands even if they can change the system (e.g. load kernel modules).
- -z, --compression-type METHOD
-
Override the default compression type specified by the active policy.
- --encrypt-key KEY
-
Encrypts the resulting archive that sosreport produces using GPG. KEY must be
an existing key in the user's keyring as GPG does not allow for keyfiles.
KEY can be any value accepted by gpg's 'recipient' option.
Note that the user running sosreport must match the user owning the keyring
from which keys will be obtained. In particular this means that if sudo is
used to run sosreport, the keyring must also be set up using sudo
(or direct shell access to the account).
Users should be aware that encrypting the final archive will result in sos
using double the amount of temporary disk space - the encrypted archive must be
written as a separate, rather than replacement, file within the temp directory
that sos writes the archive to. However, since the encrypted archive will be
the same size as the original archive, there is no additional space consumption
once the temporary directory is removed at the end of execution.
This means that only the encrypted archive is present on disk after sos
finishes running.
If encryption fails for any reason, the original unencrypted archive is
preserved instead.
- --encrypt-pass PASS
-
The same as --encrypt-key, but use the provided PASS for symmetric encryption
rather than key-pair encryption.
- --batch
-
Generate archive without prompting for interactive input.
- --name NAME
-
Deprecated. See --label
- --label LABEL
-
Specify an arbitrary identifier to associate with the archive.
Labels will be appended after the system's short hostname and may contain
alphanumeric characters.
- --threads THREADS
-
Specify the number of threads sosreport will use for concurrency. Defaults to 4.
- --plugin-timeout TIMEOUT
-
Specify a timeout in seconds to allow each plugin to run for. A value of 0
means no timeout will be set. A value of -1 is used to indicate the default
timeout of 300 seconds.
Note that this options sets the timeout for all plugins. If you want to set
a timeout for a specific plugin, use the 'timeout' plugin option available to
all plugins - e.g. '-k logs.timeout=600'.
The plugin-specific timeout option will override this option. For example, using
'--plugin-timeout=60 -k logs.timeout=600' will set a timeout of 600 seconds for
the logs plugin and 60 seconds for all other enabled plugins.
- --case-id NUMBER
-
Specify a case identifier to associate with the archive.
Identifiers may include alphanumeric characters, commas and periods ('.').
- --build
-
Do not archive copied data. Causes sosreport to leave an uncompressed
archive as a temporary file or directory tree.
- --debug
-
Enable interactive debugging using the python debugger. Exceptions in
sos or plug-in code will cause a trap to the pdb shell.
- --dry-run
-
Execute plugins as normal, but do not collect any file content, command
output, or string data from the system. The resulting logs may be used
to understand the actions that sos would have taken without the dry run
option.
- --upload
-
If specified, attempt to upload the resulting archive to a vendor defined location.
This option is implied if --upload-url is used.
You may be prompted for a username and password if these are not defined by the vendor
as well. If these credentials are not provided, sos will still run and create an archive
but will not attempt an automatic upload, instead relying on the end user to upload it
as needed.
The sosreport archive will still remain on the local filesystem even after a successful
upload.
Note that depending on the distribution sos is being run on, or the vendor policy detected during
execution, there may be dependencies that are not strictly required by the package
at installation time.
For example, for HTTPS uploads the python-requests library must be available. If this
library is not available, HTTPS uploads will not be attempted.
- --upload-url URL
-
If a vendor does not provide a default upload location, or if you would like to upload
the archive to a different location, specify the address here.
A support protocol MUST be specified in this URL. Currently uploading is supported
for HTTPS, SFTP, and FTP protocols.
If your destination server listens on a non-standard port, specify the listening
port in the URL.
- --upload-user USER
-
If a vendor does not provide a default user for uploading, specify the username here.
If this option is unused and upload is request, and a vendor default is not set, you
will be prompted for one. If --batch is used and this option is omitted, no username will
be collected and thus uploads will fail if no vendor default is set.
You also have the option of providing this value via the SOSUPLOADUSER environment
variable. If this variable is set, then no username prompt will occur and --batch
may be used provided all other required values (case number, upload password)
are provided.
- --upload-pass PASS
-
Specify the password to use for authentication with the destination server.
If this option is omitted and upload is requested, you will be prompted for one.
If --batch is used, this prompt will not occur, so any uploads are likely to fail unless
this option is used.
Note that this will result in the plaintext string appearing in `ps` output that may
be collected by sos and be in the archive. If a password must be provided by you
for uploading, it is strongly recommended to not use --batch and enter the password
when prompted rather than using this option.
You also have the option of providing this value via the SOSUPLOADPASSWORD environment
variable. If this variable is set, then no password prompt will occur and --batch may
be used provided all other required values (case number, upload user) are provided.
- --upload-directory DIR
-
Specify a directory to upload to, if one is not specified by a vendor default location
or if your destination server does not allow writes to '/'.
- --experimental
-
Enable plugins marked as experimental. Experimental plugins may not have
been tested for this port or may still be under active development.
- --help
-
Display usage message.
MAINTAINER
Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@redhat.com>
AUTHORS & CONTRIBUTORS
See
AUTHORS file in the package documentation.
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