ovs-bugtool8

Usage

Overview

Generates a debug bundle with useful information about Open vSwitch on this system and places it in /var/log/ovs-bugtool.

Options

These options influence what categories of data ovs-bugtool collects.

--entries=list

Collect the capabilities specified in the comma-separated list.

--all

Collect all available capabilities.

--ovs

In addition to Open vSwitch configuration and status, ovs-bugtool can collect a variety of relevant system information. This option limits collection to Open vSwitch-specific categories.

--log-days=days

Include the logs with last modification time in the previous days days in the debug bundle. The number of log files included has a big impact on the eventual bundle size. The default value is 20 days.

-y

--yestoall

Answer yes to all prompts.

--capabilities

Writes the categories that ovs-bugtool can collect on stdout in XML, then exits.

Options

These options influence the format and destination of ovs-bugtool output.

--output=filetype

Generates a debug bundle with the specified file type. Options include tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, and zip.

--outfile=file

Write output to file. Mutually exclusive with --outfd.

--outfd=fd

Write output to file descriptor fd. This option must be used with --output=tar.

--unlimited

Do not exclude files which are too large. Also skip checking free disk space. By default up to 90 percent of the free disk space can be used.

--debug

Print verbose debugging output.

Options

-s

--silent

Suppress most output to stdout.

--help

Print a summary of ovs-bugtool usage to stdout, then exit.

Examples

Here's a collection of some commonly useful options:

ovs-bugtool -y -s --output=tar.gz --outfile=/var/log/bugtool-report.tgz