Version 5 servers now use kexec with a kdump facility mechanism that will allow for remote dumping of the core. I'm not sure if netdump is functionally supported in your version of the kernel.
Cheers,
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:23:19 -0500
From: srianirudh@gmail.com
To: crash-utility@redhat.com
Subject: [Crash-utility] netdump issue
I am implementing a netdump . I crashed one sever and got the vmcore file in /var/crash/vmcore , then i checked the kernel version through
strings vmcore | fgrep -m1 'Linux'
So now while installing the kernel-debuginfo , it should match the version above i.e something like "kernel-debuginfo.2.4.21.40.ELsmp.i368.rpm"
But i installed the closest one and that was kernel-debuginfo.2.4.21.40.EL.i386.rpm but after installing them i should have /usr/lib/debug/module/vmlinux , which i could'nt see them .
Can anyone give me the link to the rpm i am looking for , or suggest some idea. ( the server that i am dumping vmcore is version 5 )
I have bunch of server with version 2 and version 3 and version 4 in my production environment for which i have to configure netdump to collect the vmcore in version 5 server .
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Regards
Anirudh Srinivasan
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