platform must-gather

Purpose

Collect the must-gather diagnostic data required for reporting a problem to IBM support.

Syntax

platform must-gather filename [ PDfilename ]

Parameters

filename
Output file containing all diagnostic data, in a compressed (.tgz) format
pdfilename
Name of the text file to which the output of the problem diagnostic commands will be written. This file contains the same output collected by the platform collect-pd command. If not specified, the default value is collect-pd.txt. If the output file exists, the file is overwritten.

Usage Notes

Related Commands

See platform collect-pd.

Example

Collect diagnostic data to a file called problem-data.tgz.
Console> platform must-gather problem-data.tgz
Console> file list
problem-data.tgz 3449276 bytes created Mar 27, 2012 11:15:48 AM
collect-pd.txt 572878 bytes created Mar 27, 2012 11:15:48 AM
Console>