Purpose
Collect
a standard set of problem diagnosis
data into a single file. This file can be transferred off the appliance
for viewing or for sending to IBM support. The resulting output file
is the output of a predefined list of command line interface (CLI)
commands. The intention of this command is to "script" a number of
command line interface (CLI) commands a support person might ask the
customer to run as part of problem diagnosis.
Syntax
platform
collect-pd [ PDfilename ]
Parameters
- PDfilename
- Specifies the name of the text file
to which the output of the
problem diagnostic commands is written. If not specified, the default
value is collect-pd.txt. If the output file exists,
it is overwritten.
Usage
Notes
- The output might include both clear text that
customers can read,
and obscured textual data intended only for IBM support.
- The
output of this command is also included automatically in the
data collected by the platform must-gather command.
So if users run platform must-gather, they do not
need to separately run platform collect-pd.
- Because
the output is all printable text, the contents of the
output file might be printed inside the command line interface (CLI)
session by using the show log command. This is
helpful if the appliance loses all network connectivity.
Example
Collects
diagnostic command data, sending
the output to the default output file.
Console> platform collect-pd
Console> file list
collect-pd.txt 79336 bytes created Feb 6, 2012 9:32:17 PM
Console>