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
- The output might include both clear text
and obscured data intended
to be read only by IBM support.
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>