[CentOS] CentOS on IBM Bladecenter HS21

Thu Jul 16 23:57:50 UTC 2009
Andrei F <frunzales at gmail.com>

Hello,

Thank you Matty, I will follow that tutorial and configure my servers
accordingly.

Regards,

-Andrei

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Matty <matty91 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Andrei F<frunzales at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have CentOS 5.2 installed on two of the afore-mentioned blades.
> > I've noticed that the OS started to crash lately (kernel panic) and I've
> > been assigned the task to troubleshoot this issue.
> >
> > I would like to know what is the best way of recovering the kernel
> > dump after the OS crashes.
> >
> > I know there are two software implementations that would enable me
> > to do this, kexec and 'crash' , redhat's own implementation that allows
> > you to pust the dump via network to a remote machine.
>
> I've used kdump to troubleshoot these types of issues in the past:
>
>
> http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2009/07/06/using-kdump-to-get-core-files-on-fedora-and-centos-hosts/
>
> Once you have a core file, you can use crash and company to figure out
> what caused the kernel to panic.
>
> - Ryan
> --
> http://prefetch.net
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