On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Andrei F<frunzales at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > What would be the best thing to do at this point? > I don't have any experience for how to debug this. But I have CentOS 5 running fine on the same kind of Blades. I have about 25 of them and have seen no crashes. What kernel are you running ? Did you upgrade the firmware on the Blades to the latest version ? Regards, Tim -- Tim Verhoeven - tim.verhoeven.be at gmail.com - 0479 / 88 11 83 Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is the "microsoft approach to programming" and should never be allowed. (Linus Torvalds)