AppSuite:Oxsysreport

Creating an OX Support Tarball

The 'oxsysreport' tool is able to collect in a incident scenario a lot of useful log and system information into a tar archive. This so called OX Support Tarball contains Apache and OX configurations, OX logs and system information. This and a qualified Error Report makes sure that our support department get all needed details for a fast qualified help. We always recommend to encrypt your E-Mail with our Support Key when attaching this tarball.

Parameter Overview

Option Default Values Possible Values Required Tools
--tempdir /tmp <directory>
--logdir ox_support_infos-<timestamp> <folder name>
--log-archive /tmp/ox_support_infos-<timestamp>.tar <path to tarball>
--keep-tmp-files false true false
--thread-dump false true false
--heap-dump false true false jmap, sudo (Only if not IBM Java)
--skip-compression false true false
--exclude-old-logs disabled 0 ... n Days
--exclude-ox-secrets false true false
-h,--help disabled

Required Tools

We recommend to check if all required tools are installed before a incident happens. In case your are running IBM Java on e.g. SUSE Linux Enterprise, heap dumps will be created differently. Please note, we do not list package names which are usually get installed in a default installation.

Tool Debian SUSE Redhead CentOS Univention
bzip2 bzip2
jmap sun-java<version>-jdk openjdk-<version>-jdk N/A java-<version>-openjdk-devel java-<version>-openjdk-devel openjdk-<version>-jdk
sudo sudo

Features

Directory for Temporary Process Data --tempdir

Root Folder Name of the Support Tarbal --logdir

OX Support Tarball Name and Storage Location --log-archive

Keep Temporary Process Data --keep-tmp-files

This information is valid from 7.6.0 on.

New Features

By this new feautures it is possible to generate additional information which are potentially required to deal with high load, cpu or memory usage incidents.

Create Thread Dumps --thread-dump

Create Heap Dumps --heap-dump

Skip Support Tarball Compression --skip-compression

Drop Older OX Logfiles from Support Tarball --exclude-old-logs

Removes Confidential Details from OX Config Files --exclude-ox-secrets

Examples