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SBDavid
Oct 28th, 2009

sysreport and sosreport in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

sysreport and sosreport in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Before Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5, we had “sysreport”. The “sosreport” command is a tool that collects information about a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system, such as what kernel is running, what drivers are loaded, and various configuration files for common services. It also does some simple diagnostics against known problematic patterns.

To run “sosreport”, the “sos” package must be installed. The package should be installed by default, bu if the package is not installed, follow the steps below:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

If the system is registered with Red Hat Network (RHN), “sos” can be installed using the up2date command:

# up2date sos

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and later

If the system is registered with RHN, use the yum command:

# yum install sos

“sosreport” will generate a compressed a bz2 file under /tmp.