Cloud DevOps Admin Guide

 For basic dump analysis, this article is mostly interested in a dump image. Here, we cover how to extract the appropriate files from the snap package and then explain a methodical approach to examine the dump, and find the fundamental reason for a system crash. The dump file and the UNIX® file are in the dump subdirectory of the snap package.

Though we are primarily focused on the dump image, it is important to note that snap can provide you with useful information when used with appropriate options. Additional information is found in the General and Kernel subsections of the article.

General

This general directory includes information about the system runtime environment, for example:

•     Copy of ODM data.
•     All environment variables (e.g., PATH and TZ).
•     Date and time the data was collected.
•     Amount of real memory on the system (bootinfo -r).
•     Listing of all defined paging spaces.
•     Listing of all installed filesets and their levels.
•     Listing of all installed APARs.
•     Device attributes (lsattr -El).
•     System VPD information (lscfg -pv).
•     Status of last dump (sysdumpdev -L).

•     Date and time the data was collected
•     Vmstat output
•     VMM tunable information (vmo -L).
•     Scheduling tunable information (schedo -L).
•     I/O related tunable iformation (ioo -L).
•     Environment variables.
•     SRC information (lssrc -a).
•     Process information (ps -ef and ps -leaf).
•     Checksum of device drivers and methods.