Writer instructions

Page title

For most spaces, this page must be titled Space announcements.

For spaces with localized content, this page must be titled Space announcements l10n.

Purpose

Provide an announcement banner on every page of your space.

Location

Move this page outside of your home branch.

Guidelines

Announcement Support for this product will end on November 3, 2025. We recommend that you use PATROL for Linux, PATROL for AIX, or PATROL for Solaris to monitor operating systems.

Capturing DUMP Information for Selected Components


This task describes how to gather basic system information. With it, you can gather system information as well as to review the current state of various aspects of BMC PATROL such as which KMs are loaded, how many PSL errors have occurred since the agent started, and which tasks are currently being performed.

To Capture UNIX Diagnostic Information

  1. Access the UNIX OS application menu as described in Accessing KM Commands and InfoBoxes.
  2. Select Debug and Diagnostics > Capture UNIX Diagnostics.
     BMC PATROL displays the Select Categories of Diagnostics dialog box.

    Select Categories of Diagnostics Dialog Box
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  3. Select the %DUMP Options check box.
  4. Place the cursor in the Output File for Diagnostics field and type the path and file name to which you want the diagnostic information written.
  5. Click Accept.
     BMC PATROL displays the DUMP Options dialog box.

    %DUMP Options Dialog Box
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  6. Select the check boxes of the components for which you want BMC PATROL to provide information. Following table lists the options in alphabetic order.

     Capture UNIX Diagnostics %DUMP Options

  7. Click Accept.
     BMC PATROL writes the information to the file that you specified in step 4 and to a task object (Capture UNIX Diagnostics) in the UNIX OS container.

 

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