.TH SOSREPORT 1 "Mon Mar 25 2013"
.SH NAME
sosreport \- Collect and package diagnostic and support data
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B sosreport
[-l|--list-plugins]\fR
[-n|--skip-plugins plugin-names]\fR
[-e|--enable-plugins plugin-names]\fR
[-o|--only-plugins plugin-names]\fR
[-a|--alloptions] [-v|--verbose]\fR
[-k plug.opt|--plugin-option plug.opt]\fR
[--no-report] [--config-file conf]\fR
[--preset preset] [--add-preset add_preset]\fR
[--del-preset del_preset] [--desc description]\fR
[--batch] [--build] [--debug] [--dry-run]\fR
[--label label] [--case-id id] [--ticket-number nr]\fR
[--threads threads]\fR
[--plugin-timeout TIMEOUT]\fR
[-s|--sysroot SYSROOT]\fR
[-c|--chroot {auto|always|never}\fR
[--tmp-dir directory]\fR
[-p|--profile profile-name]\fR
[--list-profiles]\fR
[--verify]\fR
[--log-size]\fR
[--all-logs]\fR
[--since YYYYMMDD[HHMMSS]]\fR
[-z|--compression-type method]\fR
[--encrypt-key KEY]\fR
[--encrypt-pass PASS]\fR
[--experimental]\fR
[-h|--help]\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBsosreport\fR generates an archive of configuration and diagnostic
information from the running system. The archive may be stored locally
or centrally for recording or tracking purposes or may be sent to
technical support representatives, developers or system administrators
to assist with technical fault-finding and debugging.
.LP
Sos is modular in design and is able to collect data from a wide
range of subsystems and packages that may be installed. An
HTML report summarizing the collected information is optionally
generated and stored within the archive.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-l, \--list-plugins
List all available plugins and their options. Plug-ins that would
not be enabled by the current configuration are listed separately.
.TP
.B \-n, --skip-plugins PLUGNAME[,PLUGNAME]
Disable the specified plugin(s). Multiple plug-ins may be specified
by repeating the option or as a comma-separated list.
.TP
.B \-e, --enable-plugins PLUGNAME[,PLUGNAME]
Enable the specified plugin(s). Multiple plug-ins may be specified
by repeating the option or as a comma-separated list.
.TP
.B \-o, --only-plugins PLUGNAME[,PLUGNAME]
Enable the specified plugin(s) only (all other plugins should be
disabled). Multiple plugins may be specified by repeating the option
or as a comma-separated list.
.TP
.B \-k PLUGNAME.PLUGOPT[=VALUE], \--plugin-option=PLUGNAME.PLUGOPT[=VALUE]
Specify plug-in options. The option PLUGOPT is enabled, or set to the
specified value in the plug-in PLUGNAME.
.TP
.B \-a, \--alloptions
Set all boolean options to True for all enabled plug-ins.
.TP
.B \-v, \--verbose
Increase logging verbosity. May be specified multiple times to enable
additional debugging messages.
.TP
.B \-q, \--quiet
Only log fatal errors to stderr.
.TP
.B \--no-report
Disable HTML report writing.
.TP
.B \--config-file CONFIG
Specify alternate configuration file.
.TP
.B \--preset PRESET
Specify an existing preset to use for sos options.
Presets are pre-configured sets of options for both sos and sos plugins. For
example a preset may enable a certain set of plugins, disable others, or enable
specific plugin options. They may also specify sos options such as log-size or
package verification.
User defined presets are saved under /var/lib/sos/presets as JSON-formatted files.
.TP
.B \--add-preset ADD_PRESET [options]
Add a preset with name ADD_PRESET that enables [options] when called.
For example, 'sosreport --add-preset mypreset --log-size=50 -n logs' will enable
a user to run 'sosreport --preset mypreset' that sets the maximum log size to
50 and disables the logs plugin.
Note: to set a description for the preset that is displayed with \fB--list-presets\fR,
use the \fB--desc\fR option.
Note: to set a behaviour note of the preset, use --note option.
.TP
.B \--del-preset DEL_PRESET
Deletes the preset with name DEL_PRESET from the filesystem so that it can no
longer be used.
.TP
.B \--list-presets
Display a list of available presets and what options they carry.
.TP
.B \--desc DESCRIPTION
When using \fB--add-preset\fR use this option to add a description of the preset
that will be displayed when using \fB--list-presets\fR.
.TP
.B \-s, \--sysroot SYSROOT
Specify an alternate root file system path. Useful for collecting
reports from containers and images.
.TP
.B \-c, \--chroot {auto|always|never}
Set the chroot mode. When \--sysroot is used commands default to
executing with SYSROOT as the root directory (unless disabled by
a specific plugin). This can be overriden by setting \--chroot to
"always" (always chroot) or "never" (always run in the host
namespace).
.TP
.B \--tmp-dir DIRECTORY
Specify alternate temporary directory to copy data as well as the
compressed report.
.TP
.B \--list-profiles
Display a list of available profiles and the plugins that they enable.
.TP
.B \-p, \--profile NAME
Only run plugins that correspond to the given profile. Multple profiles
may be specified as a comma-separated list; the set of plugins executed
is the union of each of the profile's plugin sets. Currently defined
profiles include: boot, cluster, desktop, debug, hardware, identity,
network, openstack, packagemanager, security, services, storage,
sysmgmt, system, performance, virt, and webserver.
.TP
.B \--verify
Instructs plugins to perform plugin-specific verification during data
collection. This may include package manager verification, log integrity
testing or other plugin defined behaviour. Use of \--verify may cause
the time taken to generate a report to be considerably longer.
.TP
.B \--log-size
Places a global limit on the size (in MiB) of any collected set of logs. The
limit is applied separately for each set of logs collected by any
plugin.
.TP
.B \--all-logs
Tell plugins to collect all possible log data ignoring any size limits
and including logs in non-default locations. This option may significantly
increase the size of reports.
.TP
.B \--since YYYYMMDD[HHMMSS]
Limits the collection to logs newer than this date.
This also affects \--all-logs. Will pad with 0s if HHMMSS isn't specified.
.TP
.B \-z, \--compression-type METHOD
Override the default compression type specified by the active policy.
.TP
.B \--encrypt-key KEY
Encrypts the resulting archive that sosreport produces using GPG. KEY must be
an existing key in the user's keyring as GPG does not allow for keyfiles.
KEY can be any value accepted by gpg's 'recipient' option.
Note that the user running sosreport must match the user owning the keyring
from which keys will be obtained. In particular this means that if sudo is
used to run sosreport, the keyring must also be set up using sudo
(or direct shell access to the account).
Users should be aware that encrypting the final archive will result in sos
using double the amount of temporary disk space - the encrypted archive must be
written as a separate, rather than replacement, file within the temp directory
that sos writes the archive to. However, since the encrypted archive will be
the same size as the original archive, there is no additional space consumption
once the temporary directory is removed at the end of execution.
This means that only the encrypted archive is present on disk after sos
finishes running.
If encryption fails for any reason, the original unencrypted archive is
preserved instead.
.TP
.B \--encrypt-pass PASS
The same as \--encrypt-key, but use the provided PASS for symmetric encryption
rather than key-pair encryption.
.TP
.B \--batch
Generate archive without prompting for interactive input.
.TP
.B \--name NAME
Deprecated. See \--label
.TP
.B \--label LABEL
Specify an arbitrary identifier to associate with the archive.
Labels will be appended after the system's short hostname and may contain
alphanumeric characters.
.TP
.B \--threads THREADS
Specify the number of threads sosreport will use for concurrency. Defaults to 4.
.TP
.B \--plugin-timeout TIMEOUT
Specify a timeout in seconds to allow each plugin to run for. A value of 0
means no timeout will be set.
Note that this options sets the timeout for all plugins. If you want to set
a timeout for a specific plugin, use the 'timeout' plugin option available to
all plugins - e.g. '-k logs.timeout=600'.
The plugin-specific timeout option will override this option. For example, using
\'--plugin-timeout=60 -k logs.timeout=600\' will set a timeout of 600 seconds for
the logs plugin and 60 seconds for all other enabled plugins.
.TP
.B \--case-id NUMBER
Specify a case identifier to associate with the archive.
Identifiers may include alphanumeric characters, commas and periods ('.').
Synonymous with \--ticket-number.
.TP
.B \--ticket-number NUMBER
Specify a ticket number or other identifier to associate with the archive.
Identifiers may include alphanumeric characters, commas and periods ('.').
Synonymous with \--case-id.
.TP
.B \--build
Do not archive copied data. Causes sosreport to leave an uncompressed
archive as a temporary file or directory tree.
.TP
.B \--debug
Enable interactive debugging using the python debugger. Exceptions in
sos or plug-in code will cause a trap to the pdb shell.
.TP
.B \--dry-run
Execute plugins as normal, but do not collect any file content, command
output, or string data from the system. The resulting logs may be used
to understand the actions that sos would have taken without the dry run
option.
.TP
.B \--experimental
Enable plugins marked as experimental. Experimental plugins may not have
been tested for this port or may still be under active development.
.TP
.B \--help
Display usage message.
.SH MAINTAINER
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Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@redhat.com>
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.SH AUTHORS & CONTRIBUTORS
See \fBAUTHORS\fR file in the package documentation.
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