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SOS_REPORT(1) General Commands Manual SOS_REPORT(1)
NAME
sos_report - Collect and package diagnostic and support data
SYNOPSIS
sos report
[-l|--list-plugins]
[-n|--skip-plugins plugin-names]
[-e|--enable-plugins plugin-names]
[-o|--only-plugins plugin-names]
[-a|--alloptions] [-v|--verbose]
[-k plug.opt|--plugin-option plug.opt]|--plugopts plug.opt
[--no-report] [--config-file conf]
[--no-postproc]
[--preset preset] [--add-preset add_preset]
[--del-preset del_preset] [--desc description]
[--batch] [--build] [--debug] [--dry-run]
[--estimate-only] [--label label] [--case-id id]
[--threads threads]
[--plugin-timeout TIMEOUT]
[--cmd-timeout TIMEOUT]
[--namespaces NAMESPACES]
[--container-runtime RUNTIME]
[-s|--sysroot SYSROOT]
[-c|--chroot {auto|always|never}
[--tmp-dir directory]
[-p|--profile profile-name]
[--list-profiles]
[--verify]
[--log-size]
[--journal-size]
[--all-logs]
[--since YYYYMMDD[HHMMSS]]
[--skip-commands commands]
[--skip-files files]
[--allow-system-changes]
[--low-priority]
[-z|--compression-type method]
[--encrypt]
[--encrypt-key KEY]
[--encrypt-pass PASS]
[--upload] [--upload-url url] [--upload-user user]
[--upload-directory dir] [--upload-pass pass]
[--upload-no-ssl-verify] [--upload-method]
[--upload-protocol protocol]
[--experimental]
[-h|--help]
DESCRIPTION
report is an sos subcommand that generates an archive of configuration and diagnostic in-
formation 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, devel-
opers or system administrators to assist with technical fault-finding and debugging.
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.
Note: the sosreport command has been deprecated and will be removed in sos-4.9. Use the
new sos report syntax instead.
OPTIONS
-l, --list-plugins
List all available plugins and their options. Plug-ins that would not be enabled by
the current configuration are listed separately.
-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.
-e, --enable-plugins PLUGNAME[,PLUGNAME]
Enable the specified plugin(s) that would otherwise be disabled. Multiple plugins
may be specified by repeating the option or as a comma-separated list.
Note that if using -p, --profile this option will not enable further plugins. Use
-o, --only-plugins to extend the list of plugins enabled by profiles.
-o, --only-plugins PLUGNAME[,PLUGNAME]
Enable the specified plugin(s) only (all other plugins should be disabled). Multi-
ple plugins may be specified by repeating the option or as a comma-separated list.
-k PLUGNAME.PLUGOPT[=VALUE], --plugin-option=PLUGNAME.PLUGOPT[=VALUE], --plugopts=PLUG-
NAME.PLUGOPT[=VALUE]
Specify plug-in options. The option PLUGOPT is enabled, or set to the specified
value in the plug-in PLUGNAME.
-a, --alloptions
Set all boolean options to True for all enabled plug-ins.
-v, --verbose
Increase logging verbosity. May be specified multiple times to enable additional
debugging messages.
-q, --quiet
Only log fatal errors to stderr.
--no-report
Disable HTML report writing.
--config-file CONFIG
Specify alternate configuration file.
--no-postproc
Disable postprocessing globally for all plugins. This will mean data is not obfus-
cated/sanitized from the archive during collection.
Note that this means data such as password, SSH keys, certificates, etc... will be
collected in plain text.
To selectively disable postprocessing on a per-plugin basis, use the 'postproc'
plugin option available to all plugins, e.g. '-k podman.postproc=off'.
--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 exam-
ple a preset may enable a certain set of plugins, disable others, or enable spe-
cific plugin options. They may also specify sos options such as log-size or package
verification.
User defined presets are saved under /etc/sos/presets.d as JSON-formatted files.
--add-preset ADD_PRESET [options]
Add a preset with name ADD_PRESET that enables [options] when called.
For example, 'sos report --add-preset mypreset --log-size=50 -n logs' will enable a
user to run 'sos report --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 --list-presets,
use the --desc option.
Note: to set a behaviour note of the preset, use --note option.
Note: The root filesystem, as seen by sos if running within a container, must be
writable to save presets using this option.
--del-preset DEL_PRESET
Deletes the preset with name DEL_PRESET from the filesystem so that it can no
longer be used.
--list-presets
Display a list of available presets and what options they carry.
--desc DESCRIPTION
When using --add-preset use this option to add a description of the preset that
will be displayed when using --list-presets.
-s, --sysroot SYSROOT
Specify an alternate root file system path. Useful for collecting reports from con-
tainers and images.
-c, --chroot {auto|always|never}
Set the chroot mode. When --sysroot is used commands default to executing with SYS-
ROOT as the root directory (unless disabled by a specific plugin). This can be
overridden by setting --chroot to "always" (always chroot) or "never" (always run
in the host namespace).
--tmp-dir DIRECTORY
Specify alternate temporary directory to copy data as well as the compressed re-
port.
--list-profiles
Display a list of available profiles and the plugins that they enable.
-p, --profile, --profiles NAME
Only run plugins that correspond to the given profile. Multiple 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.
Note that if there are specific plugins outside of the profile(s) passed to this
option that you would also want to enable, use -o, --only-plugins to add those
plugins to the list.
See sos report --list-profiles for a list of currently supported profiles.
--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.
--log-size
Places a limit on the size of collected logs and output in MiB. Note that this
causes sos to capture the last X amount of the file or command output collected.
By default, this is set to 25 MiB and applies to all files and command output col-
lected with the exception of journal collections, which are limited by the --jour-
nal-size option instead.
Setting this value to 0 removes all size limitations, and any files or commands
collected will be collected in their entirety, which may drastically increase the
size of the final sos report tarball and the memory usage of sos during collection
of commands.
--journal-size
Places a limit on the size of journals collected in MiB. Note that this causes sos
to capture the last X amount of the journal.
By default, this is set to 100 MiB. Setting this value to 0 removes all size limi-
tations, as does the use of the --all-logs option. This may drastically increase
the size of the final sos report tarball.
--all-logs
Tell plugins to collect all possible log data ignoring any size limits and includ-
ing logs in non-default locations. This option may significantly increase the size
of reports.
--since YYYYMMDD[HHMMSS]
Limits the collection of log archives to those newer than this date. A log archive
is any file not found in /etc, that has either a numeric or a compression-type file
extension for example ".zip". ".1", ".gz" etc.). This also affects --all-logs. The
date string will be padded with zeros if HHMMSS is not specified.
--skip-commands COMMANDS
A comma delimited list of commands to skip execution of, but still allowing the
rest of the plugin that calls the command to run. This will generally need to be
some form of UNIX shell-style wildcard matching. For example, using a value of
hostname will skip only that single command, while using hostname* will skip all
commands with names that begin with the string "hostname".
--skip-files FILES
A comma delimited list of files or filepath wildcard matches to skip collection of.
Values may either be exact filepaths or paths using UNIX shell-style wildcards, for
example /etc/sos/*.
--allow-system-changes
Run commands even if they can change the system (e.g. load kernel modules).
--low-priority
Set sos to execute as a low priority process so that is does not interfere with
other processes running on the system. Specific distributions may set their own
constraints, but by default this involves setting process niceness to 19 and, if
available, setting an idle IO class via ionice. -z, --compression-type METHOD
Override the default compression type specified by the active policy.
--encrypt
Encrypt the resulting archive, and determine the method by which that encryption is
done by either a user prompt or environment variables.
When run with --batch, using this option will cause sos to look for either the
SOSENCRYPTKEY or SOSENCRYPTPASS environment variables. If set, this will implicitly
enable the --encrypt-key or --encrypt-pass options, respectively, to the values set
by the environment variable. This enables the use of these options without directly
setting those options in a config file or command line string. Note that use of an
encryption key has precedence over a passphrase.
Otherwise, using this option will cause sos to prompt the user to choose the method
of encryption to use. Choices will be [P]assphrase, [K]ey, [E]nv vars, or [N]o en-
cryption. If passphrase or key the user will then be prompted for the respective
value, env vars will cause sos to source the information in the manner stated
above, and choosing no encryption will disable encryption.
See the sections on --encrypt-key and --encrypt-pass below for more information.
--encrypt-key KEY
Encrypts the resulting archive that sos report 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 sos report must match the user owning the keyring from
which keys will be obtained. In particular this means that if sudo is used to run
sos report, 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 tempo-
rary 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.
--encrypt-pass PASS
The same as --encrypt-key, but use the provided PASS for symmetric encryption
rather than key-pair encryption.
--batch
Generate archive without prompting for interactive input.
--name NAME
Deprecated. See --label
--label LABEL
Specify an arbitrary identifier to associate with the archive. Labels will be ap-
pended after the system's short hostname and may contain alphanumeric characters.
--threads THREADS
Specify the number of threads sos report will use for concurrency. Defaults to 4.
--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. A value of -1 is used to indicate the default timeout of 300
seconds.
Note that this option sets the timeout for all plugins. If you want to set a time-
out 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.
--cmd-timeout TIMEOUT
Specify a timeout limit in seconds for a command execution. Same defaults logic
from --plugin-timeout applies here.
This option sets the command timeout for all plugins. If you want to set a cmd
timeout for a specific plugin, use the 'cmd-timeout' plugin option available to all
plugins - e.g. '-k logs.cmd-timeout=600'.
Again, the same plugin/global precedence logic as for --plugin-timeout applies
here.
Note that setting --cmd-timeout (or -k logs.cmd-timeout) high should be followed by
increasing the --plugin-timeout equivalent, otherwise the plugin can easily timeout
on slow commands execution.
--namespaces NAMESPACES
For plugins that iterate collections over namespaces that exist on the system, for
example the networking plugin collecting `ip` command output for each network name-
space, use this option to limit the number of namespaces that will be collected.
Use '0' (default) for no limit - all namespaces will be used for collections.
Note that specific plugins may provide a similar `namespaces` plugin option. If the
plugin option is used, it will override this option.
--container-runtime RUNTIME
Force the use of the specified RUNTIME as the default runtime that plugins will use
to collect data from and about containers and container images. By default, the
setting of auto results in the local policy determining what runtime will be the
default runtime (in configurations where multiple runtimes are installed and ac-
tive).
If no container runtimes are active, this option is ignored. If there are runtimes
active, but not one with a name matching RUNTIME, sos will abort.
Setting this to none, off, or disabled will cause plugins to NOT leverage any ac-
tive runtimes for collections. Note that if disabled, plugins specifically for run-
times (e.g. the podman or docker plugins) will still collect general data about the
runtime, but will not inspect existing containers or images.
Default: 'auto' (policy determined)
--case-id NUMBER
Specify a case identifier to associate with the archive. Identifiers may include
alphanumeric characters, commas and periods ('.').
--build
Do not archive copied data. Causes sos report to leave an uncompressed archive as a
temporary file or directory tree.
--debug
Enable interactive debugging using the python debugger. Exceptions in sos or plug-
in code will cause a trap to the pdb shell.
--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 ac-
tions that sos would have taken without the dry run option.
--estimate-only
Estimate disk space requirements when running sos report. This can be valuable to
prevent sos report working dir to consume all free disk space. No plugin data is
available at the end.
Plugins will be collected sequentially, size of collected files and commands out-
puts will be calculated and the plugin files will be immediately deleted prior exe-
cution of the next plugin. This still can consume whole free disk space, though.
Please note, size estimations may not be accurate for highly utilized systems due
to changes between an estimate and a real execution. Also some difference between
estimation (using `stat` command) and other commands used (i.e. `du`).
A rule of thumb is to reserve at least double the estimation.
--upload
If specified, attempt to upload the resulting archive to a vendor defined location.
This option is implied if --upload-url is used.
You may be prompted for a username and password if these are not defined by the
vendor as well. If these credentials are not provided, sos will still run and cre-
ate an archive but will not attempt an automatic upload, instead relying on the end
user to upload it as needed.
The sos report archive will still remain on the local filesystem even after a suc-
cessful upload.
Note that depending on the distribution sos is being run on, or the vendor policy
detected during execution, there may be dependencies that are not strictly required
by the package at installation time.
For example, for HTTPS uploads the python-requests library must be available. If
this library is not available, HTTPS uploads will not be attempted.
--upload-url URL
If a vendor does not provide a default upload location, or if you would like to up-
load the archive to a different location, specify the address here.
A support protocol MUST be specified in this URL. Currently uploading is supported
for HTTPS, SFTP, and FTP protocols.
If your destination server listens on a non-standard port, specify the listening
port in the URL.
--upload-user USER
If a vendor does not provide a default user for uploading, specify the username
here.
If this option is unused and upload is request, and a vendor default is not set,
you will be prompted for one. If --batch is used and this option is omitted, no
username will be collected and thus uploads will fail if no vendor default is set.
You also have the option of providing this value via the SOSUPLOADUSER environment
variable. If this variable is set, then no username prompt will occur and --batch
may be used provided all other required values (case number, upload password) are
provided.
This option is ignored when uploading to the Red Customer Portal or Red Hat Secure
FTP server in favour of web token authentication.
--upload-pass PASS
Specify the password to use for authentication with the destination server.
If this option is omitted and upload is requested, you will be prompted for one.
If --batch is used, this prompt will not occur, so any uploads are likely to fail
unless this option is used.
Note that this may result in the plaintext string appearing in `ps` output that may
be collected by sos and be in the archive. If a password must be provided by you
for uploading, it is strongly recommended to not use --batch and enter the password
when prompted rather than using this option.
You also have the option of providing this value via the SOSUPLOADPASSWORD environ-
ment variable. If this variable is set, then no password prompt will occur and
--batch may be used provided all other required values (case number, upload user)
are provided.
This option is ignored when uploading to the Red Customer Portal or Red Hat Secure
FTP server in favour of web token authentication.
--upload-directory DIR
Specify a directory to upload to, if one is not specified by a vendor default loca-
tion or if your destination server does not allow writes to '/'.
--upload-method METHOD
Specify the HTTP method to use for uploading to the provided --upload-url. Valid
values are 'auto' (default), 'put', or 'post'. The use of 'auto' will default to
the method required by the policy-default upload location, if one exists.
This option has no effect on upload protocols other than HTTPS.
--upload-no-ssl-verify
Disable SSL verification for HTTPS uploads. This may be used to allow uploading to
locations that have self-signed certificates, or certificates that are otherwise
untrusted by the local system.
Default behavior is to perform SSL verification against all upload locations.
--upload-protocol PROTO
Manually specify the protocol to use for uploading to the target upload-url.
Normally this is determined via the upload address, assuming that the protocol is
part of the address provided, e.g. 'https://example.com'. By using this option, sos
will skip the protocol check and use the method defined for the specified PROTO.
For RHEL systems, setting this option to sftp will skip the initial attempt to up-
load to the Red Hat Customer Portal, and only attempt an upload to Red Hat's SFTP
server, which is typically used as a fallback target.
Valid values for PROTO are: 'auto' (default), 'https', 'ftp', 'sftp'.
--experimental
Enable plugins marked as experimental. Experimental plugins may not have been
tested for this port or may still be under active development.
--help Display usage message.
SEE ALSO
sos(1) sos-clean(1) sos-collect(1) sos.conf(5)
MAINTAINER
Maintained on GitHub at https://github.com/sosreport/sos
AUTHORS & CONTRIBUTORS
See AUTHORS file in the package documentation.
Mon Mar 25 2013 SOS_REPORT(1)
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