Netconsole

= Netconsole with UDP =


 * Configuring netconsole on the 2.6 kernel
 * 1) add this line "netconsole=[src-port]@[src-ip]/[ ],[tgt-port]@/[tgt-macaddr]" in your boot command line.
 * 2) bootup the netconsole machine.
 * 3) 2.6 netconsole has been setup.
 * Configure conman over netconsole, download conman from http://downloads.lustre.org/public/tools/conman/
 * 1) edit your /etc/conman.conf, make sure you have set SERVER logdir, SERVER logfile, SERVER port,
 * add following line in /etc/conman.conf
 * NETCONSOLE name="netconsole" dev="client1_ip_address:client1_port" (clientX is netconsole machine)
 * NETCONSOLE1 name="netconsole" dev="client2_ip_address:client2_port"
 * 2) start conmand server conmand
 * 3) start conman netconsole with conman -d conmand_server_ip:conmand_server_port NETCONSOLEx
 * 4) Input sysrq command (& + S + sysrq_command) over conman netconsole, you will get the result in conman netconsole
 * 4) Input sysrq command (& + S + sysrq_command) over conman netconsole, you will get the result in conman netconsole

There is a netconsole patch available that supports kernel level network logging over UDP. More information and a link to the kernel patches can be found at:.


 * LinuxDebugging