[sos-devel] sosreport grab /opt directory

[Kaushal Shriyan]

Hi Bryn,

is there a full or expanded form of sos in sosreport?

Regards,

Kaushal

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Bryn M. Reeves <bmr at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 04:33:47PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>> > I am using sosreport on RHEL 6.6, is there a way to include /opt
>> directory
>> > using sosreport where my application is running. I read the man
>> sosreport
>> > and did not see any option to do it. Any help will be really
>> appreciable.
>>
>> Not really: /opt is a potentially very large (10s or 100s of GiB in some
>> instances) directory tree and is one of the top-level FHS standard paths.
>>
>> We do not collect anything in sos as indiscriminately as this - both for
>> privacy reasons (we do not know if we are collecting keys, passwords, or
>> other secrets) and for the space consumed in doing so.
>>
>> If specific applications make use of known paths in /opt then we will
>> consider making additions to plugins that support those applications.
>>
>> You could package up any additions you require from /opt using the
>> tar tool - either as a separate archive or updating an existing sos
>> tarball.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bryn.
>>
>>
> Thanks Bryn for the explanation and much appreciated. I will appreciate if
> there is a way to handle this specific use case using plugins or some
> elegant and efficient mechanism that way it would be a awesome tool for us
> to push it more than 1000 servers in our Infrastructure.
>
> Please advise.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kaushal
>
>
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