Hello Friends,

Are there any free tools available to compare sosreport, which will help to diagnose the issue.

Thanks-
Shankar

You keep posting questions related to RHEL...have you contacted RedHat Support??? Checked their knowledgebase? You ARE paying for RHEL support, aren't you?
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-3593

This is a tool for RHEL and similar systems. It creates a bzipp'ed file, which you can un-zip, and examine.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

I have created sosreport but my query is there any free tools available to run and check the sosreport?
I have uncompressed the file and opened one by one.

Thanks-
Shankar

Again, you should call RedHat support, since that is an RHEL utility.

You don't say what you're checking FOR, or what your goal(s) are, or how many reports you are wanting to look at, so it's hard to say. Since you can uncompress it, writing a Perl or bash program to look for strings, compare two reports, etc., should be a trivial thing.

I think you are a bit confused about what sosreport is.

If you have an issue, Red Hat will get you to run sosreport. It collects all your config file in /etc, kernel and hardware settings in /proc and /sys, and runs basic utilities such as df, free, iostat, vmstat, ps, etc. It then creates a compressed tar file of the results which you then email to Red Hat. That way they can see your settings and the running state of the machine without needing to login themselves.

There is no debug info in an sosreport. It is not a crash dump. You personally don't need it. You have access to your own system, so you can check your own settings and run any utilites yourself.

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Hi,

Yes, my question was only for any availability tools used to compare sosreport.

I have checked with redhat support and they are also using it manually.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Rgds,
Shankar