dreport

dreport is a shell script that uses plugin shell scripts to collect debug information about the system and package it into a tar.xz archive file.

The phosphor-dump-manager application will automatically run dreport in certain failure cases, and it can also be run manually by running dreport or dreport -v.

Dump Types

The dump types are defined in sample.conf:

• core: Triggered by an application core dump
• user: The type when manually called, such as from running dreport.
• elog: Triggered when there are specific phosphor-logging event logs.
• checkstop: Triggered on a specific type of host crash.
• ramoops: Triggered when there is a kernel panic.

Plugins

The plugins are the shell scripts in the plugins.d subdirectory. They can call provided functions to add data to the dump archive. Each plugin needs a comment line like the following to specify which dump types should trigger it:

# config A B

• 'A' is a sequence of the dump types from the mapping defined in sample.conf.
• 'B' is a priority determines the order the plugins run in.

For example, the bmcstate plugin has:

# config: 12345 5

It will run on dump types 1 (core), 2 (user), 3 (checkstop), 4 (checkstop), and 5 (ramooops) with a priority of 5.

During the bitbake build, the script will be linked into a directory based on the dump type, with the priority built into the name:

/usr/share/dreport.d# find /usr/share/dreport.d/ -name *bmcstate
/usr/share/dreport.d/plugins.d/bmcstate
/usr/share/dreport.d/pl_user.d/E5bmcstate
/usr/share/dreport.d/pl_checkstop.d/E5bmcstate
/usr/share/dreport.d/pl_elog.d/E5bmcstate
/usr/share/dreport.d/pl_core.d/E5bmcstate