[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-bugtool: Ability to collect number of logs through plugins.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Mon Feb 25 21:01:54 UTC 2013


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:58:00PM -0800, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:21:06AM -0800, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> >> A new option "--log-days" recently added lets us to control the
> >> number of rotated logs included in the debug bundle. This option
> >> only works on log files defined inside the ovs-bugtool code.
> >>
> >> This patch lets us to do the same with logs collected through plugins.
> >>
> >> The example format inside a plugin is:
> >> <files type="logs">
> >>     /var/log/one
> >> </files>
> >>
> >> This will collect one, one.[1-x], one.[1-x].gz. Where 'x' is 20
> >> by default and can be controlled by the option '--log-days' passed
> >> to ovs-bugtool.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>
> >
> > I am a little worried about this because it means that we will get
> > different behavior when we install a given plugin for use by
> > ovs-bugtool or for use by xen-bugtool.  So far, we've been able to use
> > the same plugins for both.  Do you have any thoughts about that?
> 
> A capability like this seems useful on non-xenserver platforms.  But I see
> how this can create a Xen debug bundle (through xen-bugtool) with less
> number of logs than expected. One can leave this to the discretion of the
> plugin writer (that uses this to collect logs not found or not
> required in xenserver).
> Do you have any ideas for a cleaner solution here?

I don't have any great ideas.

Let's go ahead and push it.  I guess we can always ask for an
ovs-bugtool if the xen-bugtool isn't good enough.



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