Collecting OSWatcher Logs for a Particular Period of Time

1.  As <ROOT_USER>, log in to Node 1 and cd to the “/tmp” directory.

2.  Use “vi” or editor of your choice, to create the “osw_capture” script as shown below.

osw_capture:

3.  Save script as “osw_capture” and give the script execute permission.

4. When run, the “osw_capture” script takes 4 arguments:

• Timestamp on the log file(s) expressed in YY.MM.DD format.
• First two digits of the log collection starting hour – acceptable values of 00 through 23 where 00 denotes 12 AM and where 23 denotes 11 PM.
• First two digits of the log collection ending hour – acceptable values of 00 through 23 where 00 denotes 12 AM and where 23 denotes 11 PM.
• Output directory for holding the results.

5. Run the script with the arguments specific to your collection. For example to collect logs on a single host for July 2, 2019 from 7AM to 12 PM with the output being placed in the /u03/osw_capture directory, execute as shown below:

6. To capture the logs on all hosts:

a) Copy the file to all hosts and to a staging directory “/tmp”:

b) Verify:

c) Run the script to collect logs on all hosts and place the zip file in the output directory:

d) Verify, in this case the output is in a zip file under /u03/osw_capture: