druddle

How many people that look after Solaris servers boot with kadb enabled ? Is it normal practice ??

I know with clustering you need it enabled so the cluster console can panic a node in the cluster, but what about standalone machines ?

Dave

stevencotton

kadb is a kernel debugger, only usually run it if you want to debug something.

Steve.

druddle

I just wanted to know if people used kadb to debug machines when they panic, or if you just send the dump to Sun/FSC !

As i said above, it is essential in clusters so that the console can put the nodes into kadb to panic them. I guess its not a normal thing to do on a standalone box then!!

Dave

[Edited by druddle - 1/31/2003 11:41:33 AM]

stevencotton

For the services I run on Solaris I don't need kernel debug output, a backtrace of the core dump is usually enough - should it ever happen

Steve.

DrEvil

Ditto Steve

Usually run iscda against the crash dumps and run the results through SunSolve prior to logging a call with Sun (if necessary, ie. no patch available or bug logged).

On sun4m I used to use adb on the crash dumps and pull out the information... ah those were the days... (not).