Talk: Frist Pass Linux Kernel Dump

Kdump is a kernel crash dumping mechanism that allows you to save the contents of the system’s memory for later analysis. A kernel crash dump can be the only information available in the event of a failure, the importance of having this data in a business critical environment cannot be underestimated.

This presentation is a preliminary talk about 3W1H for kdump in linux environment.

Frist Pass Linux Kernel Dump

Learning Objectives - Why we are here ?

• Care Why
  • Effective action plan development for outage case
• Know Why
  • Direct evidence finding instead of the best guess on action plan development
• Know How
  • Build it and test it
• Know What
  • What is kdump ?
  • How does it work ?

Agenda

• How kdump work
• Kdump setup/validation
• Serial console
• First Pass Kdump Analysis
• Labs

Silde Pages: fplkd.pdf