HP BL680c XenServer Administrator's Guide 4.1.0 - Page 105
Troubleshooting
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Chapter 6. Troubleshooting If you experience odd behavior, application crashes, or have other issues with a XenServer Host, this chapter is meant to help you solve the problem if possible and, failing that, describes where the application logs are located and other information that can help your Citrix Solution Provider and Citrix track and resolve the issue. Troubleshooting of installation issues is covered in the XenServer Installation Guide. Troubleshooting of Virtual Machine issues is covered in the XenServer Virtual Machine Installation Guide. Important We recommend that you follow the troubleshooting information in this chapter solely under the guidance of your Citrix Solution Provider or Citrix Support. Citrix provides two forms of support: you can receive free self-help support via the Support site, or you may purchase our Support Services and directly submit requests by filing an online Support Case. Our free webbased resources include product documentation, a Knowledge Base, and discussion forums. 6.1. XenServer Host logs The XenCenter can be used to gather XenServer Host information. Click on Get Server Status Report... in the Tools menu to open the Server Status Report wizard. You can select from a list of different types of information (various logs, crash dumps, etc.). The information is compiled and downloaded to the machine that XenCenter is running on. For details, see the XenCenter Help. Additionally, the XenServer Host has several CLI commands to make it simple to collate the output of logs and various other bits of system information using the utility xen-bugtool. Use the xe command host-bugreport-upload to collect the appropriate log files and system information and upload them to the Citrix Support ftp site. Please refer to Section 5.4.5.2, "host-bugreport-upload" for a full description of this command and its optional parameters. If you are requested to send a crashdump to Citrix Support, use the xe command host-crashdump-upload. Please refer to Section 5.4.5.4, "host-crashdump-upload" for a full description of this command and its optional parameters. Caution It is possible that sensitive information might be written into the XenServer Host logs. By default, the server logs report only errors and warnings. If you need to see more detailed information, you can enable more verbose logging. To do so, use the host-loglevel-set command: host-loglevel-set log-level=level where level can be 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, where 0 is the most verbose and 4 is the least verbose. Log files greater than 5 MB are rotated, keeping 4 revisions. The logrotate command is run hourly. 6.1.1. Sending log messages to a central server Rather than have logs written to the control domain filesystem, you can configure a XenServer Host to write them to a remote server. The remote server must have the syslogd daemon running on it to receive the logs 99