tpaexec archive-logs#
To create a log directory and archive logs from instances, run
tpaexec archive-logs <cluster-dir>
This will create a logs/YYYYMMDDHHMMss/ directory in your cluster directory and download a tar.gz archive of all the files under /var/log on each instance in the cluster into a separate directory.
Prerequisites#
If you have an existing cluster you can run tpaexec archive-logs
immediately. But if you are configuring a new cluster, you must at least
Provisioning the deployment the cluster. You will get more logs if you also A First Cluster Deployment the cluster.
Quickstart#
[tpa]$ tpaexec archive-logs ~/clusters/speedy
PLAY [Prepare local host archive] *******************************************
TASK [Collect facts] ********************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [Set time stamp] *******************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [Create local log archive directory] ***********************************
changed: [localhost]
PLAY [Archive log files from target instances] ******************************
...
TASK [Remove remote archives] ***********************************************
changed: [kinship]
changed: [khaki]
changed: [uncivil]
changed: [urchin]
PLAY RECAP ******************************************************************
khaki : ok=3 changed=3 unreachable=0 failed=0
kinship : ok=3 changed=3 unreachable=0 failed=0
localhost : ok=3 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0
uncivil : ok=3 changed=3 unreachable=0 failed=0
urchin : ok=3 changed=3 unreachable=0 failed=0
You can append -v , -vv , etc. to the command if you want more
verbose output.
Generated files#
You can find the logs for each instance under the cluster directory:
~/clusters/speedy/logs/
`-- 220220306T185049
|-- khaki-logs-20220306T185049.tar.gz
|-- kinship-logs-20220306T185049.tar.gz
|-- uncivil-logs-20220306T185049.tar.gz
`-- urchin-logs-20220306T185049.tar.gz
Archive contents example: