Specifications

This section summarizes the System Administrator applications, the networking utilities, and the

Advanced Debugging Tools (for more information on using these tools to configure the Red Hat

Virtualization services, see the respective configuration documentation). You can employ these

standard System Administrator Tools and logs to assist with troubleshooting:

• xentop

• xm dmesg

• xm log

• vmstat

• iostat

• lsof

You can employ these Advanced Debugging Tools and logs to assist with troubleshooting:

• XenOprofile

• systemTap

• crash

• sysrq

• sysrq t

• sysrq w

You can employ these Networking Tools to assist with troubleshooting:

• ifconfig

• tcpdump

• brctl

brctl is a networking tool that inspects and configures the ethernet bridge configuration in the

Virtualization linux kernel. You must have root access before performing these example

commands:

# brctl show

bridge-name bridge-id STP enabled interfaces

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Troubleshooting Tools