Objective

The following article, guides you through the process of generating SUSE logs using the command supportconfig.

Environment

• SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES)

• Data Collection

Procedure

Use the following procedure to generate SUSE logs:

1. Open a shell and become root.
2. Run the command supportconfig. If the supportconfig command fails, check for the supportutils package. If it’s not installed, Click Here
   
   user-root#supportconfig
    
3. Wait for the tool the results.
4. Find the file in /var/log . The file name format be something like scc_HOST_DATE_TIME.tbz

Additional Notes

You might want to specify the search. In the following table, you will see the most common options.