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Linux, ESXi
Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) is a tool from IBM which collects software and hardware
information from a server running IBM Hardware. If you open a ticket with IBM support,
they will ask for DSA log from the server in question.
System configuration
Installed packages
Kernel Modules
Network interfaces and settings
Performance data and details for running processes
Hardware inventory, including PCI & USB information
IBM LightPath(TM) status
Service Processor status and configuration
Vital product data, firmware, and basic input/output system
(BIOS) information
Drive Health Information
ServeRAID configuration
LSI RAID & Controller configuration
Event logs for the operating system, ServeRAID controllers,
and service processors
To collect DSA logs from a server running Linux, Windows, ESXi and ESX
Make it executable
To generate DSA output
# ./ibm_utl_dsa_dsyte1d-9.61_portable_rhel6_x86-64.bin
Provide the xml.gz file to IBM unless otherwise asked for other files.
# ./ibm_utl_dsa_dsyte1d-9.61_portable_rhel6_x86-64.bin -v
Writing HTML files to directory /tmp/7915AC1_XXXXX_20160316-071100
# ./ibm_utl_dsa_dsyte1d-9.61_portable_rhel6_x86-64.bin
--vmware-esxi root:'Password!'@esxi.example.com