Archiving Crashfiles Information - Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Configuration Manual

Archiving Crashfiles Information

When you enter ROMMON mode, the prompt changes to rommon 1>. Use the ? command to see the
available ROMMON commands.
For more information about the ROMMON commands, refer to the Cisco IOS Command Reference.
Archiving Crashfiles Information
This feature allows you to archive crashinfo files (otherwise overwritten if another system reset were to
happen first to the bootflash). Having access to archived crashinfo data greatly assists in troubleshooting.
To archive crashinfo files, perform this task:
Command
Step 1
Switch# configure terminal
Step 2
Switch(config)# exception crashinfo file
bootflash: name
Step 3
Switch(config)# end
Step 4
Switch# show running-config
Step 5
Switch# copy running-config startup-config
Displaying a Crash Dump for Supervisor Engine 6-E and 6L-E
A crash dump provides the following information:
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To display a crash dump, do the following:
Switch# show platform crashdump
Current Time: 9/6/2010 15:47:21
Last Power Failure: 09/06/2010 15:03:28
Last Reload Status: 00002000
Last Software Reset State: 00000000
Crashdump version: 1
Last crash: 09/06/2010 06:21:58
Build: 12.2(20100723:074204) ENTSERVICES
buildversion addr: 14847D24
Software Configuration Guide—Release IOS XE 3.3.0SG and IOS 15.1(1)SG
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Malloc or free traces
Chuck alloc/free traces
Process block dump
Register memory dump
Current proc stack partial decode
Interrupt level stack
Last 128 memory block dump
Chapter 2
Purpose
Enters global configuration mode.
Enables archiving crashinfo files to bootflash. The files
are stored in bootflash with the name specified
concatenated with the date.
Returns to privileged EXEC mode.
Verifies your entries.
(Optional) Saves your entries in the configuration file.
Command-Line Interfaces
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