If your support agent asks you to create a support bundle for troubleshooting purposes, follow this procedure. The bundle creation process extracts information from your VAST Cluster into a compressed file that you can send to us. There is also an option to download support bundle files to your own machine.
You may choose to obfuscate sensitive data.
By default, data is collected from all CNodes and DNodes. Optionally you can restrict it to specific nodes.
The previous bundle file on each node is overwritten when you create a new one, unless you choose the option to create an aggregated bundle. Aggregated bundles contain all data from all nodes included, are saved on the management CNode and are not overwritten.
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From the left navigation menu, select Support and then Bundles.
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Click Create Support bundle.
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In the Create Bundle dialog, complete these fields:
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Optionally, select Advanced and further specify which data to collect:
CNodes only
Enable this setting to collect data from CNodes only.
DNodes only
Enable this setting to collect data from DNodes only.
Select Cnodes
Select specific CNodes to collect data from those CNodes and not from the other CNodes. This selection is ignored if DNodes only is selected.
Select Dnodes
Select specific DNodes to collect data from those DNodes and not from the other DNodes. This selection is ignored if CNodes only is selected.
Hubble args
Enter any arguments to pass to Hubble, per instructions from the support engineer.
Astron args
Enter any arguments to pass to Astron, per instructions from the support engineer.
Max size
Enter a maximum data limit to apply to the collection of binary trace files, in GB. You can use this to limit the overall size of the support bundle.
Text
Converts all bundled objects to a textual format. Any data that cannot be converted to text is not included in the bundle.
This setting is enabled automatically if Obfuscated is selected.
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Click Create and then click Yes to confirm.
The bundle file is then created. The status of the bundle creation process is displayed on the Bundles page.
When bundle creation is completed, you can upload to the bundle to VAST Data Support.
Aggregated bundles are not overwritten and therefore can be uploaded even after another bundle was created. Bundles that were not aggregated are overwritten by later bundles and therefore cannot be uploaded.
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In the Actions column, click the
button for the bundle and select Upload.The Upload bundle to S3 dialog appears.
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Click Upload.
The upload begins.
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While the upload is in process, you'll see the Activities icon at the top of the page. Once upload is complete, it will disappear. The upload task is logged in the Activities page, which you can open from the menu.
You can download a support bundle to your local machine. Aggregated bundles are not overwritten and therefore can be downloaded even after another bundle was created. Bundles that were not aggregated are overwritten by later bundles and therefore cannot be downloaded.
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In the Actions column, click the
button and select Download.The bundle file is downloaded to your machine.
When you delete a support bundle, the corresponding bundle files are deleted from the nodes, if they weren't already overwritten by a later bundle, and the bundle entry is removed from the displayed list.
Caution
Do not try to delete a support bundle before it is completely created. This will cause unexpected behavior.
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