Support Tools

Want to make use of some Red Hat support tools such like sosreport and sos-collector to analyze the host

system ? You can use a Red Hat Enterprise Linux support tools container image for this purpose - the only

requirement is to have a Red Hat account. If you don't have one, you can create an account for free - visit :

Create a Red Hat Login

 

Install the Red Hat container tools :

$ sudo dnf install buildah podman skopeo

Now you sign in to registry.redhat.io :

$ sudo podman login registry.redhat.io

Pull the RHEL 8 Support Tools image :

$ sudo podman pull registry.redhat.io/rhel8/support-tools

Create the support-toolbox container :

$ sudo podman run --name support-tools --privileged --ipc=host --net=host --pid=host -it -e HOST=/host -e IMAGE=registry.redhat.io/rhel8/support-tools -e NAME=toolbox -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime -v /etc/machine-id:/etc/machine-id -v /run:/run -v /var/log:/var/log -v /:/host registry.redhat.io/rhel8/support-tools

List tool options with -h (examples) :

# sosreport -h
# sos-collector -h

Run the tools with selected options :

# sosreport -<option(s)>
# sos-collector -<option(s)>

Once finished, to exit the container :

# exit

To use the container again, just run :

$ sudo podman start --attach support-tools