fault detection

[gmkeegan at yahoo.com (Gordon Keegan)]

It won't help diagnose this crash, but if it's
feasible, I would setup your box with serial console
support, and a second machine with a serial connection
to your crashed server to capture console output. 
Depending on the budget, this can be a low-end intel,
or one of the commercial remote console solutions.  In
any case, there's a better-than-average chance that
any messages associated with a crash appear on the
console and would be captured in a log file on the 2nd
box.

Just 2 cents
Gordon Keegan

--- FRamsay at castelhq.com wrote:
> Does anyone know of any tools to help figure out why
> a box rebooted?  One
> of our client boxes rebooted
> over the weekend for no apparent reason.  The client
> claimed there was no
> power outage, and a quick look
> over the logs verifies the UPS didn't shut the
> computer down.  Also I
> didn't see a shutdown or reboot request
> in /var/log/messages.  So what tools do people use
> to figure out why a
> Linux system crashed?
> 
> the system is running Redhat 7.2  kernel 2.4.9-13
> 
>                -fjr
> 
> 
> Frank Ramsay
> Systems Programmer
> Castel, Inc
> 14 Summer St, 3rd Floor
> Malden, MA 02148
> (781) 324-0140 (voice)
> (781) 324-0277 (fax)
> Emal: framsay at castel.com
> 
> 
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