triggerdrivedump

Use the triggerdrivedump command to collect support data from a disk drive. This data can help you understand problems with the drive and does not contain any data that applications write to the drive.

Syntax

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagram triggerdrivedump drive_id

Parameters

drive_id
(Required) The ID of the drive to dump.

Description

Use this command to collect internal log data from a drive and store the information in a file in the /dumps/drive directory. This directory is on one of the nodes connected to the drive. The system limits the number of drive dump files in the directory to 24 per node.

An invocation example

triggerdrivedump 2

The resulting output:

Dump file for drive [2] created
Note: The system chooses the node on which to run the statesave.