xsos : a tool to read sosreport in RHEL/CentOS | Linux Today

xsos : a tool to read sosreport in RHEL/CentOS

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Shrikant Lavhate
Jan 9, 2018

xsos tool is a tool coded to read sosreport on Linux systems. sosreport is a tool from RedHat which collects system information which helps vendors to troubleshoot issues. sosreport creates the tar ball which contains all the system information but you can not read it directly. For simplicity, Ryan Sawhill created a tool named xsos which will help you to read sosreport in much easier way in your terminal itself. In this article, we will walk you through how to read sosreport on Linux terminal.

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Shrikant Lavhate

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