Brocade Communications Systems 804 manual SupportSave collection sources

5 supportSave

The default location to where supportSave output is saved is under the IP address of the host from which it was collected, relative to the HCM installation directory, as follows:

USER HOME\HCM\data\10.32.116.1\supportsave For example: C:\Users\Administrator\HCM\data\10.32.116.1\supportsave

supportSave collection sources

Table 14 lists the sources from which you can gather supportSave information.

TABLE 14	supportSave collection sources
Source of supportSave information		supportSave information collected
BFA based supportSave1		Driver-related logs and config files
Browser-based supportSave		Driver-related logs and config files
		Agent log/config files
HCM-based supportsave		Agent log and config files
		HCM GUI log and config files

1bcu debug does not support the bcu debug --supportsave command. See “supportSave collection using a command prompt” on page 63 for more information.

Automatic statistics collection

The port statistics log file is collected as part of the supportSave activity.

Port statistics collection occurs every eight hours and will be logged in to a rolling file under the /log/ directory. There are a maximum of five backup files and each file has a 100 KB size limit. A new backup file overwrites the oldest file.

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