ovs-bugtool(8) — Linux manual page

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ovs-bugtool(8)             Open vSwitch Manual             ovs-bugtool(8)

NAME top

       ovs-bugtool - Open vSwitch bug reporting utility

SYNOPSIS top

       ovs-bugtool

DESCRIPTION top

       Generates a debug bundle with useful information about Open
       vSwitch on this system and places it in /var/log/ovs-bugtool.

COLLECTION OPTIONS top

       These options influence what categories of data ovs-bugtool
       collects.

       --entries=list
              Collect the capabilities specified in the comma-separated
              list.

       --all  Collect all available capabilities.

       --ovs  In addition to Open vSwitch configuration and status,
              ovs-bugtool can collect a variety of relevant system
              information.  This option limits collection to Open
              vSwitch-specific categories.

       --log-days=days
              Include the logs with last modification time in the
              previous days days in the debug bundle. The number of log
              files included has a big impact on the eventual bundle
              size. The default value is 20 days.

       -y
       --yestoall
              Answer yes to all prompts.

       --capabilities
              Writes the categories that ovs-bugtool can collect on
              stdout in XML, then exits.

OUTPUT OPTIONS top

       These options influence the format and destination of ovs-bugtool
       output.

       --output=filetype
              Generates a debug bundle with the specified file type.
              Options include tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, and zip.

       --outfile=file
              Write output to file.  Mutually exclusive with --outfd.

       --outfd=fd
              Write output to file descriptor fd.  This option must be
              used with --output=tar.

       --unlimited
              Do not exclude files which are too large. Also skip
              checking free disk space.  By default up to 90 percent of
              the free disk space can be used.

       --debug
              Print verbose debugging output.

OTHER OPTIONS top

       -s
       --silent
              Suppress most output to stdout.

       --help Print a summary of ovs-bugtool usage to stdout, then exit.

EXAMPLES top

       Here's a collection of some commonly useful options:

       ovs-bugtool -y -s --output=tar.gz --outfile=/var/log/bugtool-
       report.tgz

BUGS top

       ovs-bugtool makes many assumptions about file locations and the
       availability of system utilities.  It has been tested on Debian
       and Red Hat and derived distributions.  On other distributions it
       is likely to be less useful.

COLOPHON top

       This page is part of the Open vSwitch (a distributed virtual
       multilayer switch) project.  Information about the project can be
       found at ⟨http://openvswitch.org/⟩.  If you have a bug report for
       this manual page, send it to [email protected].  This page was
       obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs.git⟩ on 2025-08-11.  (At that
       time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
       repository was 2025-07-31.)  If you discover any rendering
       problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
       a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
       corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
       (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
       [email protected]

Open vSwitch                      3.2.90                   ovs-bugtool(8)