Download or Remove Generated Reports
Using the Diagnostic report page in the web console, Cockpit administrators can download and extract generated report data or remove a generated report as needed.
What Do You Need?
- The Cockpit web console must be installed and accessible.
For details, see these topics: Install and Enable Cockpit and Log in to the Cockpit Web Console.
- The
cockpit-sosreport
package is installed. Typically, this package is installed by default.For package installation details, see Install and Manage Add-on Applications.
- Administrator privileges.
Steps
Using the Cockpit web console, follow these steps to download or remove a Cockpit generated diagnostic report.
- In the Cockpit navigation pane, click Diagnostic reports.
The Systems diagnostics page appears.
- In the Reports panel on the System
diagnostics page, perform any of the following:
- Download the report tar file and optionally extract content:
- Click Download. A dialog appears indicating the report is being downloaded.
- Click the download dialog (or the browser window download arrow) to view the
report's downloaded location.
By default, the generated report tar file is downloaded to the Cockpit user
/home/downloads
directory. - Optionally, extract the generated tar file to the local directory.
Upon extracting the tar file, the extracted report data appears across multiple subdirectories, for example:
sos_commands,
sos_logs
, andsos_reports
- Remove a generated report:
- Click the actions [⋮] menu, which appears next to the
report name you want to delete, and then select Delete.
A prompt appears confirming to you want to permanently delete the report.
- Click Delete to confirm the deletion process.
- Click the actions [⋮] menu, which appears next to the
report name you want to delete, and then select Delete.
- Download the report tar file and optionally extract content: