Recommended Workflow For Trace Files; Copying Tracefiles Off The Box - Cisco Catalyst 9500 Manual

Conditional Debug and Radioactive Tracing

Recommended Workflow for Trace files

The Recommended Workflow for Trace files is listed below:
1. To request the tracelogs for a specific time period.
EXAMPLE 1 day.
Use the command:
Device#request platform software trace archive last 1 day
2. The system generates a tar ball (.gz file) of the tracelogs in the location /flash:
3. Copy the file off the switch. By copying the file, the tracelogs can be used to work offline. For more
details on copying files, see section below.
4. Delete the tracelog file (.gz) file from /flash: location. This will ensure enough space on the switch for
other operations.

Copying tracefiles off the box

An example of the tracefile is shown below:
Device# dir crashinfo:/tracelogs
Directory of crashinfo:/tracelogs/
50664 -rwx 760 Sep 22 2015 11:12:21 +00:00 plogd_F0-0.bin_0.gz
50603 -rwx 991 Sep 22 2015 11:12:08 +00:00 fed_pmanlog_F0-0.bin_0.9558.20150922111208.gz
50610 -rw- 11 Nov 2 2015 00:15:59 +00:00 timestamp
50611 -rwx 1443 Sep 22 2015 11:11:31 +00:00
auto_upgrade_client_sh_pmanlog_R0-.bin_0.3817.20150922111130.gz
50669 -rwx 589 Sep 30 2015 03:59:04 +00:00 cfgwr-8021_R0-0.bin_0.gz
50612 -rwx 1136 Sep 22 2015 11:11:46 +00:00 reflector_803_R0-0.bin_0.1312.20150922111116.gz
50794 -rwx 4239 Nov 2 2015 00:04:32 +00:00 IOSRP_R0-0.bin_0.14239.20151101234827.gz
50615 -rwx 131072 Nov 2 2015 00:19:59 +00:00 linux_iosd_image_pmanlog_R0-0.bin_0
--More—
The trace files can be copied using one of the various options shown below:
Device# copy crashinfo:/tracelogs ?
crashinfo: Copy to crashinfo: file system
flash: Copy to flash: file system
ftp: Copy to ftp: file system
http: Copy to http: file system
https: Copy to https: file system
null: Copy to null: file system
nvram: Copy to nvram: file system
rcp: Copy to rcp: file system
running-config Update (merge with) current system configuration
scp: Copy to scp: file system
startup-config Copy to startup configuration
syslog: Copy to syslog: file system
system: Copy to system: file system
tftp: Copy to tftp: file system
tmpsys: Copy to tmpsys: file system
The general syntax for copying onto a TFTP server is as follows:
System Management Configuration Guide, Cisco IOS XE Amsterdam 17.2.x (Catalyst 9500 Switches)
Recommended Workflow for Trace files
307