PowerEdge: How to create a RAC Dump/Dumplog from a VRTX, M1000e or FX2

Logs note and capture information about how a device is running. Collecting logs to analyze, troubleshoot and debug any issues that may be encountered can highlight both the reasons for device behavior and the appropriate solution. A RAC dump is required for the analysis of faults and issues of M1000e or VRTX chassis or single modular server. The RAC dump collects the hardware log of the M1000e or VRTX, firmware levels, voltage, current values, and hardware configuration of the chassis.

In order to create the RAC Dump, you require PuTTY. PuTTY is an open source SSH and telnet client, developed for the Windows platform.

You can download PuTTY.

Once PuTTY has been downloaded and installed, please follow the steps below to create the dump log.
 

1. Open PuTTY and activate the logging.
    
   
    
2. Select Session, specify the host DNS name or IP address, and then click Open.
    
   
    
3. Enter the following commands one after the other:

   racadm racdump
   dumplogs
   racadm getversion -b
   racadm getversion -c 
   racadm getversion -l

   
    
4. Other supported commands can be found here:
   1. PowerEdge M1000e: CMC version 6.20 RACADM CLI Guide
   2. PowerEdge VRTX: CMC version 3.3 RACADM CLI Guide
   3. PowerEdge FX2: CMC version 2.20 RACADM CLI Guide
       
5. After running the commands as described, close the PuTTY window and navigate to the created text file (in the example: c:\cmclog.txt) The RacDump is saved here as a PuTTY session text file.