On an Open Enterprise Server 2015 SP1 there are times where cifs service would stop responding and support would require the supportconfig logs and some core dump files. Core dump files is really required to troubleshoot further the issue with cifs protocol. Initially we wouldn't know where to locate the core dump files and this was the question that was raised to OES Support. As provided by OES Support that the core dump file location can be located using the following command. "sysctl -A | grep core_pattern" (this command will provide the actual path to the core dump file) The output of that command will provide something like this: "kernel.core_patten = |/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %P %u %g %s %t %c %e" Will dig some more information on this topic. As of now the important thing is we have located the core dump file location that we can provide to OES Support for further investigation.
According to Wikipedia Open Enterprise Server ( OES ) is a server operating system published by Novell in March 2005 to succeed their NetWare product. Unlike NetWare, Novell OES is a Linux distribution —specifically, one based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server . The first two major releases of Open Enterprise Server could run either with a Linux kernel (with a NetWare compatibility layer ) or Novell's NetWare kernel (with a Linux compatibility layer).Novell discontinued the NetWare kernel prior to the release of OES 11. On 15 September 2014 Micro Focus announced the acquisition of the Attachmate Group in which Novell is a part of. So this product is now known as Micro Focus Open Enterprise Server . This blog will serve as a documentation on a learning journey on using Open Enterprise Server .