[deployment-guide/comm-rel: 192/727] Described the Target Settings tab.

Jaromir Hradilek jhradile at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 19 12:40:28 UTC 2010


commit 10e81e5f5859ac4a1bf07ed4611b64a7711b653e
Author: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile at redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jul 28 18:59:28 2010 +0200

    Described the Target Settings tab.

 en-US/The_kdump_Crash_Recovery_Service.xml |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/en-US/The_kdump_Crash_Recovery_Service.xml b/en-US/The_kdump_Crash_Recovery_Service.xml
index 512e0fa..1be2713 100644
--- a/en-US/The_kdump_Crash_Recovery_Service.xml
+++ b/en-US/The_kdump_Crash_Recovery_Service.xml
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@
       </section>
       <section id="s2-kdump-configuration-gui-target">
         <title>The <guilabel>Target Settings</guilabel> Tab</title>
+        <para>
+          The <guilabel>Target Settings</guilabel> tab enables you to specify the target location for the <filename>vmcore</filename> dump. It can be either stored as a file in the local file system, written directly to a device, or sent over a network using the NFS (Network File System) or SSH (Secure Shell; see <xref linkend="ch-OpenSSH" /> for more information on how to configure the SSH server) protocol.
+        </para>
         <figure id="fig-kdump-kernel_dump_configuration-target_settings">
           <title><guilabel>Target Settings</guilabel></title>
           <mediaobject>
@@ -72,6 +75,15 @@
             </textobject>
           </mediaobject>
         </figure>
+        <para>
+          To save the dump to the local file system, select the <guilabel>Local filesystem</guilabel> radio button. Optionally, you can customize the settings by choosing a different partition from the <guilabel>Partition</guilabel>, and a target directory from the <guilabel>Path</guilabel> pulldown lists.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          To write the dump directly to a device, select the <guilabel>Raw device</guilabel> radio button, and choose the desired target device from the pulldown list next to it.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          To store the dump to a remote machine, select the <guilabel>Network</guilabel> radio button. To use the NFS protocol, select the <guilabel>NFS</guilabel> radio button, and fill the <guilabel>Server name</guilabel> and <guilabel>Path to directory</guilabel> fields. To use the SSH protocol, select the <guilabel>SSH</guilabel> radio button, and fill the <guilabel>Server name</guilabel>, <guilabel>Path to directory</guilabel>, and <guilabel>User name</guilabel> fields with the remote server address, target directory, and a valid remote user name respectively.
+        </para>
       </section>
       <section id="s2-kdump-configuration-gui-filtering">
         <title>The <guilabel>Filtering Settings</guilabel> Tab</title>


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