RHBA-2013:1465 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated rhevm-log-collector package that fixes several bugs is now available.

Description

The rhevm-log-collector utility allows users to easily collect log files
from all systems in their Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Each log collection overwrote the existing log-collector log file. This made

debugging issues difficult, especially when multiple attempts were executed.
Now, log messages are written into timestamped files by default, preventing the
overwrite of existing files. The default location of the logs has been changed
from /var/log/ovirt-engine to /var/log/ovirt-engine/ovirt-log-collector. In
addition, a log rotation was introduced to compress old logs. (BZ#1009116)

• The openssh-clients package was missing on a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Manager system installed using the minimal-installation option. As the
rhevm-log-collector utility has a dependency on the openssh-clients package, it
could not collect logs from hypervisors when openssh-clients was absent. This
update adds the dependency to the installation spec file, so openssh-clients is
installed together with the Manager, and the log-collector can gather hosts
sosreports. (BZ#1015757)

All Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager users should install this
update which includes this fix.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant
to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization 3.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1009116 - rhevm-log-collector - log file overwritten at each execution
• BZ - 1015757 - Missing openssh-clients package on minimal install of rhel, restricts rhevm-log-collector to gather the hypervisors sosreports

CVEs

(none)

References

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