KDUMPCTL(8) System Manager's Manual KDUMPCTL(8)
NAME
kdumpctl - control interface for kdump
SYNOPSIS
kdumpctl COMMAND
DESCRIPTION
kdumpctl is used to check or control the kdump service. In most cases,
you should use systemctl to start / stop / enable kdump service
instead. However, kdumpctl provides more details for debug and a helper
to setup ssh key authentication.
COMMANDS
start Start the service.
stop Stop the service.
status Prints the current status of kdump service. It returns non-zero
value if kdump is not operational.
restart
Is equal to start; stop
reload reload crash kernel image and initramfs without triggering a
rebuild.
rebuild
rebuild the crash kernel initramfs.
propagate
Helps to setup key authentication for ssh storage since it's
impossible to use password authentication during kdump.
showmem
Prints the size of reserved memory for crash kernel in
megabytes.
estimate
Estimate a suitable crashkernel value for current machine. This
is a best-effort estimate. It will print a recommanded crashker-
nel value based on current kdump setup, and list some details of
memory usage.
SEE ALSO
kdump.conf(5), mkdumprd(8)
kexec-tools 2015-07-13 KDUMPCTL(8)