From 3dd929eb92cdd99146eaea1f5712f2aae811354f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jay Faulkner Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 15:16:07 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Document how to output journal to console Having all logs from the device visible on console may be useful for deployers who do not enable login access to IPA ramdisks as a matter of policy. Change-Id: If9d29dd00a8c35fe679e1f54d1574eed0a79470c --- doc/source/admin/troubleshooting.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/source/admin/troubleshooting.rst b/doc/source/admin/troubleshooting.rst index de3ec0656..616ce9b98 100644 --- a/doc/source/admin/troubleshooting.rst +++ b/doc/source/admin/troubleshooting.rst @@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ Retrieving the IPA logs will differ depending on which base image was used. * Operating system that do use ``systemd`` (ie Fedora, CentOS, RHEL) - logs may be viewed with ``sudo journalctl -u ironic-python-agent`` + - if using a diskimage-builder ramdisk, it may be configured to output all + contents of the journal, including ironic-python-agent logs, by enabling + the `journal-to-console element `_. Manually restart IPA ====================