Seemed a little embarrassing when I realized that ovs-bugtool has no usage
message on a customer call this morning.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
---
utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in b/utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in
index 75fcd0e..2ede359 100755
--- a/utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in
+++ b/utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
#
# Copyright (c) 2005, 2007 XenSource Ltd.
-# Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Nicira, Inc.
+# Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 Nicira, Inc.
#
# To add new entries to the bugtool, you need to:
@@ -383,6 +383,34 @@ def main(argv=None):
only_ovs_info = False
collect_all_info = True
+ if '--help' in sys.argv:
+ print """\
+%(argv0)s: create status report bundles to assist in problem diagnosis
+usage: %(argv0)s OPTIONS
+
+By default, %(argv0)s prompts for permission to collect each form of status
+information and produces a .tar.gz file as output.
+
+The following options are available.
+ --help display this help message, then exit
+ -s, --silent suppress most output to stdout
+
+Options for categories of data to collect:
+ --entries=CAP_A,CAP_B,... set categories of data to collect
+ --all collect all categories
+ --ovs collect only directly OVS-related info
+ --log-days=DAYS collect DAYS worth of old logs
+ -y, --yestoall suppress prompts to confirm collection
+ --capabilities print categories as XML on stdout, then exit
+
+Output options:
+ --output=FORMAT set output format to one of tar tar.bz2 tar.gz zip
+ --output-fd=FD send output to FD instead of to a file
+ --unlimited ignore default limits on sizes of data collected
+ --debug print ovs-bugtool debug info on stdout\
+""" % {'argv0': sys.argv[0]}
+ sys.exit(0)
+
# we need access to privileged files, exit if we are not running as root
if os.getuid() != 0:
print >>sys.stderr, "Error: ovs-bugtool must be run as root"
--
1.7.10.4
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