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Bug 464240 - [LTC 6.0 FEAT] 201056:Kdump Configuration: Improve system-config-kdump utility options
Summary: [LTC 6.0 FEAT] 201056:Kdump Configuration: Improve system-config-kdump utilit...
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: system-config-kdump
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: All
medium
medium
Target Milestone: alpha
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Assignee: David Lehman
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Depends On: 460544
Blocks: 356741
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Reported: 2008-09-26 20:10 UTC by IBM Bug Proxy
Modified: 2009-10-26 16:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-03-25 16:35:23 UTC
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Description IBM Bug Proxy 2008-09-26 20:10:56 UTC 
=Comment: #0=================================================
Emily J. Ratliff <emilyr.com> - 2008-09-26 15:53 EDT
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id:	[201056]
a. Name of Feature:	Kdump Configuration: Improve system-config-kdump utility options
b. Feature Description
Kdump is a RAS feature introduced in RHEL5. system-config-kdump is the configuration utility which
helps a user to set up kdump during installation. This feature request is regarding improving the
system-config-kdump utility to help user.

Additional Comments:	RHEL5.x requests being tracked through
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253386

IBM is planning to provide a patch for this functionality.

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor:	Linux Systems Tech
Architectures:
x86
x86_64
ppc64

Arch Specificity: Purely Common Code
Delivery Mechanism: Patch attached to this bugzilla
Category:	RAS
Request Type:	IBM Deliverable
d. Upstream Acceptance:	No Code Required
Sponsor Priority	1
f. Severity: High
IBM Confidential:	no
Code Contribution:	no

3. Business Case
- Above requested feature will make kdump configuration task simple and more intuitive.
 
 - It is part of Fit-n-Finish initiative to make kdump field deployment smoother.
 
 - Allows user to use custom kernel/initrd which is suitable for customer env. For example,
currently one can not save dump to a multi-path IO device. But if a user is smart enough to build a
custom initrd and use that initrd for saving dump, he can save the dump to multi path IO device too.

Benefits
- User will be able to configure kdump more easily.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat: 
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Sarah Wright, sarahw.com, 503-578-5145

Technical contact(s):
Maneesh Soni, smaneesh.com
Mark Hamzy, hamzy.com

IBM Manager:
Jeffrey Heroux, heroux.com
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2008-10-03 20:31:09 UTC 
... Patch does not appear to be attached.
Comment 2 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-03-03 12:40:30 UTC 
We are unable to complete this work in time for RHEL 6,  Defering this to RHEL 6.1
Comment 3 John Jarvis 2009-03-25 16:36:10 UTC 
Closing as DEFERRED based on comment 2.
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