Abrt
ABRT is a tool that helps users to detect defects in applications and to create a bug report with all information needed by a maintainer to fix it. It uses plugin system to extend its functionality.
The main purpose of this plug-in is to send number of crashes that happened on a given machine back to the spacewalk server and gain attention of the sysadmin, who should investigate these crashes and/or configure ABRT reporting so these issues doesn't go unnoticed.
After installing
spacewalk-abrt package rhn-check will automatically start reporting
ABRT information back to the server.
Currently,
the number of crashes is shown only on
system detail page (systems/details/Overview.do)
under Application crashes header. If there are
no ABRT data available, it prompts the user for
installing spacewalk-abrt package.
Later, this feature can be extended to
- display data on summary (
YourRhn.do) page; - collect more information about crashes.
Following issues were identified recently:
- if the
spacewalk-abrtpackage is removed from the system, data on the server remain unchanged, showing inaccurate information; - time of the last crash should be present.
