Support tools

Vertica suggests that the following tools are installed so support can assist in troubleshooting your system if any issues arise:

• pstack (or gstack) package. Identified by issue S0040 when not installed.

  • On Red Hat 7 and CentOS 7 systems, the pstack package is installed as part of the gdb package.

• mcelog package. Identified by issue S0041 when not installed.

• sysstat package. Identified by issue S0045 when not installed.

Red hat 6 and CentOS 6 systems

To install the required tools on Red Hat 6 and CentOS 6 systems, run the following commands as sudo or root:

# yum install pstack
# yum install mcelog
# yum install sysstat

Red hat 7 and CentOS 7 systems

To install the required tools on Red Hat 7/CentOS 7 systems, run the following commands as sudo or root:

# yum install gdb
# yum install mcelog
# yum install sysstat

Ubuntu and debian systems

To install the required tools on Ubuntu and Debian systems, run the following commands as sudo or root:

$ apt-get install pstack
$ apt-get install mcelog
$ apt-get install sysstat

SuSE systems

To install the required tools on SuSE systems, run the following commands as sudo or root.

# zypper install sysstat
# zypper install mcelog

There is no individual SuSE package for pstack/gstack. However, the gdb package contains gstack, so you could optionally install gdb instead, or build pstack/gstack from source. To install the gdb package:

# zypper install gdb