Support tools

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

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.
mcelog package. Identified by issue S0041 when not installed.
sysstat package. Identified by issue S0045 when not installed.

Red Hat and CentOS systems

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

# dnf install gdb
# dnf install mcelog
# dnf 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

Important

For Ubuntu versions 18.04 and higher, run apt-get install rasdaemon instead of apt-get install mcelog.

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