cleardumps

The cleardumps command cleans the various dump directories on a specified node.

Syntax


>>- svctask -- --cleardumps-- ---------------------------------->

>-- -prefix -- directory_or_file_filter -- --+-------------+---><
                                             +- node_id ---+   
                                             '- node_name -'

Parameters

-prefix directory_or_file_filter

(Required) Specifies the directory, files, or both to be cleaned. If a directory is specified, with no file filter, all relevant dump or log files in that directory are cleaned. You can use the following directory arguments (filters):

/dumps (cleans all files in all subdirectories)
/dumps/cimom
/dumps/configs
/dumps/elogs
/dumps/feature
/dumps/iostats
/dumps/iotrace
/dumps/mdisk
/home/admin/upgrade

In addition to the directory, you can specify a filter file. For example, if you specify /dumps/elogs/*.txt, all files in the /dumps/elogs directory that end in .txt are cleaned.

Note: The following rules apply to the use of wildcards with the SAN Volume Controller CLI:

The wildcard character is an asterisk (*).
The command can contain a maximum of one wildcard.
With a wildcard, you must use double quotation marks (" ") around the filter entry, such as in the following entry:
```
>svctask cleardumps -prefix "/dumps/elogs/*.txt"
```

node_id | node_name

(Optional) Specifies the node to be cleaned. The variable that follows the parameter is either:

The node name, that is, the label that you assigned when you added the node to the cluster
The node ID that is assigned to the node (not the worldwide node name).

Description

This command deletes all the files that match the directory/file_filter argument on the specified node. If no node is specified, the configuration node is cleaned.

You can clean all the dumps directories by specifying /dumps as the directory variable.

You can clean all the files in a single directory by specifying one of the directory variables.

You can list the contents of these directories on the given node by using the svcinfo lsxxxxdumps commands.

You can use this command to clean specific files in a given directory by specifying a directory or file name. You can use the wildcard character as part of the file name.

Note: To preserve the configuration and trace files, any files that match the following wildcard patterns are not cleaned:

*svc.config*
*.trc
*.trc.old

An invocation example

svctask cleardumps -prefix /dumps/configs

The resulting output

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