Download or Remove Generated Reports

Using the Diagnostic report page in the web console, Cockpit administrators can download and extract generated report data or remove a generated report as needed.

What Do You Need?

The Cockpit web console must be installed and accessible.
For details, see these topics: Install and Enable Cockpit and Log in to the Cockpit Web Console.
The cockpit-sosreport package is installed. Typically, this package is installed by default.
For package installation details, see Install and Manage Add-on Applications.
Administrator privileges.

Steps

Using the Cockpit web console, follow these steps to download or remove a Cockpit generated diagnostic report.

In the Cockpit navigation pane, click Diagnostic reports.
The Systems diagnostics page appears.
In the Reports panel on the System diagnostics page, perform any of the following:
- Download the report tar file and optionally extract content:
  1. Click Download. A dialog appears indicating the report is being downloaded.
  2. Click the download dialog (or the browser window download arrow) to view the report's downloaded location.
    By default, the generated report tar file is downloaded to the Cockpit user /home/downloads directory.
  3. Optionally, extract the generated tar file to the local directory.
    Upon extracting the tar file, the extracted report data appears across multiple subdirectories, for example: sos_commands, sos_logs, and sos_reports
- Remove a generated report:
  1. Click the actions [⋮] menu, which appears next to the report name you want to delete, and then select Delete.
    A prompt appears confirming to you want to permanently delete the report.
  2. Click Delete to confirm the deletion process.