KDUMPCTL

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
COMMANDS
SEE ALSO

NAME

kdumpctl − control interface for kdump

SYNOPSIS

kdumpctl COMMAND

DESCRIPTION

kdumpctl is used to check or control the kdump service. In most cases, you should use systemctl to start / stop / enable kdump service instead. However, kdumpctl provides more details for debug and a helper to setup ssh key authentication.

COMMANDS

	start		Start the service.
	stop		Stop the service.
	status		Prints the current status of kdump service. It returns non-zero value if kdump is not operational.

restart

Is equal to start; stop

propagate

Helps to setup key authentication for ssh storage since it’s impossible to use password authentication during kdump.

showmem

Prints the size of reserved memory for crash kernel in megabytes.