grab_core

grab_core grabs a core file, the binary that dropped it, and any shared libraries that the binary depends on and bundles it all up in a tar file.

The tar file that grab_core produces contains enough information for Support to run dbx and analyze the core file.

A customer will typically compress the resulting tar file and ftp it to Support for analysis.

We currently have a version of grab_core for use with Solaris 2.x only, not for any other OS.

For similarly packaging up core files on the AIX platform, use the AIX-specific script senddata.