[Xorp-users] Appeal for suggestions re: automated support dump tool

[Bruce Simpson]

More often than not, technical questions get asked here about XORP 
operation or use, which would probably benefit from a general debugging 
information tool -- as a lot of the information which gets asked for, 
when problems are raised, is repetitive and common to all bug reports.

Rather than request this information every time, which makes it more 
difficult to give support, it might be better if we could provide 
functionality in an automated way. What we'd really appreciate from 
folks is suggestions for such a tool.

The basics would be: OS version, OS network interface config, PCI info, 
followed of course by the XORP config dumps for each routing process.

Such a tool could get rolled into the Router Manager. However, such a 
tool is probably best written in a modern, common scripting language. 
Python is particularly good for tasks lie this.

Please share your suggestions and feedback.

thanks,
BMS