Saturday, May 24, 2008

IBM DSA get to the command line

IBM Dynamic System Analysis (IBM page) is just a Linux boot CD like most of their other utilities.

They don't seem to want to give you the idea you can transfer the diagnostic log straight over the network. The log suggest dhcp is "disabled" yet one of the options from the trapped menu is to "ftp" the file to IBM support.

ctrl-c, break, ctrl-d, etc have all been trapped.

One thing they forgot to do, prevent shelling out from the viewer - if you type "view" to view the log, you can type ":!sh" to spawn a shell and do whatever you want. ifconfig shows that you've already picked up a DHCP address and you're on the network.

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