[TriLUG] sysadmin data collection tool

[John Beimler]

begin  quotation from Donald Ball <balld at webslingerz.com> [on 010904 14:51]::

> an idle thought occured to me recently. when your linux system is acting
> strangely, wouldn't it be nice to have one command you can run to save a
> good subset of the current system state information for later perusal and
> comparison? is there such a beast? i'm thinking something like netstat +
> free + ps + vmstat + etc. or maybe just a tarball of /proc.
> 
RedHat has/had a tool that created a tar ball that did most of this that 
someone posted here at some point, hopefully they can chime in again..

regards

john