ASR9k VMs: disks and files

[simone.c]

Dear all,

I experienced a crash which affected one of the RSPs of our ASR9906. Following the crash, a crash file was created which is located within the disk space of the System Admin VM, in the folder cisco_support/.

My question is: how do I take out this crash file (which I would like to send to Cisco)? From my network management station I'm not able to reach the disk space of the System Admin VM, I seem to reach only the XR VM disk space. I tried with SCP.

Is there a way to transfer a file from one virtual disk to the other virtual disk (i.e. from the System Admin VM to the XR VM)?

Many thanks!

Simone

[tkarnani · Accepted solution]

we will need to copy from the admin vm to the xr vm

example:

sysadmin-vm:0_RSP0# copy harddisk:/preserved_shutdown_logs_2020-Apr-02.071533.UTC_0_RSP1.tgz location 0/RSP0 harddisk: location 0/RSP0/CPU0/VM1
Mon May  11 14:31:42.429 UTC+00:00
Copying harddisk:/preserved_shutdown_logs_2020-Apr-02.071533.UTC_0_RSP1.tgz to harddisk:
File copied successfully
sysadmin-vm:0_RSP0#

Once completed we should see it under harddisk: while on the XR VM

Thanks

[simone.c]

hi tkarnani!

Thanks for the advice. I managed to move the file to the directory hardisk: of the XR VM. Then I did not manage to take it out with SCP until I moved it to disk0:

Is it possible that with SCP from my NMS I can reach only the directory disk0: of the XR VM?

Simone

[tkarnani]

I tried in our lab.

RP/0/RSP1/CPU0:F340.13.18-ASR-9906-C#dir harddisk: | inc rpm
Tue May 12 15:37:13.667 CEST
     36 -rw-r--r--. 1    3615640 Mar 16 16:49 asr9k-iosxr-fwding-64-2.0.0.3-r662.CSCvt42295.x86_64.rpm
     38 -rw-r--r--. 1    3617580 Mar 17 23:55 asr9k-iosxr-fwding-64-2.0.0.5-r662.CSCvt42295.x86_64.rpm
     37 -rw-r--r--. 1    3617645 Mar 16 23:59 asr9k-iosxr-fwding-64-2.0.0.4-r662.CSCvt42295.x86_64.rpm
RP/0/RSP1/CPU0:F340.13.18-ASR-9906-C#

-bash-4.2$ scp tkarnani@172.18.120.160:/harddisk:/asr9k-iosxr-fwding-64-2.0.0.3-r662.CSCvt42295.x86_64.rpm
usage: scp [-12346BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file]
           [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program]
           [[user@]host1:]file1 ... [[user@]host2:]file2
-bash-4.2$ scp tkarnani@172.18.120.160:/harddisk:/asr9k-iosxr-fwding-64-2.0.0.3-r662.CSCvt42295.x86_64.rpm .
The authenticity of host '172.18.120.160 (172.18.120.160)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is SHA256:rw1Tw5X90Rhl3GmSBUUNxsPQhTQ5S3edXijmn1+wFbc.
RSA key fingerprint is MD5:97:13:a8:16:e0:c9:aa:0e:83:60:a1:65:ae:95:ff:ee.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '172.18.120.160' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!                                                                !!
!!                  - CALO RTP XR SHARED LAB -                    !!
!!  RULES:                                                        !!
!!                                                                !!
!!  1. DO NOT add/remove/edit AAA, username, usergroup config.    !!
!!                                                                !!
!!  2. DO NOT alter the calo-mgmt vrf configs                     !!
!!                                                                !!
!!  3. DO NOT change configs that are not relevant to your case.  !!
!!                                                                !!
!!  4. DO NOT commit replace the box (for any reason).            !!
!!                                                                !!
!!                                                                !!
!!  *ALL CONFIGURATION CHANGES ARE LOGGED. FAILURE TO FOLLOW      !!
!!   THE RULES WILL RESULT IN BEING BANNED FROM THE SHARED LAB*   !!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Password:
asr9k-iosxr-fwding-64-2.0.0.3-r662.CSCvt42295 100% 3531KB   8.2MB/s   00:00
Connection to 172.18.120.160 closed by remote host.
-bash-4.2$ ls  | grep CSCvt42295
asr9k-iosxr-fwding-64-2.0.0.3-r662.CSCvt42295.x86_64.rpm
asr9k-iosxr-fwding-64-3.0.0.4-r663.CSCvt42295.x86_64.rpm
-bash-4.2$

i was able to copy from harddisk:

[simone.c]

Great! I had a syntax problem, managed to make it work.

Thanks a lot!

Simone