Recap:
Homepage: https://github.com/rackerlabs/recap/
recap is a reporting script that generates reports of various information about the server.
Original authors at Rackspace (http://www.rackspace.com): -Jacob Walcik -Carl Thompson
Past contributors at Rackspace: -David King -Hans duPlooy -All other should be defined in CHANGELOG
The cron file (/etc/cron.d/recap) is used to determine the execution time of recap. By default the cron execution of the program is not enabled.
The following variables are defined with defaults inside the script but can be overwritten if these variables are defined in /etc/recap
DATE=date +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S
ROTATE="7"
DATE is the format of the date header at the top of the reports/email
ROTATE is the number of files to maintain for rotation purposes
Additional optional variables are as follows:
MAILTO
ie: MAILTO="username@domain.com"
USEPS do you want to generate the ps.log? (no/yes) default yes
USERESOURCES do you want to generate the resources.log? (no/yes) default yes
USESAR do you want to generate sar reports? (no/yes) default no
USESARR do you want to generate sar -r reports? (no/yes) default no
USESARQ do you want to generate sar -q reports? (no/yes) default no
USEFULLSTATUS do you want to generate "service httpd fullstatus" reports? (no/yes) default no
See the recap man pages for additional optional reports. Some reports depend on parent reports to generate the file they will write their output to.
For instance, the USESAR reports above all rely on having USERESOURCES enabled.
The script will never need to be modified for these variables, they can all be defined in /etc/recap
If you want a backup of the last file created before a reboot uncomment the @reboot line in the crontab file /etc/cron.d/recap
Uncomment the lines to enable the backup