Supportability and Serviceability (SoS) Utility

The SoS utility is a command-line tool that you can use to run health checks, collect logs for

VMware Cloud Foundation

components, and so on.

To run the SoS utility, SSH in to the

SDDC Manager appliance

using the

vcf

user account. For basic operations, enter the following command:

sudo /opt/vmware/sddc-support/sos --option-1 --option-2 --option-3 ... --option-n

To list the available command options, use the

--help

long option or the

-h

short option.

sudo /opt/vmware/sddc-support/sos --help
sudo /opt/vmware/sddc-support/sos -h

You can specify options in the conventional GNU/POSIX syntax, using

for the long option and

for the short option.

For privileged operations, enter

to switch to the root user, and navigate to the

/opt/vmware/sddc-support

directory and type

./sos

followed by the options required for your desired operation.

VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5