Capturing system crash information

It is very important to find out why your system crashed. After all, a system panic means that somewhere something in the system went wrong. There are usually only three ways you can collect system panic or crash information.

First, sometimes you will find information in the /var/adm/messages* log files. Second, if you were sitting at the console at the time of the crash, you can try to record as much of the data as you can on paper. However, to capture the best, most complete system crash data, you have to use the savecore program, which we will cover shortly.