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Generating crash dump reports with PowerShell
Posted: May 24, 2006 Filed under: SBS Leave a comment »I’ve been using the new Windows scripting language PowerShell. I’ve also been having a lot of problems with my workstation; ever since I found my machine overheating–due to old, slow fans, it’s never been the same since, averaging a crash a day. Is it just the hardware? Is it a bad driver? Did I just not seat the cards correctly last time I opened it?
I use Microsoft’s Debugging Tools For Windows to diagnose crashes for SATV’s servers and other machines and I was getting tired of going to WinDbg and putting in the same commands every time I needed to look at a crash dump.
Here’s my first PowerShell script, a simple wrapper for KD, the command line debugger.
# crashreport.ps1
# Create debug analysis logs using KD
# D. Moisan 5/24/2006
#
# Usage: crashreport <dumpfile>
#
# Input: <dumpfile> can be a full memory dump, kernel dump or minidump
#
# Output: Log file to standard output
#
# Note: Debugging Tools for Windows must be installed
# in its default directory (Program Files\Debugging Tools For Windows)
#
if ($Args.Count -eq 0) {
"Usage: crashreport <dumpfile>"
exit }
# Create debug analysis logs using KD
# D. Moisan 5/24/2006
#
# Usage: crashreport <dumpfile>
#
# Input: <dumpfile> can be a full memory dump, kernel dump or minidump
#
# Output: Log file to standard output
#
# Note: Debugging Tools for Windows must be installed
# in its default directory (Program Files\Debugging Tools For Windows)
#
if ($Args.Count -eq 0) {
"Usage: crashreport <dumpfile>"
exit }
set-alias kd $Env:ProgramFiles"\Debugging Tools For Windows\kd.exe"
# Debug commands are specified here. See the Debugging Tools For
# Windows for more details
#
# Commands are: !analyze -v Verbose analysis of the crash
# kv Stacktrace
# !process Current process and thread at crash
# lmf List loaded modules and file paths
# q quit KD (or else KD will keep running)
#
# Windows for more details
#
# Commands are: !analyze -v Verbose analysis of the crash
# kv Stacktrace
# !process Current process and thread at crash
# lmf List loaded modules and file paths
# q quit KD (or else KD will keep running)
#
$debugcommands = "`"!analyze -v; kv; !process; lmf; q`""
"Using debug commands: " + $debugcommands
"Generating debug output"
$crashdumpfile = $Args[0]
"Using crash dump file: " + $crashdumpfile
# Execute kd with commands
kd -c $debugcommands -noshell -z $Args[0]
"Debug Output to log file: " + $debugoutputfile
"Done!"
exit
"Done!"
exit
Take care,
Dave
