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6 sos help - get detailed help information on sos commands and components
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13 sos help is used to retrieve more detailed information on the various
14 SoS commands and components than is directly available in either other
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17 This information could for example be investigating a specific plugin
18 to learn more about its purpose, use case, collections, available
19 plugin options, edge cases, and more.
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21 Most aspects of SoS' operation can be investigated this way - the top
22 level functions such as report, clean, and collect, as well as con‐
23 structs that allow those functions to work; e.g. transports within sos
24 collect that define how that function connects to remote nodes.
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30 The section or topic to retrieve detailed help information for. TOPIC
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32 form of command.component.entity, with component and entity be‐
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35 Top-level command help sections will often direct users to component
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38 Some of the more useful or interesting sections are listed below:
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42 report The sos report command
43 report.plugins Information on what report plugins are
44 report.plugins.$plugin Information on a specific plugin
45 clean or mask The sos clean|mask command
46 collect The sos collect command
47 collect.clusters How collect enumerates nodes in a cluster
48 policies How SoS behaves on different distribu‐
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