Thanks for the answers, Megha!

I know have a better background to provide feedbacks and suggestions.

1) I'd say to keep compressing the sosreport + dbginfo into one tar.gz file
    Otherwise we would need to update the UI and I don't think it is a good idea right now.

2) For the implementation, I'd suggest to keep the function very well self contained, ie, the sosreport function will only deal with sosreport, dbginfo will only deal with that command and so.

So update get_system_report_tool() to use dbginfo. As the final result would be dbginfo + sosreport

    @staticmethod                                                              
    def get_system_report_tool():                                              
        # Please add new possible debug report command here                    
        # and implement the report generating function                         
        # based on the new report command                                      
        report_tools = ({'cmd': '/usr/sbin/dbginfo.sh --help', 'fn': DebugReportsModel.dbginfo_generate},
                        {'cmd': 'sosreport --help', 'fn': DebugReportsModel.sosreport_generate},)

Create a new function ddginfo_generate:

@staticmethod
def dbginfo_generate(cb, name):
    # first of all let's generate the sosreport
    DebugReportsModel.sosreport_generate(cb, name)

    # After it, generated the dbginfo tar file
    <do all the work here>

    # Merge sosreport + dbginfo
    <...>


And it is done. That way we make sure to have the functions self contained. It is better for maintenance.

Let me know your thoughts on it.

Regards,
Aline Manera

On 04/11/2015 05:08, Megha Smriti wrote:
Hello Aline,

Please find my comment inline. Once I will get confirmation about the method separation mention in my previous mail [PATCH 1/2]. I will send you the next version patch.

Thanks,
Megha

On 11/3/2015 10:49 PM, Aline Manera wrote:

The same I commented regarding the commit message.

On 02/11/2015 10:03, mesmriti@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
From: Megha Smriti <mesmriti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

---
  src/wok/plugins/gingerbase/i18n.py               |  2 +
  src/wok/plugins/gingerbase/model/debugreports.py | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++---
  2 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/wok/plugins/gingerbase/i18n.py b/src/wok/plugins/gingerbase/i18n.py
index 01573b0..e19b997 100644
--- a/src/wok/plugins/gingerbase/i18n.py
+++ b/src/wok/plugins/gingerbase/i18n.py
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ messages = {
      "GGBDR0007E": _("Debug report name must be a string. Only letters, digits, underscore ('_') and "
                      "hyphen ('-') are allowed."),
      "GGBDR0008E": _("The debug report with specified name \"%(name)s\" already exists. Please use another one."),
+    "GGBDR0009E": _("Unable to create dbginfo report with %(retcode)s. Details: %(err)s"),

+    "GGBDR0010E": _("Unable to tar the final debug report tar file with %(retcode)s. Details: %(error)s"),

"Unable to compress the final debug report data due error %(retcode)s. Details: %(error)s"
Will take care of this in next patch version.

      "GGBHOST0001E": _("Unable to shutdown host machine as there are running virtual machines"),
      "GGBHOST0002E": _("Unable to reboot host machine as there are running virtual machines"),
      "GGBHOST0005E": _("When specifying CPU topology, each element must be an integer greater than zero."),
diff --git a/src/wok/plugins/gingerbase/model/debugreports.py b/src/wok/plugins/gingerbase/model/debugreports.py
index 0bb36fe..719e460 100644
--- a/src/wok/plugins/gingerbase/model/debugreports.py
+++ b/src/wok/plugins/gingerbase/model/debugreports.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import os
  import shutil
  import subprocess
  import time
+import platform
  import re

  from wok.exception import InvalidParameter, NotFoundError, OperationFailed
@@ -108,16 +109,75 @@ class DebugReportsModel(object):
                  raise OperationFailed('GGBDR0004E', {'name': name})
              md5_report_file = sosreport_file + '.md5'
              report_file_extension = '.' + sosreport_file.split('.', 1)[1]
-            path = config.get_debugreports_path()
-            sosreport_target = os.path.join(path,
-                                            name + report_file_extension)
-            msg = 'Moving debug report file "%s" to "%s"' \
-                  % (sosreport_file, sosreport_target)
-            wok_log.info(msg)
-            shutil.move(sosreport_file, sosreport_target)
-            delete_the_sosreport_md5_file(md5_report_file)
-            cb('OK', True)
-            return
+            # If the platform is a system Z machine.
+            if platform.machine().startswith('s390'):

I suggest to create a new function to handle the sosreport generation for s390x. Just to make the code easier to read.
Please let me know you input regarding the separation of function mention in my previous mail [PATCH 1/2].

+                dbgreport_regex = '(\S+\s+)(\/\w+\/\w+-[\d+]{4}-[\d+]{2}' \
+                                  '-[\d+]{2}-[\d+]{2}-[\d+]{2}' \
+ '-[\d+]{2}-\w+-\d+\S+)(\s+\S+)'
+                command = ['/usr/sbin/dbginfo.sh']

Is there a parameter like '--tmp-dir' from sosreport to use with dbginfo.sh?
I will use that option to generate the dbginfo at config path.

What about the report name? Is it auto generated?
Yes, the name is auto generated with format  DBGINFO-*.tgz.

+                output, error, retcode = run_command(command)
+                if retcode != 0:
+                    raise OperationFailed("GGBDR0009E",
+                                          {'retcode': retcode, 'err': error})
+                output = output.splitlines()
+                for line in output:
+                    line = line.strip()
+                    n = re.match(dbgreport_regex, line)
+                    if n:
+                        dbginfo_report = n.groups()[1]
+                        break

+                pathis = '/var/tmp/'
+                file_extension_dbginfo = dbginfo_report.split('/', 2)[2]
+                target_report_file = os.path.join(pathis,
+ file_extension_dbginfo)
+                msg = 'Moving the "%s" to "%s"'\
+                      % (dbginfo_report, target_report_file)
+                shutil.move(dbginfo_report, target_report_file)

So the report is generated somewhere and moved to /var/tmp. Is that correct? Why do you need to move it to /var/tmp?
Since sosreport was getting generated at this path and we though to compress both together if platform is s390x.
Let me investigate if it is good idea to keep both tar separately in config path or should be compressed into one file.

+                wok_log.info(msg)

+                final_tar_report_name = name + report_file_extension

In the code below you are creating the tar.gz file. So why are you using an extension variable? It should correspond to the tar command you are using below.
This was done for moving the combined (sosreport compressed file+ dbginfo compressed file).

+                if dbginfo_report is not None:
+                    sosreport_tar = sosreport_file.split('/', 3)[3]
+                    dbginfo_tar = dbginfo_report.split('/', 2)[2]
+                    msg = 'Zipping the sosreport and debug info files into ' \
+                          'final report file'
+                    wok_log.info(msg)
+                    command = ['tar', '-cvzf', '%s' % final_tar_report_name,
+                               '-C', '/var/tmp/', dbginfo_tar, sosreport_tar]

Are you mixing sosreport with dbginfo? Is sosreport still present in s390x systems? Is the debug report a collection of sosreport + dbginfo?
Yes, I will investigate if it is good idea to keep both the report separately or compressed together.

Sorry, I am newbie with s390x tools, so it'd be good if you explain what you are going to do here.
That is fine. I will add comments in my next patch explaining what it is doing.

+                    output, error, retcode = run_command(command)
+                    if retcode != 0:
+                        raise OperationFailed("GGBDR0010E",
+                                              {'retcode': retcode,
+                                               'error': error})
+                    path = config.get_debugreports_path()
+                    dbg_target = os.path.join(path,
+                                              name + report_file_extension)
+                    # Moving report
+                    msg = 'Moving final debug  report file "%s" to "%s"' % \
+                          (final_tar_report_name, dbg_target)
+                    wok_log.info(msg)
+                    shutil.move(final_tar_report_name, dbg_target)
+ delete_the_sosreport_md5_file(md5_report_file)
+                    msg = 'Deleting the dbginfo file "%s" ' \
+                          % target_report_file
+                    wok_log.info(msg)
+                    os.remove(target_report_file)
+                    msg = 'Deleting the sosreport file "%s" ' % sosreport_file
+                    wok_log.info(msg)
+                    os.remove(sosreport_file)
+                    wok_log.info('The debug report file has been moved')
+                    cb('OK', True)
+                    return



+            else:
+                path = config.get_debugreports_path()
+                sosreport_target = os.path.join(path,
+                                                name + report_file_extension)
+                msg = 'Moving debug report file "%s" to "%s"' \
+                      % (sosreport_file, sosreport_target)
+                wok_log.info(msg)
+                shutil.move(sosreport_file, sosreport_target)
+                delete_the_sosreport_md5_file(md5_report_file)
+                cb('OK', True)
+                return

          except WokException as e:
              log_error(e)