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+// check if kail is installed, if not installs it
+// and then uses it to collect logs on specified containers
+
+// appsToLog is a list of kubernetes labels used by kail to get the logs
+// the generated log file is named with the string after =
+// for example app=bbsim will generate a file called bbsim.log
+
+// to archive the logs use: archiveArtifacts artifacts: '${logsDir}/*.log'
+def call(Map config) {
+
+    def tagPrefix = "jenkins"
+
+    def defaultConfig = [
+        appsToLog: [
+            'app=onos-classic',
+            'app=adapter-open-onu',
+            'app=adapter-open-olt',
+            'app=rw-core',
+            'app=ofagent',
+            'app=bbsim',
+            'app=radius',
+            'app=bbsim-sadis-server',
+            'app=onos-config-loader',
+        ],
+        logsDir: "$WORKSPACE/logs"
+    ]
+
+    if (!config) {
+        config = [:]
+    }
+
+    def cfg = defaultConfig + config
+
+    // check if kail is installed and if not installs it
+    sh """
+    if ! command -v kail &> /dev/null
+    then
+        bash <( curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/boz/kail/master/godownloader.sh) -b "$WORKSPACE/bin"
+    fi
+    """
+
+    // fi the logsDir does not exists dir() will create it
+    dir(cfg.logsDir) {
+        for(int i = 0;i<cfg.appsToLog.size();i++) {
+            def label = cfg.appsToLog[i]
+            def logFile = label.split('=')[1]
+            def tag = "${tagPrefix}-kail-${logFile}"
+            println "Starting logging process for label: ${label}"
+            sh """
+            _TAG=${tag} kail -l ${label} --since 1h > ${logsDir}/${logFile}.log&
+            """
+        }
+    }
+}
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