[Internal]: Elastic Endpoint memory dump add information about gdb

[111andre111]

Description

At the moment Elastic Defend binary elastic-endpoint allows the possibility to create a memory dump on Linux Endpoints.

However it is important to document that for Linux package gdb (GNU Debugger) is needed for creating a memory dump. Otherwise when executing elastic-endpoint memorydump it will throw a message Unable to perform memory dump: Failure in an external software component, Dump failed..

The documentation page responsible for this can be found here:
https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/security/endpoint-command-reference#elastic-endpoint-memorydump-command

cc @nfritts

Resources

https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/security/endpoint-command-reference#elastic-endpoint-memorydump-command

Which deployment methods does this change impact?

Unknown

Feature differences

All 8.x and 9.x versions would need that documentation update. (The feature has been available since around 7.11 for Windows and 7.13 for Linux)

What Elastic Stack release is this request related to?

8.19

Serverless release

No response

Collaboration model

Unknown

Point of contact.

Main contact: @nfritts

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[nfritts]

Andre is correct, we should update these docs please.