diff --git a/ocs_ci/ocs/utils.py b/ocs_ci/ocs/utils.py
index 1b323008f20..44ac3ed3514 100644
--- a/ocs_ci/ocs/utils.py
+++ b/ocs_ci/ocs/utils.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 import yaml
 from gevent import sleep
+from pathlib import Path
 from libcloud.common.exceptions import BaseHTTPError
 from libcloud.common.types import LibcloudError
 from libcloud.compute.providers import get_driver
@@ -970,6 +971,8 @@ def run_must_gather(log_dir_path, image, command=None, cluster_config=None):
             timeout=must_gather_timeout,
             cluster_config=cluster_config,
         )
+        if config.DEPLOYMENT["external_mode"]:
+            collect_ceph_external(path=log_dir_path)
     except CommandFailed as ex:
         log.error(
             f"Failed during must gather logs! Error: {ex}"
@@ -986,6 +989,30 @@ def run_must_gather(log_dir_path, image, command=None, cluster_config=None):
     return mg_output
 
 
+def collect_ceph_external(path):
+    """
+    Collect ceph commands via cli tool on External mode cluster
+
+    Args:
+        path(str): The destination for saving the ceph files [output ceph commands]
+
+    """
+    try:
+        kubeconfig_path = os.path.join(
+            config.ENV_DATA["cluster_path"], config.RUN["kubeconfig_location"]
+        )
+        current_dir = Path(__file__).parent.parent.parent
+        script_path = os.path.join(current_dir, "scripts", "bash", "mg_external.sh")
+        run_cmd(
+            f"sh {script_path} {os.path.join(path, 'ceph_external')} {kubeconfig_path}",
+            timeout=100,
+        )
+    except Exception as ex:
+        log.info(
+            f"Failed to execute the ceph commands script due to the error {str(ex)}"
+        )
+
+
 def export_mg_pods_logs(log_dir_path):
     """
     Export must gather pods logs
diff --git a/scripts/bash/mg_external.sh b/scripts/bash/mg_external.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b3ad6ac8f27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/bash/mg_external.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -x
+
+dbglog() {
+    # Allow the input to be piped
+    declare msg=${1:-$(</dev/stdin)}
+
+    echo -e "${msg}" | tee -a "${BASE_COLLECTION_PATH}"/ceph/gather-debug.log
+}
+
+
+# Expect base collection path as an exported variable
+# If it is not defined, use PWD instead
+BASE_COLLECTION_PATH=${1:-"$(pwd)"}
+echo $BASE_COLLECTION_PATH
+
+KUBECONFIG=${2:-"~/.kube/config"}
+ns=${3:-"openshift-storage"}
+
+TOOL_POD_NAME=$(oc get pods --no-headers -n ${ns} -l app='rook-ceph-tools' | awk '{print $1}')
+if [ -z "$TOOL_POD_NAME" ]; then
+    dbglog "No tool pod found"
+    echo "No tool pod found"
+    exit 2
+fi
+
+
+gather_common_ceph_resources "${BASE_COLLECTION_PATH}"
+CEPH_GATHER_DBGLOG="${BASE_COLLECTION_PATH}"/gather-ceph-debug.log
+CEPH_COLLECTION_PATH="${BASE_COLLECTION_PATH}/ceph"
+COMMAND_OUTPUT_DIR=${CEPH_COLLECTION_PATH}/must_gather_commands
+COMMAND_JSON_OUTPUT_DIR=${CEPH_COLLECTION_PATH}/must_gather_commands_json_output
+COMMAND_ERR_OUTPUT_DIR=${CEPH_COLLECTION_PATH}/logs
+mkdir -p "${COMMAND_OUTPUT_DIR}"
+mkdir -p "${COMMAND_JSON_OUTPUT_DIR}"
+mkdir -p "${COMMAND_ERR_OUTPUT_DIR}"
+
+
+pids_ceph=()
+
+# Ceph commands1
+ceph_commands1=()
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph auth list")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph balancer pool ls")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph balancer status")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph config dump")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph config-key ls")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph crash ls")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph crash stat")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph device ls")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph df detail")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph fs dump")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph fs ls")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph fs status")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph health detail")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph healthcheck history ls")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph mds stat")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph mgr dump")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph mgr module ls")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph mgr services")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph mon stat")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph mon dump")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph osd df tree")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph osd tree")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph osd stat")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph osd dump")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph osd utilization")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph osd crush show-tunables")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph osd crush dump")
+ceph_commands1+=("ceph osd crush weight-set ls")
+
+# Ceph commands2
+ceph_commands2=()
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph osd crush weight-set dump")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph osd crush rule dump")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph osd crush rule ls")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph osd crush class ls")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph osd perf")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph osd numa-status")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph osd getmaxosd")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph osd pool ls detail")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph osd lspools")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph osd df")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph osd blocked-by")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph osd blacklist ls")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph osd pool autoscale-status")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph pg dump")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph pg stat")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph progress")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph progress json")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph quorum_status")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph rbd task list")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph report")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph service dump")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph status")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph time-sync-status")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph versions")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph log last 10000 debug cluster")
+ceph_commands2+=("ceph log last 10000 debug audit")
+ceph_commands2+=("rados lspools")
+ceph_commands2+=("rados ls --pool=ocs-storagecluster-cephblockpool")
+ceph_commands2+=("rados ls --pool=ocs-storagecluster-cephfilesystem-metadata --namespace=csi")
+
+
+
+# Collecting output of ceph osd config
+for i in $(timeout 120 oc -n "${ns}" exec "${TOOL_POD_NAME}" -- bash -c "ceph osd tree --connect-timeout=15 |  grep up " | awk '{print $4}'); do
+    { timeout 120 oc -n "${ns}" exec "${TOOL_POD_NAME}" -- bash -c "ceph config show $i" >>"${COMMAND_OUTPUT_DIR}/config_$i"; } >>"${COMMAND_ERR_OUTPUT_DIR}"/gather-config-"$i"-debug.log 2>&1 &
+    pids_ceph+=($!)
+done
+# Check if PID array has any values, if so, wait for them to finish
+if [ ${#pids[@]} -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "Waiting on subprocesses to finish execution."
+    wait "${pids[@]}"
+fi
+
+
+# Collecting output of ceph commands
+for ((i = 0; i < ${#ceph_commands1[@]}; i++)); do
+    dbglog "collecting command output for: ${ceph_commands1[$i]}"
+    COMMAND_OUTPUT_FILE=${COMMAND_OUTPUT_DIR}/${ceph_commands1[$i]// /_}
+    JSON_COMMAND_OUTPUT_FILE=${COMMAND_JSON_OUTPUT_DIR}/${ceph_commands1[$i]// /_}_--format_json-pretty
+    { timeout 120 oc --kubeconfig="${KUBECONFIG}" -n "${ns}" exec "${TOOL_POD_NAME}" -- bash -c "${ceph_commands1[$i]} --connect-timeout=15" >>"${COMMAND_OUTPUT_FILE}"; } >>"${COMMAND_ERR_OUTPUT_DIR}"/gather-"${ceph_commands1[$i]}"-debug.log 2>&1 &
+    pids_ceph+=($!)
+    { timeout 120 oc --kubeconfig="${KUBECONFIG}" -n "${ns}" exec "${TOOL_POD_NAME}" -- bash -c "${ceph_commands1[$i]} --connect-timeout=15 --format json-pretty" >>"${JSON_COMMAND_OUTPUT_FILE}"; } >>"${COMMAND_ERR_OUTPUT_DIR}"/gather-"${ceph_commands1[$i]}"-json-debug.log 2>&1 &
+    pids_ceph+=($!)
+done
+# Check if PID array has any values, if so, wait for them to finish
+if [ ${#pids[@]} -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "Waiting on subprocesses to finish execution."
+    wait "${pids[@]}"
+fi
+
+
+# Collecting output of ceph commands
+for ((i = 0; i < ${#ceph_commands2[@]}; i++)); do
+    dbglog "collecting command output for: ${ceph_commands2[$i]}"
+    COMMAND_OUTPUT_FILE=${COMMAND_OUTPUT_DIR}/${ceph_commands2[$i]// /_}
+    JSON_COMMAND_OUTPUT_FILE=${COMMAND_JSON_OUTPUT_DIR}/${ceph_commands2[$i]// /_}_--format_json-pretty
+    { timeout 120 oc --kubeconfig="${KUBECONFIG}" -n "${ns}" exec "${TOOL_POD_NAME}" -- bash -c "${ceph_commands2[$i]} --connect-timeout=15" >>"${COMMAND_OUTPUT_FILE}"; } >>"${COMMAND_ERR_OUTPUT_DIR}"/gather-"${ceph_commands2[$i]}"-debug.log 2>&1 &
+    pids_ceph+=($!)
+    { timeout 120 oc --kubeconfig="${KUBECONFIG}" -n "${ns}" exec "${TOOL_POD_NAME}" -- bash -c "${ceph_commands2[$i]} --connect-timeout=15 --format json-pretty" >>"${JSON_COMMAND_OUTPUT_FILE}"; } >>"${COMMAND_ERR_OUTPUT_DIR}"/gather-"${ceph_commands2[$i]}"-json-debug.log 2>&1 &
+    pids_ceph+=($!)
+done
+
+# Check if PID array has any values, if so, wait for them to finish
+if [ ${#pids[@]} -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "Waiting on subprocesses to finish execution."
+    wait "${pids[@]}"
+fi
diff --git a/tests/manage/z_cluster/test_bz.py b/tests/manage/z_cluster/test_bz.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0b02f15d8f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/manage/z_cluster/test_bz.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import logging
+
+from ocs_ci.framework.testlib import ManageTest
+
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class TestAcceptance(ManageTest):
+    """
+    Acceptance test Managed Service
+
+    """
+
+    def test_acceptance(self):
+        assert 1 == 2
+        # from ocs_ci.ocs.utils import _collect_ocs_logs
+        # from ocs_ci.framework import config as ocsci_config
+        # _collect_ocs_logs(
+        #     ocsci_config,
+        #     dir_name="/home/oviner/test/test2",
+        #     ocp=False,
+        #     ocs=True,
+        #     mcg=False,
+        # )
+        # a=1