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Conﬁguring gated

Specifying Tracing Options

Trace options specify the desired level of tracing output from gated.

Tracing output provides useful system information for setting up a node

on the network. Use trace options if you are setting up a node and want a

certain type of tracing sent to a log ﬁle. You can specify tracing in the

following ways:

• In a Protocol statement in the /etc/gated.conf conﬁguration ﬁle.

• In the Trace class of the /etc/gated.conf conﬁguration ﬁle.

• On the command line with the -t option when starting gated.

Trace information is appended to the trace ﬁle unless you specify

replace. Command line options are useful for tracing events in gated

prior to the reading of the conﬁguration ﬁle.

NOTE With version 3.5 of gated, the two statements previously in the Trace

class (tracefile and traceoptions) have been combined into one

traceoptions statement. So, the tracefile statement has been

eliminated. For details about the new syntax, type man 4 gated.conf

at the HP-UX prompt.

Table 8-3 shows the gated.conf global trace options that are related to

protocols.

Table 8-3 Protocol-Related Global Trace Options for gated Conﬁguration

Files

Option Effect

state Traces the state machine transitions in the protocols.

normal Traces the normal protocol events. (Abnormal protocol events are

always traced.)

policy Traces the application of protocol and user-speciﬁed policies to routes

that are being imported and exported.

task Traces the system interface and processing that is associated with

this protocol or peer.

timer Traces the timer usage by this protocol or peer.