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HP FDDI/9000 Resources

Logging and Tracing Messages

EISA FDDI/9000 and HSC FDDI/9000 come with an online message

catalog that reports problems, probable causes, and actions for you to

take to correct the problems. Messages are sent either to the system

console or log ﬁles, and come in the following format:

The following is an example of an HSC FDDI message:

7001 HP HSC FDDI card failed to initialize in slot 1.

EISA FDDI/9000 and HSC FDDI/9000 use the nettl logging and

tracing facility supplied with HP- UX to capture, control, and format

messages. When using nettl, note the following:

• log and trace messages are sent by default to the ﬁles

/var/adm/nettl.LOG## or /var/adm/nettl.TRC##

• all disaster messages are sent to the system console

• tracing and logging have an impact on system performance and

should be used judiciously

Listed below are some example commands.

• To examine the log ﬁle with message, cause, and action:

netfmt -v -f /var/adm/nettl.LOG00 -t 50

• To check network logging and tracing status:

nettl -status

• To start all tracing to the ﬁle /var/adm/tracefile:

nettl -traceon all -entity HSC_FDDI -f /var/adm/tracefile

• To stop tracing:

nettl -entity HSC_FDDI -traceoff

• To format the trace ﬁle into the ﬁle /var/adm/traceout:

netfmt -f /var/adm/tracefile.TRC0 > /var/adm/traceout