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:

<message ID> <messsage>

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

Logging and Tracing Messages

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