Logging Messages

An interface which guides you through logging and tracing tasks.

An interface which allows you to create and format reports.

The capability to collect logging and tracing subsystem-specific information.

Report screens which are updated instantaneously with current logging and tracing information by the subsystem.

Context-sensitive on-line help.

To examine the log file with cause and action descriptions, execute:

netfmt -v -f /var/adm/nettl.LOG00 | more

netfmt -v -f /var/adm/nettl.LOG000 | more (for HP-UX 11i)

The -v option enables the reporting of available cause and action descriptions for each log message. A sample log message using the -v option is shown below.

***********Gigabit Ethernet LAN/9000 Networking***********
  Timestamp            : Mon Aug 3 PDT 1998 18:37:16.175754
  Process ID           : [ICS]              Subsystem:GELAN
  User ID ( UID )      : -1              Log Class:DISASTER
  Device ID            :  3                 Path ID: 0   
  Connection ID        : 0                Log Instance: 0

To examine just the log messages in the log file, execute:

netfmt -f /var/adm/nettl.LOG00

netfmt -f /var/adm/nettl.LOG000 (for HP-UX 11i)

To check network logging and tracing status, execute:

nettl -status

To start Gigabit Ethernet tracing to the file /tmp/tracefile.TRC0, execute:

nettl -traceon all -entity gelan -file /tmp/tracefile

or

nettl -traceon all -entity igelan -file /tmp/tracefile

Note: nettl(1m) adds the .TRC0 postfix for you.

To stop Gigabit Ethernet tracing, execute:

nettl -traceoff -entity gelan

or

nettl -traceoff -entity igelan

To format the Gigabit Ethernet trace file into the file /tmp/traceout, execute:

netfmt -f /tmp/tracefile.TRC0 > /tmp/traceout