SysDbgFlags, SysDbgHSMFS | HP File System Extender (FSE) instruction

2.14 NAME

–If string other than "." is speciﬁed, it will be considered as a ﬁle name for single FSE debug ﬁle, where all running FSE processes will write their debugging information into.

In both cases the log ﬁle(s) will be put in the /var/opt/fse/log/debug direc- tory.

This argument may only be used together with the SysDbgLevel argument. If it is not used, each FSE process writes the debugging data to its corre- sponding standard output stream (stdout).

•SysDbgFlags

A string composed of one or more (different) uppercase letters from the set {"I", "N", "C", "T", "E", "V"}. This argument speciﬁes in detail which events in the running FSE processes are logged and deﬁnes the form of the debug output in an FSE debug ﬁle. The letters have the following meaning:

–I ... Function in & out. Specify that entries and exits from functions should be logged. This choice results in large amounts of debugging information.

–N ... No–header form. Specify that no FSE debug ﬁle header is printed.

–C ... Compact–header form. Specify that a compact FSE debug ﬁle header instead of the full one is printed.

–T ... Exception throw. Specify that all events that cause an exception throw should be logged.

–E ... Error occurrence. Specify that major errors which occur in the FSE processes should be logged. Note that such errors are normally only logged in the FSE error log ﬁle.

–V ... Verbose third–party debugging.

This argument may only be used together with the SysDbgFile argument. If it is not used, no events are logged – only the FSE debug ﬁle header is printed.

•SysDbgHSMFS

HSM ﬁle system debugging ﬂags, speciﬁed by a positive hexadecimal inte- ger number of the form 0xNNNNNNNN. These ﬂags enable logging of the

File System Extender 3.2 Command Line Reference

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