Tracing and Logging Utilities

Introduction

Introduction

This chapter describes the use of the X.25 tracing and logging utilities provided with your X.25 link. These utilities are briefly described in the following table. Refer to Chapter 8, Troubleshooting, if you need help deciding which utility to use.

Table 7-1

Available Tracing and Logging Utilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

Utility

Description

Refer to:

 

 

 

 

 

nettl

Creates a user-defined log file

man page and this

 

 

containing frame and packet trace

chapter for

 

 

information from X.25 packet and

examples

 

 

LAP-B levels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

netfmt

Formats trace information

man page and this

 

 

contained in the user-defined log file

chapter for

 

 

that was generated with the nettl

examples

 

 

command

 

 

 

 

 

 

strace

Creates a log file of event messages

man page and this

 

 

for X.25 levels 2 and 3, and IP over

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X.25.

examples

 

 

 

 

 

strerr

Receives error messages from the

man page and this

 

 

Streams log driver.

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examples

 

 

 

 

The following diagram shows the areas of the X.25 product covered by the network event logging and network tracing utilities.

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