HP Routing Services -UX 11i v2 manual Specifying Tracing Options

Configuring gated

Specifying Tracing Options

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Specifying Tracing Options

Trace options specify the desired level of tracing output from gated. Tracing output provides useful system information for setting up a node on the network. Use trace options to set up a node and to send a certain type of tracing to a log file. You can specify tracing in the following ways:

•In a protocol statement in the /etc/gated.conf configuration file.

•In the Trace class of the /etc/gated.conf configuration file.

•On the command line with the -toption when starting gated.

Trace information is appended to the trace file unless you specify replace. Command-line options are useful for tracing events in gated before the configuration file is read.

In gated 3.5.9, the two Trace class statements (tracefile and traceoptions) are combined into one traceoptions statement. Therefore, the tracefile statement is eliminated. For details about the new syntax, type man 4 gated.conf at the HP-UX prompt.

Table 3-2 shows the gated.conf global trace options related to protocols.

Protocol-Related Global Trace Options for gated Configuration Files

Option	Effect
state	Traces the state machine transitions in the
	protocols.
normal	Traces the normal protocol events (abnormal
	protocol events are always traced).
policy	Traces the application of protocol and
	user-specified policies to routes that are imported
	and exported.
task	Traces the system interface and processing
	associated with this protocol or peer.

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