HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.X Command Reference Guide (AA-RVHVB-TE, September 2005)

714 Fabric OS commands
Displays, initiates, or removes a trace dump.
Synopsis
tracedump [-S] [-s slot]
tracedump -n [-s slot]
tracedump -r [-s slot]
Availability
admin
Description
Use this command to initiate a background trace dump, to remove the content of a trace dump, or to
display the dump status on the switch.
NOTE: If there is no parameter specified, this command defaults to traceDump -S.
The default remote file name format is chassisname-S#-YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.dmp, in which # is the slot
number (0 on nonbladed systems), and YYYYMMDDHHMMSS (year-month-day-hour-minute-second) is the
trace dump time.
Operands
This command has the following mutually exclusive operands:
This command has the following optional operand:
Examples
To initiate a background trace dump from slot 5:
To remove a trace dump:
See also
supportFtp
supportSave
supportShow
traceDump
-S Displays dump status.
-n Initiates a background trace dump.
-r Removes the content of a trace dump.
--s slot Specifies the slot number from which a trace dump is generated. If this is
not supplied, the trace dump is generated from the local slot.
switch:admin> tracedump -n -s 5
switch:admin> tracedump -r
trace dump removed