Logtool Specifications

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3.3. Typical Logtool Usage
A typical Logtool session could consist of the following activities:
• View a summary of a raw log file on the system and determine if any entries
have been logged that are of interest.
• If the raw log summary indicates that there are some entries of interest:
• Set up a format filter which will filter out all entries except for those of
interest.
• Format the raw log file(s).
• Display the formatted log file.
Once a formatted log file has been generated, the user may wish to further narrow the
entries that are displayed. This can be done by setting the formatted display filter to
the appropriate values prior to displaying the log. For example, the user may have
used a format filter to format all entries from the SCSI disk driver. After viewing a
summary of the formatted entries, the user may decide that only entries for a
particular device or, perhaps, only entries after a certain date and time are of interest.
The user could then set the formatted display filter to specify a specific device path
and/or date and time and view the formatted log.
The commands used in these examples, as well as other Logtool commands, are all
discussed in detail in the following section.