HP-UX SNAplus2 Diagnostics Guide

Using Logging and Tracing
Tracing
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Figure 3-1 Tracing Interfaces
The trace facilities write data to text files and to binary files. Use any
standard ASCII text editor to view the text files. Use the snaptrcfmt
command-line utility to convert the binary output to text files so that you
can also view them with an ASCII text editor. For more information, see
“Formatting Internal Binary Trace Output into Text Files”.
The following sections describe each type of tracing SNAplus2 provides
(listed in order of usefulness to end-users, beginning with the most
useful).
Line Tracing
The type of tracing you are most likely to need is line tracing, which
traces SNA messages flowing on the communications link to the remote
system. The following section explains how to perform line tracing using
the Motif administration program and the command-line administration
program.