Technical Documentation

Configuring Operations for Extended DHCP Relay Agent Processes (NSM Procedure)

You can configure tracing operations for extended DHCP relay agent processes.

To configure tracing operations for DHCP relay agent in NSM:

  1. In the NSM navigation tree, select Device Manager > Devices.
  2. Click the Device Tree tab, and then double-click the device to select it.
  3. Click the Configuration tab. In the configuration tree, expand Forwarding Options > DHCP Relay.
  4. Select Traceoptions.
  5. Add or modify settings as specified in Table 1.
  6. Click one:
    • OK—Saves the changes.
    • Cancel—Cancels the modifications.

Table 1: DHCP Relay Traceoptions Configuration Details

Task Your Action

Configure tracing operations for extended DHCP relay agent processes.

  1. In the Comment box, enter the comment for the traceoptions.
  2. Select the No Remote Trace check box to disable remote tracing globally or for a specific tracing operation.

Specify the name of the file to receive the output of the tracing operation and specifies the maximum number of trace files.

  1. Click File next to Traceoptions.
  2. In the Comment box, enter the comment for the file.
  3. In the Filename box, enter the name of the file to receive the output of the tracing operation.
  4. In the Size box, enter the maximum size of each trace file, in kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB), or gigabytes (GB).
  5. From the Files list, select the maximum number of trace files.

    Range: 2 through 1000.

  6. Select one of the following:
    • world-readable—To enable unrestricted file access
    • no-world-readable—To restrict file access to owner
  7. In the Match box, enter the regular expression.

Specify the tracing operation to perform. To specify more than one tracing operation, include multiple flag statements.

  1. Click Flag next to Traceoptions.
  2. Click Add new entry next to Flag.
  3. From the Name list, select the flag.
  4. In the Comment box, enter the comment for the flag.

Published: 2009-08-23