Technical Documentation

Configuring Trace Options on the Routing Platform (NSM Procedure)

You can configure the trace options using this option.

To configure trace options 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 Interfaces.
  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: Traceoption Configuration Details

Task Your Action

Define tracing operations for the interface process.
  1. In the Comment box, enter the comment for the traceoptions.
  2. Select No Remote Trace check box to disable remote tracing.
  3. Click File next to Traceoptions.
  4. In the Comment box, enter the comment for the filename.
  5. In the Filename box, enter the name of the file to receive the output of the tracing operation.
  6. In the Size box, enter the maximum trace file size.
  7. From the Files list, select the maximum number of trace files.
  8. Select one of the following:
    • no-world-readable—To restrict the file access to owner.
    • Selectworld-readable—To enable unrestricted access.
  9. In the Matchbox, enter the regular expression.
  10. Click Flag next to Traceoptions.

Define flag.
  1. Click Add new entry next to Flag.
  2. From the Name list, select the flag to perform the trace operation.
    • Select kernel to log configuration IPC messages to kernel.
    • Select change-events to log changes that produce configuration events.
    • Select kernel-detail to log details of configuration messages to kernel.
    • Select config-states to log the configuration state machine changes.
  3. Enter the comment for the flag.
  4. Select the Disable check box to disable the tracing operation.

Published: 2009-08-23