Technical Documentation

Tracing Services PIC Operations (NSM Procedure)

Tracing operations track all adaptive services operations and record them in a log file. The logged error descriptions provide detailed information to help you solve problems faster.

To configure tracing services PIC operations in NSM:

  1. In the navigation tree select Device Manager > Devices.
  2. In the Devices list, double-click the device to select it.
  3. In the Configuration tab, expand Services.
  4. Select Logging.
  5. Add or modify the settings as specified in Table 1.
  6. Click one:
    • OK—To save the changes.
    • Cancel—To cancel the modifications.

Table 1: Traceoptions Configuration Details

Task Your Action

Configure Adaptive Services or Multiservices PIC tracing operations.

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

Specifiy 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

    Default: 3 files

  6. Select one of the following:
    • world-readable—To enable unrestricted file access.
    • no-world-readable—To restrict file access to owner. This is the default setting.
  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