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LUDOC-91: Add wireshark to debugging tools
authorNathaniel Clark <Nathaniel.Clark@misrule.us>
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:28:24 +0000 (16:28 -0500)
committerRichard Henwood <richard.henwood@intel.com>
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:57:53 +0000 (10:57 -0500)
Add section on wireshark and pointing to wireshark plugins in contrib.

Change-Id: Id7bcbcb1ac7803c1893a75d08a62edc6f45e548b
Signed-off-by: Nathaniel Clark <nathaniel.l.clark@intel.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/5197
Tested-by: Hudson
Reviewed-by: Doug Oucharek <doug.s.oucharek@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henwood <richard.henwood@intel.com>
LustreDebugging.xml

index 761deea..c9ec606 100644 (file)
@@ -96,6 +96,19 @@ Lustre Debugging Tools</title>
                 <literal>netdump</literal>
               </emphasis>. A crash dump utility from Red Hat that allows memory images to be dumped over a network to a central server for analysis. The <literal>netdump</literal> utility was replaced by <literal>kdump</literal> in RHEL 5. For more information about <literal>netdump</literal>, see <link xl:href="http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/netdump/">Red Hat, Inc.&apos;s Network Console and Crash Dump Facility</link>.</para>
           </listitem>
+         <listitem>
+           <para><emphasis><literal>wireshark</literal> </emphasis> . A network
+           packet inspection tool that allows debugging of information that was
+           sent between the various Lustre nodes. This tool is built on top of
+           <literal>tcpdump</literal> and can read packet dumps generated by
+           it.  There are plug-ins available to dissassemble the LNET and
+           Lustre protocols.  They are located within the <link
+           xl:href="http://git.whamcloud.com/">Lustre git repository</link>
+           under <literal>lustre/contrib/wireshark/</literal>.  Installation
+           instruction are included in that directory. See also <link
+           xl:href="http://www.wireshark.org/">Wireshark Website</link> for
+           more details.</para>
+         </listitem>
         </itemizedlist>
       </section>
       <section remap="h4">