From 2d711c221201e1bcc90fb9f66133f5f972ce3ba2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathaniel Clark Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:28:24 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] LUDOC-91: Add wireshark to debugging tools Add section on wireshark and pointing to wireshark plugins in contrib. Change-Id: Id7bcbcb1ac7803c1893a75d08a62edc6f45e548b Signed-off-by: Nathaniel Clark Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/5197 Tested-by: Hudson Reviewed-by: Doug Oucharek Reviewed-by: Richard Henwood --- LustreDebugging.xml | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/LustreDebugging.xml b/LustreDebugging.xml index 761deea..c9ec606 100644 --- a/LustreDebugging.xml +++ b/LustreDebugging.xml @@ -96,6 +96,19 @@ Lustre Debugging Tools netdump . A crash dump utility from Red Hat that allows memory images to be dumped over a network to a central server for analysis. The netdump utility was replaced by kdump in RHEL 5. For more information about netdump, see Red Hat, Inc.'s Network Console and Crash Dump Facility. + + wireshark . 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 + tcpdump 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 Lustre git repository + under lustre/contrib/wireshark/. Installation + instruction are included in that directory. See also Wireshark Website for + more details. +
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