On 26.08.2013 10:54, YLivay wrote:
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> I'm trying to follow a driver's trace but much too often an event on
> the
> other channel arrives and the trace gets messy and starts jumping back
> and forth, rendering the trace completely unreadable.
>
> My example is going through a heavy user add operation while a modify
> user flows from the connected system. The trace goes back and forth
> between the events and it's hard to tell apart query results and the
> modify event.

It can be very difficult to read a trace from a busy driver, I
understand your problem and have experienced it myself.

> Is there any way to automatically tell when it's hopping from one event
> to the other?
> Should I perhaps limit the driver to 1 thread anyways? Is that even
> possible?

Each channel is independently threaded. So you can't really limit the
driver to 1 thread total. You will always have two channels.

> I thought about using the event-id but from what I've read so far it
> doesn't look
> too consistent and is more a "best effort" type.

The event id is useful for tracking an event in a trace.

It was my understanding that the IDM engine will try and assign an
event-id that includes the driver which originated the change (but only
if that driver is part of the same driverset). Otherwise, it simply
indicates the server which originated the change.

Regardless, the event-id plus the channel indicator should be enough to
get you by.

Colour coding the channels can also help. I use baretail to view my log
files on windows with custom colour/highlighting rules to help make it
easier to distinguish each channel.

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Problem with ID is that it is visible only in the event nds and not in
the actual trace lines,
so till you reach the end of a policy you can't be sure what event
you're tracing.

Isn't there a utility to help read logs and not only display them?


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Problem with ID is that it is visible only in the event nds and not in
the actual trace lines,
so till you reach the end of a policy you can't be sure what event
you're tracing.

Isn't there a utility to help read logs and not only display them?


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YLivay wrote:

> Isn't there a utility to help read logs and not only display them?

Apart from the situation you just experience here, traces are really well
readable and you do not need any tool to do it.

Would indeed be *very* helpful if it was possible to have subscriber an
publisher write to separate log files. You could enter an enhancement request
for it, should'nt be too hard to implement: try http://www.novell.com/rms

On 26.08.2013 12:44, YLivay wrote:
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> Problem with ID is that it is visible only in the event nds and not in
> the actual trace lines,
> so till you reach the end of a policy you can't be sure what event
> you're tracing.

You can infer this, by looking at the channel.

There aren't multiple *active* threads within a channel, so the trace
will clearly indicate if it starts processing a new event.

When a policy requires a new thread (for example a query, or a direct
write) the context of the existing thread is saved and the thread is paused.

Then the new thread is processed and once it completes, control is
returned to the original thread.

Take a look at:

https://www.netiq.com/communities/coolsolutions/comprehending-idm-traces-part-1/

and

https://www.netiq.com/communities/coolsolutions/comprehending-idm-traces-part-2/

for more details.

> Isn't there a utility to help read logs and not only display them?

My ex-colleague once talked about writing such a util, I don't believe
he ever got beyond a prototype.


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On 26.08.2013 12:44:01, YLivay Wrote:
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>
> Problem with ID is that it is visible only in the event nds and not in
> the actual trace lines,
> so till you reach the end of a policy you can't be sure what event
> you're tracing.
>
> Isn't there a utility to help read logs and not only display them?

Thanks to an employee of NetIQ/Novell, there is now a simple perl
script to help with this.

https://www.netiq.com/communities/coolsolutions/cool_tools/idm-engine-trace-split-tool/

You could use this in conjunction with a log viewer that can
synchronize scroll two log files based on the timestamps in the log
files so that you could quickly switch between the two channels and
retain context.

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