5.10 Modifying Commands
By default, the analysis, translation, summary, and new binary log file commands all process the system event log. In addition, the output from analysis, translation, and summary commands is displayed on screen by default.
You can change the defaults in order to process other binary log files or to save the results to a file. When performing translation, summary, analysis, or creating a new binary log file, you can further restrict the events that are processed by filtering the binary log file used for input.
5.10.1 Input Files
Many commands in manual mode enable you to specify an input binary event log file:
input filenameWhere filename indicates the path and name of the input file. The following guidelines apply:
- Specifying an input file is optional. If you do not specify either a directory or a file, SEA processes the binary system event log, for example:
wsea ana
- Relative directory paths are allowed. If the current directory is C:\Program Files\hp\svctools\common\ca, and you want to analyze C:\Program Files\hp\svctools\common\ca\examples\ds20.errlog, you can enter:
wsea ana input examples\ds20.errlog
- If you specify a directory but no file name, SEA processes all files with .errlog, .sys, .zpd, or .evt extensions in that directory:
wsea analyze input examples
wsea ana input examples\ds20.errlog, examples\hscir1.zpd
- Wildcards are allowed. For example, here all files in the samples directory with a name that starts with "ds" and the .errlog extension are analyzed:
wsea ana input samples\ds*.errlog5.10.2 Output Files
With many commands, you can save the results of processing to a file rather than viewing the output on screen. (These guidelines do not apply when creating a new binary event log as described in Section 5.9. New binary event logs always require an output file name.)
To send the output of an operation to a file, use one of the following parameters:
out filename outhtml filenameThe out parameter creates a text output file and the outhtml parameter creates a HTML output file. The filename indicates the path and name where you want to save the output:
wsea ana out results.txt wsea ana outhtml results.html5.10.3 Filtering
The tra, sum, bin, and ana commands enable you to filter a binary event log file and only process a subset of the events. The following general rules apply when you use filters:
- Multiple filter statements are allowed when separated by a comma and space.
- Abbreviations are allowed for filter parameters. You only need the minimum number of letters to uniquely identify a parameter. For example, index could be abbreviated as ind.
- On Windows systems, any argument that includes a comma must be enclosed in quotation marks. This includes arguments that contain a date.
Table 5–4 lists the filtering statements available with the new common syntax.
Table 5–4 Filtering Statements (New Common Syntax) Filter Statement Description begin="date"since="date"end="date" Filters based on the time the event occurred. No events that occurred before the given start time or after the given end time are processed.The date can be entered in any format supported by Java (for example, dd-mmm-yyyy,hh:mm:ss). You do not need to include the time (hh:mm:ss) with the date.Be aware of the following additional guidelines:The begin and since statements are equivalent. You can use the keywords YESTERDAY and TODAY. With the begin and since keywords, you can enter a negative integer value to process based on a relative date. For example, entering -3 processes events from the last three days. include=keywordexclude=keyword Filters based on the numeric entry type. You must enter a keyword rather than the actual entry type. See Table 5–5 for supported keywords. node=name Filters based on the node responsible for generating the event. The name argument is case sensitive. index=nnindex="start:nn, end:nn" Filters based on the event's position in the event log. The first event in the file is event index 1. reverse Processes the events in reverse order according to the event index number.Only process events from the system ComputerName:
wsea tra node=ComputerName wsea sum node=ComputerName wsea bin input inputfile.zpd out outputfile.bin node=ComputerNameOnly process events that occurred before 8:33:57 PM on January 31, 2000:
wsea tra end="31-Jan-2000,20:33:57" wsea sum end="31-Jan-2000,20:33:57" wsea bin input inputfile.zpd out outputfile.bin end="31-Jan-2000,20:33:57"Only process CPU machine check and system machine check events (the translation command presents the output in reverse chronological order):
wsea tra include="mchk_cpu, mchk_sys reverse" wsea sum include="mchk_cpu, mchk_sys" wsea bin input inputfile.zpd out outputfile.bin include="mchk_cpu, mchk_sys"Only processes events beginning with the fifteenth event in the log file:
wsea tra index=start:15 wsea sum index=start:15 wsea bin input inputfile.zpd out outputfile.bin index=start:15