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NOTE:
Typing all.escape_char or sN.escape_char from the sniff session or send message mode makes the
console server to show the previous menu. If you kill all regular sessions using option 4, your session initiates as
a regular session automatically.
To configure session sniffing:
1.
Execute the following command for one or multiple serial ports. Refer to Table 5.11 for session
sniffing parameters.
cli>
config physicalports <'all' or range/list[1-xx]> multiuser
[parameter] <value>
2.
Activate and save your configuration.
Data Buffering
Data buffering may be done in local files or in remote files through NFS. When using remote files,
the limitation is imposed by the remote server (disk/partition space) and the data is kept in linear
(sequential) files in the remote server. When using local files, the limitation is imposed by the size
of the available ramdisk. You may wish to have data buffering done in file, syslog or both. For
syslog, all.syslog_buffering and conf.DB_facility are the parameters to be dealt with, and syslog-
ng.conf file should be set accordingly. Please see
Syslog-ng
on page 71 for the syslog-ng
configuration file. The data buffering parameters are configured in file all.data_buffering.
Conf.nfs_data_buffering is a remote network file system where data buffering is written to, instead
of the default directory /var/run/DB. When commented, it indicates local data buffering. The
directory tree to which the file is written must be NFS-mounted and the local path should point to/
mnt/DB_nfs. The remote host must have NFS installed and the administrator must create, export
and allow read/write privileges to the directory. The size of this file is not limited by the value of
Table 5.11: Session Sniffing Parameters
Parameter
Value
Description
hotkey
<^(character)>
To configure the escape character. The selected
character must be preceded by the ‘^’ character. For
example, ^k.
notifyusers
yes|no
To configure multiuser notification.
multisessions
no | ro | rw | yes
To configure multiple sessions.
privilegeusers
<list of user names
separated by commas>
To determine which users may receive the sniff menu.
sniffmode
in | inout | no | urt
Determines what other users connected to the very
same port may see of the session of the first connected
user (main session). Valid values are:
in
- shows data
written to the port;
out
- shows data received from the
port;
in/out
- shows both streams;
off
- disables sniffing.
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