Re: (PM) Ugly (but handy) debugging tool (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@megazone.org)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 15:25:38 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Curtis Coleman shaped the electrons to say...
>to work around what I consider a flaw in the way PortMasters do debugging.
>Specifically in that there is only one current console, one set of debug
>flags, lacklustre syslog & snmp support, etc.

The new debug settings (ie, non-hex) are independent. And I believe multiple
PMVision sessions cna watch different debugs simultaneously, but I'm not
sure on that.

The need to have multiple admin users debugging at the same time has never
been seen as a major demand.

I don't think the syslog support is lacklustre, especially in recent releases.
If you have a complaint, be specific. What is missing that you want to see?
Syslog already covers all the major events, logs commands, allows different
levels to be set, etc.

SNMP is solid, but incomplete. That is well known, they've been adding to
SNMP incrimentally in every release for a while now. The 3.8 betas again have
additional support, with more to come in later revs. Just look at the
increased support as it evolved from 3.3.x to 3.7.x. I don't think you can
claim this is something they are not actively addressing.

-MZ

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