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

MegaZone (megazone@megazone.org)
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:12:14 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Jeff Haas shaped the electrons to say...
>This is exactly the type of issue we (Msen) expects to be an issue
>with the PM4. We do this. All the time. Java goo is not an option

Yeah, I can see it being an issue with the PM4. But I think I recall
something being worked on about that.

>o Non-GUI based Java tool.

I believe they've already doen that - aren't the PMTools non-GUI? I know
Andy has mentioned non-GUI Java apps here.

>o Ability to set filter options on the command line and interactively.

I'm missing this - you mean filter what is show on the command line?

>o Ability to filter out things like LCP_ECHO's.

I agree that it would be nice to turn off those annoying messages like
CRC Error and such. There are a number of such status messages that spew to
console, wanted or not. There should be a seperate debug toggle for them.

>o Ability to lock a debug session on a given S-port based on the
> ANI coming off the PRI. I _know_ the number my customer is calling
> from and I should be able to use it.

This is a keen idea, I think it is the first time I've seen it mentioned.

Over all it would be keen to have some regexp abilities on the command line
so that only the debug you wanted to see is shown, and not everything.

-MZ

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