continuous tracing

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

When is continuous tracing needed:

If traces of a situation, where the problem only occurs in a long time interval, are needed for further investigation.

For example: The issue occurs continuesly but in a long term interval, in order to find the root cause of the problem we need traces.
 
In these cases we reccomend using the "continuous tracing" (or in german rollierender Trace)
 
A "continues trace" is an automation that continuously starts and stops the writing of tracefiles, which means you will have a larger amount of tracefiles
but smaller in size.

A "continues trace" consists of  2 objects : a scriptobject 'SCRI.UC4_TRACE_SERVER' and a VARA-Object 'VARA.UC4_TRACE'

Environment

Release: AOATAM99000-9.0-Automic-One Automation Tools-Application Manager
Component:

Resolution

In these cases we reccomend using the "continuous tracing" (or in german rollierender Trace)   A "continues trace" is an automation that continuously starts and stops the writing of tracefiles, which means you will have a larger amount of tracefiles but smaller in size.   A "continues trace" consists of  2 objects : a scriptobject 'SCRI.UC4_TRACE_SERVER' and a VARA-Object 'VARA.UC4_TRACE'   The scriptobject will periodically (:SET &NumberOfMinutes# = 10 in object SCRI.UC4_TRACE_SERVER) switch on a and off the needed traces.   This will force the server to create new tracefile every for example "10 minutes".   Set the traceflags as needed for example :SET &MyTraceFlags# =  "2400000000000000" is a "TCPIP trace  2" and a "Database trace 4" <Please see attached file for image> align="baseline" class="documentation" style="display: inline;" border="0" alt=".png" src="http://ecmstage.ca.com/KB%20Asset%20Library/000008444_Embeded/.png" width="773" height="480"> The script will stay in status 'generating' until ended! To stop the tracing simply edit the value from YES ton NO in the vara-object VARA.UC4_TRACE_SERVER !NOTE only stop the tracing this way because if you stop manualy the tracing will still be active!!