Copying Captured Packets To A Remote Machine; Resetting The Pcap Dram Buffer - Avaya 8800 Troubleshooting Manual

Software troubleshooting tool configuration using CLI

Copying captured packets to a remote machine

You can copy packets to a remote machine, or the switch flash or PCMCIA (or external flash
on the 8895 SF/CPU). If PCAP is used with autosave disabled, captured packets are stored
in the secondary SF/CPU DRAM buffer.
Procedure steps
To copy the packets to a file for later viewing, use the copy or FTP get commands.
These commands can be executed in the primary CPU.
copy PCAP00 /<device> /<filename>
OR
ftp> get PCAP00 <filename>
For example:
copy PCAP00 /pcmcia/file.cap
Variable definitions
Use the information in the following table to help you perform this procedure.
<device>
<filename>

Resetting the PCAP DRAM buffer

You can clear the PCAP DRAM buffer and the PCAP counters.
Procedure steps
1. Log on to the Secondary SF/CPU.
2. Disable PCAP:
3. Reset the PCAP engine DRAM buffer:
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Variable
config diag pcap enable false
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Specifies pcmcia, flash, or an IP host by IP address.
Specifies the PCAP file (.cap).
Value
July 2013