Avaya 8800 Troubleshooting Manual page 247

Prerequisites
• The Secondary SF/CPU is installed and active.
• If saving to external memory, a PCMCIA card (or external flash on the 8895 SF/CPU) is
installed.
• Access Global Configuration mode.
Procedure steps
1. Enable PCAP using the following command:
2. Use the following variable definitions table to configure other parameters as
3. Ensure the configuration is correct:
Variable definitions
Use the information in the following table to complete the pcap command.
auto-save [file-name
<WORD 1-40>] [pcmcia]
[network] [ip
<A.B.C.D>]
buffer-size <2-420>
buffer-wrap
Troubleshooting
pcap enable
required.
show pcap
Variable
Enables or disables auto-save. When enabled, saves
the captured frames into the device specified and
continues to capture frames. The default is enable. If this
option is disabled, packets are stored in the DRAM buffer
only.
file-name <WORD 1-40>
where captured frames are saved.
pcmcia sets the device to PCMCIA.
network sets the device to network.
ip <A.B.C.D> is the IP address used. This is used
only if the device is network.
Specifies the size of the buffer allocated for storing data.
A Mezz SF/CPU can use up to 420 MB. The default is
32 MB.
Enables buffer wrapping. When this parameter is set to
true and the buffer becomes full, the capture continues
by wrapping the buffer. If this parameter is set to false
and the buffer becomes full, the packet capture stops.
PCAP configuration
Value
is the name of the file
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