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Working With Domains
Press the
6
Depending on the size of the trace buffer(s), it may take up to a minute for the information to load.
It may take longer for trace buffers viewed over a LAN; the loading speed will depend on the
speed of your network connection.
Opening a Trace
To Open a Trace:
1 Press the
dialog box appears.
2 Go to the directory where you have stored your trace. Select the file and select
Depending on the size of the trace file, it may take up to a minute for the file to load.
When opening a trace, Xgig Expert is run automatically. If the trace has not been processed by
Expert, a message appears asking if you would like to run Expert and process the trace. If you
agree, Expert is run in the background. Once the trace has been processed, a message appears
asking if you would like to reload the trace. You can also choose to view a partially processed
trace; refer to
invocation of Expert by selecting Options/Xgig TraceView Options then choosing the
protocol decodes
button in the
Opening Files in Other Formats
TraceView and Expert support a wide variety of commonly used capture or trace file formats. Use
the
Files of type:
Supported formats are listed below:
• Surveyor .hst and .cap files
• Bus Doctor (SAS, SATA)
• I-tech (SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel, GigE)
• Ethereal (including SUSE and RedHat special formats)
• libpcap / pcap
• tcpdump (Raw data format only, text or binary formats not supported)
• Sun Snoop (Raw data format only, text or binary formats not supported)
• Sniffer DOS format (not the newer Wildpackets or Sniffer Windows formats)
• Microsoft Network Monitor (NetMon) v2.0. (NetMon 1.x files are not supported.)
• NetScout v1.0 and v2.0 - both Ethernet and Fibre Channel formats
See "Converting Bus Doctor Files" on page 394
Doctor traces. See
I-tech traces.
Cisco VT captures through Ethereal are detected and the embedded Fibre Channel inside of the
Ethernet (Cisco's proprietary format) is converted to a Fibre Channel trace automatically.
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button.
OK
Open File button. Or, from the
"Viewing Partial Annotation in TraceView" on page
tab and turning off the "Automatically launch Expert on new traces." radio
Annotations For New Traces
option in the dialog to select the type of file to convert and open.
Open
"Converting I-Tech Files" on page 396
Chapter 12, Getting Started with Xgig TraceView
File pull down menu, select
383. You can turn off automatic
section.
for complete information on converting Bus
for complete information on converting
Open . The Open
Open .
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