Remotely Administering SNA Server Tracing

 Last reviewed: June 18, 1997
Article ID: Q123004
2.00 2.10 WINDOWS kbnetwork

The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft SNA Server for Windows NT, versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.11, and 3.0

SUMMARY

Microsoft SNA Server includes an SNATRACE tool (Win32 utility), installed into the Microsoft SNA Server (Common) program group, to allow an administrator to dynamically turn off/on all types of server-side (and Win32 SNA application-side) SNA Server tracing.

This article describes how to remotely control SNA Server tracing using the SNATRACE program. When administering tracing for SNA Server 2.x, the SNATRACE program from 2.11 must be used. When administering tracing for SNA Server 3.0, the SNATRACE program from 3.0 must be used.

The trace state is dynamically controlled by registry parameters on the SNA Server client or server computer. The SNATRACE program sets these registry parameters, though REGEDT32 could be used by knowledgeable SNA Server support personnel to remotely control SNA Server tracing.

MORE INFORMATION

The SNA Server SNATRACE program accepts a \\servername command line parameter to remotely control tracing. For example: 

   SNATRACE \\servername
allows an authorized administrator to remotely control SNA Server tracing on \\servername. The administrator must be able to update the registry of the remote computer in order to control tracing.

SNA Server trace files are generated on the remote server machine and can be found in the <snaroot>\TRACES directory. SNA Server 2.x stores traces as *.TRC, which can be viewed using any text editor. SNA Server 3.0 stores traces as *.ATF, which can be viewed by the TRACEVWR.EXE tool installed with SNA Server 3.0.

Additional reference words: prodsna 2.00 2.10 2.11 3.00
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Last reviewed: June 18, 1997
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