NetApp built-in packet capture
Posted: June 24, 2013 Filed under: NetApp, Storage | Tags: capture, netapp packet capture, packet, packet capture, pktt, pktt dump, pktt start, pktt stop 2 CommentsI first had to do this at the direction of NetApp tech support. Ever since, I found myself searching my email for it so I could use it again and again. I finally took the hint and decided to post it here for my reference – but maybe you could use it as well. Oh, and copy it to Evernote, too.
They way I use this, as you might expect, is to start the capture, perform the operation that’s failing, and then stop the capture. So as not to capture too much traffic and therefore have to wade through all of it, I try to perform those steps rather quickly. But then again, if you know a few useful features of Wireshark, you can get around in the capture file pretty easily. So here you are.
filer> pktt start all -d /etc/crash
<perform the operation that fails here>
filer> pktt dump all filer> pktt stop all