Service advertising broadcast operation (track)
Servers on a NetWare network advertise their
services and addresses
using the Service Advertising Protocol (SAP).
The information that these servers broadcast
is collected by a SAP agent within
each NetWare file server (by SAPD on an SCO
IPX/SPX server) on the server's segment.
If all SAP agents on the internetwork
are exchanging SAP information properly,
each agent's server information table should have
information about all the servers on the internetwork.
For more information about the server information table, see
``Service advertising''.
track
can monitor the operation of service advertising broadcasts.
Run track with the command line:
track on
track starts listing SAP traffic to
the file specified by the parameter sap_track_out
in NPSConfig.
The default output file is /dev/console.
To stop the listing,
run track with the command line:
track off
The track listing looks like this:
IN [00000299:10005AAC41B2] 2:18:59pm TIGER 1 DEMING 2 FRED 1 OUT [00000080:FFFFFFFFFFFF] 2:19:00pm TIGER 2 DEMING 3 OPUS 2 CALVIN 1 OUT [00000299:FFFFFFFFFFFF] 2:19:00pm OPUS 2 CALVIN 1 OUT [00000099:FFFFFFFFFFFF] 2:19:00pm TIGER 2 DEMING 3 OPUS 2 CALVIN 1 OUT [00000199:FFFFFFFFFFFF] 2:19:00pm TIGER 2 DEMING 3 CALVIN 1 IN [00000299:10005AAC41FC] 2:19:00pm OPUS 2 CALVIN 1 IN [00000080:000000000001] 2:19:01pm CALVIN 0 IN [00000199:0000C00FAB13] 2:19:23pm OPUS 1 IN [00000099:0000C0448328] 2:19:33pm FRED 1 OUT [00000080:FFFFFFFFFFFF] 2:19:33pm FRED 2 OUT [00000299:FFFFFFFFFFFF] 2:19:33pm FRED 2 OUT [00000199:FFFFFFFFFFFF] 2:19:33pm FRED 2 IN [00000299:10005AAC41FC] 2:19:33pm FRED 2It presents the following: