Formatting a report on a different system

It is often desirable to run the trcrpt command on another system than the system where the trace is collected.

There may be various reasons for this, such as:

The system being traced might not be available for you to run the trcrpt command, and the trace might be collected by the system administrator or someone at the remote site.
The system being traced is too busy for you to run the trcrpt command.
The system being traced does not have enough file system space left to accommodate a very large trcrpt file.

You can run the trace command on a system and run the trcrpt command on that trace file on a different system. In order for this to work correctly, the output of the trcnm command is needed from the system where the trace was run. Run the trcnm command and redirect the output into a file, as follows:

# trcnm > trace.nm

If you want to use the trace file for other performance tools such as tprof, pprof, netpmon, and filemon, run the gennames Gennames_File command.

That file is then used with the -n flag of the trcrpt command, as follows:

# trcrpt -n trace.nm -o newfile

If -n is not specified, then the trcrpt command generates a symbol table from the system on which the trcrpt command is run.

Additionally, a copy of the /etc/trcfmt file from the system being traced might be beneficial because that system may have different or more trace format stanzas than the system where the trcrpt command is being run. The trcrpt command can use the -t flag to specify the trace format file (by default it uses the /etc/trcfmt file from the system where the trcrpt command is being run). For example:

# trcrpt -n trace.nm -t trcfmt_file -o newfile