Producing a trace Report

The trace report facility formats and displays the collected event stream in readable form. This report facility displays text and data for each event according to rules provided in the trace format file.

The default trace format file is /etc/trcfmt and contains a stanza for each event ID. The stanza for the event provides the report facility with formatting rules for that event. This technique allows you to add your own events to programs and insert corresponding event stanzas in the format file to have their new events formatted.

This report facility does not attempt to extract summary statistics (such as CPU utilization and disk utilization) from the event stream. This can be done in several other ways. To create simple summaries, consider using awk scripts to process the output obtained from the trcrpt command.