BASE24 classic tracing of transactions. Audits, configuration, enabling and opening

Posted on 22nd Nov 2017 4336 views

BASE24 classic relies heavily on XPNET for auditing transactions and does not have a mechanism of his own for tracing.
BASE24-eps , when running on HP NSK (tandem) also relies on this auditing mechanism but also has an extra tracing mechanism where, if enabled, shows the steps taken while processing transactions.

In this article we will deal with the auditing mechanism of XPNET , which is used by both BASE24 classic and BASE24-eps, and in another article we will discuss the BASE24-eps tracing mechanism, with some explanations.

First part, audits on XPNET.
In XPNET, audits can be enabled and configured at different levels.
We will start with node level audit configuration.

A node configuration in XPNET looks like this

 31 >  info n  NP^NODE, detail
   NODE:        NP.NP^NODE                                ENABLED
   PROGRAM      NP.$NEAPAY.XPNET.NETWORK
   HOMETERM
   PPD          $B10N         STARTUP      COMMAND
   CPU          0             BCPU         2
   PPRI         155           BPRI         180        UDFAIL        OFF
   BACKUPTYPE   HOT           HIGHPIN      ON         BRETRYDELAY   0
   EXTPAGES     24000         PFS          512        MAXPROMSG     4096
   MED          30            MAT          60%        DEBUG         OFF
   QED          30            SINTERVAL    0          QUETHRESHOLD  100
                              X25TRUNKDEL  120        OSIENABLE     OFF
   LOGNQAT      0             LOGNQMT      0          LOGNQMI       0%
   LOGEQAT      0             LOGEQMT      0          LOGEQMI       0%
   UDQAT        0             UDQMT        0          UDQMI         0%
   USQAT        0             USQMT        0          USQMI         0%
MORE>>> 32 +
   NODE:        NP.NP^NODE
   EXTSWAP
   SWAP
   MONNOM       ON            MONQAT       ON         MONSTATES     ON
   DD           30                         STD        30
   SERVERCLASS  SERVER-NCPI-10             PATHMON    $B1PM
   NOMPAGES     2048                       CJPAGES    2048
   NOMA                                    NOMB
   NOMC                                    NOMTODISK  OFF
   CJA          $NEAPAY.B10NCJA              CJB        $NEAPAY.B10NCJB
   CJC          $NEAPAY.B10NCJC              CJ         ON
   LOGFILE      $CB24                      ALTLOGFILE $0
   STARTOPTIONS NP.$NEAPAY.B24EXEC.L1CONF


MORE>>> 32 +
   NODE:        NP.NP^NODE
   PAYLOADPAGES 0          PAYLOADTIMEOUT  200        MSGPRIORITY    0
   MSGTIMEOUT   OFF        MAXLARGEMSGSIZE 0
   MEMFRAGPAGES 1600
MORE>>> 32 +
   NODE:        NP.NP^NODE
   AUDITA       $NEAPAY.B24TRACE.N10AUDC
   AUDITB       $NEAPAY.B24TRACE.N10AUDA
   AUDITC       $NEAPAY.B24TRACE.N10AUDB
   ADEXTENT     128                  ADMAXEXTENTS     100
   LASTAT       OFF                  SASTAT           OFF
   AUDIT        OFF                  AUDITIO         NOWAIT
   REALTIMEAUD  ON
   AUDERROR     CONTINUE ON AUDIT SWITCH ERROR
MORE>>> 32 +
   NODE: NP.NP^NODE                  NODEABNORMAL ON  NODEAVAIL     OFF
   NODECONFIG    OFF NODEDEBUG     ON  NODEDIAG     ON  NODEINFO      OFF
   NODEOTHER     OFF NODETHRESHOLD ON  NODEUNAVAIL  OFF
   LINEABNORMAL  ON  LINEAVAIL     OFF LINECONFIG   OFF LINEDEBUG     ON
   LINEDIAG      ON  LINEINFO      OFF LINEOTHER    OFF LINESUPP      ON
   LINETHRESHOLD ON  LINEUNAVAIL   ON
   STAABNORMAL   ON  STAAVAIL      OFF STACONFIG    OFF STADEBUG      ON
   STADIAG       ON  STAINFO       OFF STAOTHER     OFF STASUSPENDED  ON
   STATHRESHOLD  ON  STAUNAVAIL    OFF
   PROABNORMAL   ON  PROAVAIL      OFF PROCONFIG    OFF PRODEBUG      ON
   PRODIAG       ON  PROINFO       OFF PROOTHER     OFF PROTHRESHOLD  ON
   PROUNAVAIL    OFF
   LINKABNORMAL  ON  LINKAVAIL     OFF LINKCONFIG   OFF LINKDEBUG     ON
   LINKDIAG      ON  LINKINFO      OFF LINKOTHER    OFF LINKTHRESHOLD ON
   LINKUNAVAIL   OFF
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