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<b>How do I run the Black Box trace utility in Windows NT or Windows 2000?</b> How do I run the Black Box trace utility in Windows NT or Windows 2000?
Symptom: I need to run dm_bb to capture information for troubleshooting and I am not sure how to do this.
Solutions: Here are the instructions on how to run the dm_bb.exe utility. This utility captures blackbox events from a Digi RAS adapter.
For Windows 2000, enter the following command line from the
directory where you extracted the driver:
dm_bb -d DigiDxbXXXX -f -cx -w filename
Make sure that you capitalize the two Ds in DigiDxb.
Where 'XXXX' = the number of the adapter which you can find by going into Control Panel, click on System, click the Hardware tab, click the Device Manager button and then expand the Network Adapters.
You should see the number of the adapter in ( ) such as (Digi0007).
The '-f' parameter makes the utility run until you stop it by pressing Ctrl-C.
Where 'x' = the channel number that you want to monitor,
channel numbering starts at 0 for the first channel. Multiple channels can be monitored by using multiple instances of the -c parameter such as -c0 -c1
-c4 and so on.
Where 'filename' is the name of the output file you want to create.
For Windows NT, enter the following command line from the
directory where you extracted the driver:
dm_bb -d DigiDxbX -f -cx -w filename
Make sure that you capitalize the two Ds in DigiDxb.
Where 'X' = the number of the adapter which you can find by going into Control Panel, click on Network, then click on the Adapters tab You should see the number of the adapter in ( ) such as (7).
The '-f' parameter makes the utility run until you stop it by pressing Ctrl-C.
Where 'x' = the channel number that you want to monitor,
channel numbering starts at 0 for the first channel. Multiple channels can be monitored by using multiple instances of the -c parameter such as -c0 -c1
-c4 and so on.
Where 'filename' is the name of the output file you want to create.
If you need further information regarding the options
available for this utility you can type the following command line:
dm_bb help
This will display a complete listing of all the options
available.
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