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Subject: RE: log message filter in Asyn
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:27:05 +0000
Hi,

We have the same issue that Mark described, in that we're using procServ along with conserver to log from our IOCs. I agree that filtering should be part of any log server. But I think there's a place for it in clients too. For example, we already do rate limiting of alarms from records using things like hysteresis fields.

Yes, Asyn itself probably isn't the best place for it though.

Cheers,
Matt

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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Eric Norum [[email protected]]
Sent: 17 April 2012 16:39
To: [email protected] Talk
Subject: Re: log message filter in Asyn

On Apr 17, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Mark Rivers wrote:

> You can also turn off asynTrace messages for a particular device with
>
> asynSetTraceMask(port, addr, 0)
>
> But I see the utility of what Matt is proposing.  We use procServ to run our IOCs, both soft IOCs and vxWorks IOCs.  On vxWorks the procServ is controlling a telnet session to an Ethernet terminal server, which is connected to the vxWorks console port.  For logging we just use the log file capability of procServ, not a special logging program.  If a device becomes unavailable the log file can quickly grow very large with asynTrace error messages.
>
> Of course we could manually set the asynTrace mask to 0, as shown above.  But it would be nice to have the capability that Matt proposes, to automatically reduce the number of messages in the log file if they are all just repeats.

Agreed, but I'm holding to my opinion that this capability belongs in the log server, not in all the log clients.   It certainly does not belong in the ASYN layer.   In the errlogPrintf layer, perhaps, but really this belongs in the log server.

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Eric Norum
[email protected]






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