Systemtap filghtrecorder over network

[Jelle Smet]

On 22.10.2012 16:06, fche@redhat.com wrote:

Yeah, I see, but that's not what I was looking for.
This approach is difficult to scale when dealing with many nodes.
It would be practical to let stap run on a machine dumping its data
over an UDP socket just like one would pipe its stdout through
netcat.  Having this functionality built in however would be nice.

Cheers,

Jelle

> Jelle Smet <systemtap@smetj.net> writes:
>
>> [...] I was wondering whether the flight recorder mode has besides a
>> "to file" and "in memory" function also a way to transmit its output
>> over network?
>
> "over the network" sounds like ordinary remote invocation, such as 
> with
>
> % stap --remote=USER@HOST foo.stp
>
> which uses ssh and a remote systemtap-runtime to run foo.stp and
> transport
> the output back.
>
> - FChE

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