An IPMI Request Visualization Tool

[Andrew Jeffery]

On Mon, 8 Jun 2020, at 12:37, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au> wrote:
>     >> Interestingly, I was not that clearly aware of dbus-pcap :-) I ought
>     >> to know more, as the lead libpcap maintainer.  Is this visualization
>     >> tool part of openbmc, or is it a generic dbus visualization tool?
> 
>     > It's not really a visualisation tool so much as a script that will
>     > interpret the D-Bus-specifics of a D-Bus pcap. It's a commandline
>     > script that provides filtering based on D-Bus match specifications. You
>     > can capture all traffic on the system bus in any systemd-based system
>     > with `busctl capture > /tmp/my.pcap` and then run `dbus-pcap my.pcap`
>     > to dump the packet contents.
> 
> Is this something that you'd like to be able to invoke remotely in order to
> get diagnostics/debugging info?

I haven't needed to, but others might.

> 
>     >> We recently brought rpcapd into the mix; it can be invoked via ssh.  I
>     >> wonder if that might help you as a debug tool?
> 
>     > I'm not sure, I'm not familiar with rpcapd. I'll have a google.
> 
> https://www.ca.tcpdump.org/manpages/rpcapd.8.html

Yeah, I found it :) Thanks.

Andrew