[Request for comment] DBus pcap visualizer tool recent updates
Sui Chen
suichen6 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 02:00:00 AEDT 2021
Hello OpenBMC,
This is about some recent updates to the tool that could be thought of
as a visual version of Wireshark geared for OpenBMC; it is a desktop
app that runs on a host, opens a DBus PCAP file that can be obtained
by `busctl capture` on a BMC, and draws time lines. It draws a time line
graph, and draws some design ideas from other profiling tools.
The tool has been iterated for a few times and recent small
improvements include:
- Prompts for the user to install dependencies
- Ability to display overlapping DBus requests
- Ability go group sensor PropertyChanged events together
Intended use cases:
- Grab a PCAP on a normally-running BMC and understand what's happening on it.
- Grab a PCAP on a BMC with problems and see if it's possible to
find a problem form the DBus point of view.
Some comments we're looking for include:
- Is the UI intuitive?
- Does it make understanding the operations of an OpenBMC-based
system a bit easier?
- Does it address your problems when developing for OpenBMC? (It has
been helpful for us in a few circumstances)
The tool can be found here:
https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/openbmc-tools/+/34263
Thanks!
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