Developer Notes
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Collected here are some topics that may interest the megatest developer.
telemetry
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A new feature introduced in v1.6525 allows a centralized debug messaging system. Debugging client-server issues
is greatly aided by a centralized, time coherent log of events across test execution, server, and runner. This
is provided by the telemetry feature
source code call example
[source,ini]
[telemetry]
host <IP where telemetry daemon will run>
port <UDP port to listen -- we recommend 5929>
want-events <comma separated list of telemetry-log keywords
[source,ini]
[telemetry]
host 10.38.32.91
port 5929
want-events ALL
[source,scheme]
(common:telemetry-log <keyword string>
Usage:
1. Add telemetry section to megatest.config
2. Start telemetry daemon telemetry-daemon -a start -l /tmp/my-telemetry.log
3. Run megatest
4. examine / parse telemetry log