From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=pass (sender SPF authorized) smtp.mailfrom=sandelman.ca (client-ip=176.58.120.209; helo=relay.sandelman.ca; envelope-from=mcr@sandelman.ca; receiver=) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=sandelman.ca X-Greylist: delayed 541 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at bilbo; Fri, 22 May 2020 08:49:02 AEST Received: from relay.sandelman.ca (relay.cooperix.net [176.58.120.209]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49SlCy4dBczDqdw for ; Fri, 22 May 2020 08:48:59 +1000 (AEST) Received: from dooku.sandelman.ca (unknown [209.87.249.16]) by relay.sandelman.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DAE951F449; Thu, 21 May 2020 22:39:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dooku.sandelman.ca (Postfix, from userid 179) id CB08A1A329C; Thu, 21 May 2020 18:39:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Richardson To: Sui Chen cc: Andrew Jeffery , openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: Re: An IPMI Request Visualization Tool In-reply-to: References: <20200514135723.GE1166713@heinlein> <3d6db63b-f670-4e01-94c3-425f93d89708@www.fastmail.com> Comments: In-reply-to Sui Chen message dated "Thu, 21 May 2020 09:44:05 -0700." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.6; nmh 1.7+dev; GNU Emacs 25.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 18:39:46 -0400 Message-ID: <2775.1590100786@dooku> X-BeenThere: openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Development list for OpenBMC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 22:49:03 -0000 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Sui Chen wrote: > Thanks for your interest! I'm also using dbus-pcap to track certain > issues on the BMC recently, and would like to add support for all DBus > messages to the visualization tool, making it somewhat resemble a GUI > version of dbus-pcap. The goal would be to be able to use this tool to > investigate both DBus and IPMI. The way I plan to use it would be more > similar to how I use GPUView (full-system timeline rather than > inspecting individual packets) 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? We recently brought rpcapd into the mix; it can be invoked via ssh. I wonder if that might help you as a debug tool? > If you ask how this user interface might differ from the already > existing dbus visualizers such as bustle, my answer would be: it will > present information in a way that's more relevant to the BMC, putting a > bit more focus on BMC-specific DBus messages, such as HWMon and RedFish > DBus messages, to present information in a high signal-noise ratio way. Would this need to run on the BMC itself? -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works | network architect [ ] mcr@sandelman.ca http://www.sandelman.ca/ | ruby on rails [ --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEERK+9HEcJHTJ9UqTMlUzhVv38QpAFAl7HAzIACgkQlUzhVv38 QpBaOAf+Pf6JMg07LS72Ol4ehZgcVrCoxtJjcn9qUeu4vUQgnslxvehuPI7IN7o3 QZhF+Sj1xMkzveLZOVPS0b9VzGzG6bmWKALGb07/Nxr0Or1Mrvl0uhygLv8esu2b UzDAbfooT7xS3oL7PI++m4Lh3Lxx4gMzEZ0ZTHkf0q8A5Hrv2GZNf7ppV+XG5oBo z9aAZ2TlVL0sgz67goEYT6nhtfktbo+FZ4+uJY7VgDGH1V42lPieVlkeri2QaV6E iF4KoAnNgeaRYJ7Uilkx9zwx0z387z/VET/PVvLXG6KpUVIlI8XkPAx8zKTbjTJ7 yOyxsxfraIRNPOZwWrvTanAuCoKY3w== =2/fb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--