trcsess

This is a short note about trcsess. Basically used to combine multiple trace files into one using different criteria.

trcsess [output=<output file name >] [session=<session ID>] [clientid=<clientid>] [service=<service name>] [action=<action name>] [module=<module name>] <trace file names>

output=<output file name> output destination default being standard output.
session=<session Id> session to be traced.
Session id is a combination of session Index & session serial number e.g. 8.13.
clientid=<clientid> clientid to be traced.
service=<service name> service to be traced.
action=<action name> action to be traced.
module=<module name> module to be traced.
<trace_file_names> Space separated list of trace files with wild card '*' supported.

So, it clearly says that it can support separated list of trace file, but what if you want to combine using multiple service or action etc. I got one situation yesterday that some calls from application are coming from one service and that call end using some other service. Without combining this two trace file it was not possible to get whole picture. For example

*** 2012-07-17 17:07:30.379
*** SESSION ID:(XXX.XXXXX) 2012-07-17 17:07:30.379
*** CLIENT ID:() 2012-07-17 17:07:30.379
*** SERVICE NAME:(DATA_SERVICE) 2012-07-17 17:07:30.379
*** MODULE NAME:(YYYYY.exe) 2012-07-17 17:07:30.379
*** ACTION NAME:() 2012-07-17 17:07:30.379

*** 2012-07-17 16:33:07.734
*** SESSION ID:(XXX.XXXXX) 2012-07-17 16:33:07.734
*** CLIENT ID:() 2012-07-17 16:33:07.734
*** SERVICE NAME:(WEB_SERVICE) 2012-07-17 16:33:07.734
*** MODULE NAME:(ZZZZZ.exe) 2012-07-17 16:33:07.734
*** ACTION NAME:() 2012-07-17 16:33:07.734

I don’t know if there is some other way but what i did was

sed -i ‘s/ACTION NAME:()/ACTION NAME:(TARAL)/g’ *.trc

Then combine using action

*** 2012-07-17 17:07:30.379
*** SESSION ID:(XXX.XXXXX) 2012-07-17 17:07:30.379
*** CLIENT ID:() 2012-07-17 17:07:30.379
*** SERVICE NAME:(DATA_SERVICE) 2012-07-17 17:07:30.379
*** MODULE NAME:(YYYYY.exe) 2012-07-17 17:07:30.379
*** ACTION NAME:(TARAL) 2012-07-17 17:07:30.379

*** 2012-07-17 16:33:07.734
*** SESSION ID:(XXX.XXXXX) 2012-07-17 16:33:07.734
*** CLIENT ID:() 2012-07-17 16:33:07.734
*** SERVICE NAME:(WEB_SERVICE) 2012-07-17 16:33:07.734
*** MODULE NAME:(ZZZZZ.exe) 2012-07-17 16:33:07.734
*** ACTION NAME:(TARAL) 2012-07-17 16:33:07.734