dexplorer.1m   [plain text]


.TH dexplorer 1m  "Jun 28, 2005" "version 0.76" "USER COMMANDS"
.SH NAME
dexplorer \- run a series of scripts and archive output. Uses DTrace.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dexplorer
.SH DESCRIPTION
This program automatically runs a collection of DTrace scripts to examine
many areas of the system, and places the output in a meaningful directory
structure that is tar'd and gzip'd.

Since this uses DTrace, only the root user or users with the
dtrace_kernel privilege can run this command.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\-q
quiet mode
.TP
\-y
"yes", don't prompt for confirmation
.TP
\-D
don't delete output dir
.TP
\-T
don't create output tar.gz
.TP
\-d outputdir
output directory
.TP
\-i interval
interval for each sample
.PP
.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
Create output file in current directory,
# 
.B dexplorer
.TP
Don't prompt
#
.B dexplorer
\-y
.TP
Leave expanded directories, don't archive and compress,
#
.B dexplorer
\-DT
.PP
.SH DOCUMENTATION
See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the 
Docs directory. The DTraceToolkit docs may include full worked
examples with verbose descriptions explaining the output.
.SH AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg
[Sydney, Australia]
.SH SEE ALSO
dtrace(1M)