On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 01:56:17PM -0400, Kevin Crowe wrote: > Just look at what /net/mage.central/opt/SUNWscat/bin/scat tells you > on start (machine name, time of panic, cpu's & mem, os version, etc > all things support needs to know up front)
It would not be hard to create support macros or dcmds that did all this. ::status or ::panicinfo on their own go half of the way. That no-one has yet done this for support people to use doesn't seem much of an argument against mdb. > how it breaks things down by types of command verses ::dcmds how > it lists the stuff alphabetically. This can be pretty annoying. ::dmods -l helps a lot, though. > The analyze command quickly helps you find typical problem areas while > mdb offers no such command. there are probably some 'smarter' things we can build in. But there's not a single RFE filed by /anybody/ about what you might want... I don't know exactly what analyze does. > I'm sure there's a lot more to it than my thoughts above...but it > would be nice if mdb could have a bit more user friendlyness built > into it going forward. Perhaps the problem with mdb vs otehr tools > regarding user friendlyness is that it's dependant on ones experience > and requirements from the tool. You know what I'm going to say ... file RFEs (but please not 'make MDB like scat'). It's unfortunate that we have some divided effort on two tools that do essentially the same thing. 'mdb' is what's shipped with Solaris and we really should try and look at making it so that more people can use it easily. mdb can be quite unfriendly until you get used to it. What might help most of all, perhaps, is more documentation: hints and tips, etc. regards, john