Problem:

All of the features of FSVIEW are available to you as a command line utility.

The commands you specify on the command line define the operation to be carried out by FSVIEW. Information is returned as a scrolling screen output

Resolution:

In order to get dynamic file tracing for fileshare running in background, you should start fileshare with tracing and then switch it off

To get a trace to file from Fileshare, you need to start fs with the options

-tr f

e.g. fs -s glen -sc -tr f -pf glen.pf

will start a server called glen, using password file glen.pf, trace to a file and run synchrounously.

To enable and disable fileshare tracing using FSVIEW use

admin logon FSVIEW MFTEST

server set GLEN

trace toggle

exit

This will produce a text file fsscreen.lst in the fs start directory

To get a filehandler trace for fileshare us fsview command as follows

admin logon FSVIEW MFTEST

server set GLEN

xfhtrace toggle

exit

This will produce a binary file XFHTRACE.XFH in the fs start directory, unless the extfh.cfg configuration option tracefilename is used to set it somewhere else.

You will need to use the command

Cobfhrepro2 -d 0

To get a text readable form of the binary file.

To close a file in Fileshare using fsview, use something like the following. The following is an example fsview script called, say glen.ctl

option no-upcase

option echo  

admin logon FSVIEW MFTEST

server set GLEN

server get

files get

file close C:\\FH\\XFH\\SIMPLE\\MF8.DAT

exit

run this script by using the command

fsview @glen.ctl

It will

force filenames to be case sensitive

echo commands

logon to FS using the username FSVIEW and password MFTEST

connect to server GLEN

get the server info

get the list of open files

close a file called C:\\FH\\XFH\\SIMPLE\\MF8.DAT