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avjarami f5114e9b36 Docs for new features
* Added brief description of new configuration values.
* Documenting new header.
* Describing use of features for local debug.

Signed-off-by: avjarami <alex.v.jaramillo@intel.com>
2018-04-09 21:03:31 -07:00
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@@ -166,6 +166,17 @@ The daemon uses the following configuration options from the configuration file:
threshold has been reached. Currently the options are 'drop' or 'spool', with
spool being the default. If spool is chosen, records will be spooled and sent
at a later time.
* record_retention_enabled: When this key is enabled (true) the daemon saves a
copy of the payload on disk from all valid records. To avoid the excessive use
of disk space only the latest 100 records are kept. The default value for this
configuration key is false.
* record_server_delivery_enabled: This key controls the delivery of records to
```server```, when enabled (default value) the record will be posted to the
address in the configuration file. If this configuration key is disabled (false)
records will not be spooled or posted to backend. This configuration key can
be used in combination with ```record_retention_enabled``` to keep copies of
telemetry records locally only.
Machine id
---------------------
@@ -194,3 +205,69 @@ You can switch back to the rotating machine id by deleting the override file
and restarting the daemon. You can do a quick test to check that your
machine-id has changed by running "hprobe" and verifying that a record has
landed on your backend telemetrics server, with the specified machine id.
Event Id
----------------------
This is a 32 character lowercase hexadecimal string i.e. '5de9de8d5f3c6a7d445d75ba01cc3322'.
This header is used to group multiple records by an event id. Before this header
every single record could have been thought of an event, however this is not always
the case. There are "events" that trigger the creation of multiple records (i.e.
updates). The ```event_id``` header was added for probes with the capability to
detect events and group records based on such events. This header was added to
```telem-record-gen``` and can be specified using the ```-e``` (```--event-id```
long form) switch.
```{r, engine=bash, count_lines}
-e, --event-id Event id to use in the record
```
Debugging locally with telemetrics-client
-----------------------------------------------
The function of the telemetrics-client is to handle the transport of information
reported by a probe to a backend (see ```server``` key in configuration). This
information is helpful for developers to debug and fix reported crashes, however
developers not always have access to the backend in these case users can leverage
features added for local debugging. The following is a list of steps to enable
local debug:
* *Enabling record retention*: this step configures telemd to keep
copies of telemetry records locally. To enable record retention set the value of
```record_retention_enabled``` from ```false``` to ```true```. Optionally set
```record_server_delivery_enabled`` to ```false``` to keep records local only.
Remember to restart the daemon after configuration values are updated
(```telemctl restart```).
* *Creating a record*: run ```hprobe``` command to create a record for the purposes
of this step by step guide. Once we have the record or records that you need to
capture locally you can display the data.
* *Displaying record metadata*: telemd keeps metadata of any valid record,
to display this data a new option to telemctl was added ```telemctl journal```.
Assuming that the last record created was the record from previous step `hprobe` we
can use `tail -n 1` to print the last created record only, i.e.
```
$ sudo telemctl journal | tail -n 1
$ org.clearlinux/hello/world Mon 2018-04-02 17:48:01 UTC a19a0d41ba16788881e274b19b8a1be4 5de9de8d5f3c6a7d445d75ba01cc3322 60c014cd-4693-40f1-b334-548cd932949b
```
The headers for the metadata (along with other information) can be printed using the
```-V``` switch with ```telemctl journal``` command, i.e.
```
$ sudo telemctl journal -V | head -n 1
$ Classification Time stamp Record ID Event ID Boot ID
```
* *Displaying record payload*: to print the content of a record payload you can use
the ```-i``` (```--include_record``` long format) option to ```telemctl journal```
command. To print the specific record you created you can use the option ```-r```
(```--record_id``` long format) with the Record Id of the generated record, i.e.
```
$ sudo telemctl journal --record_id a19a0d41ba16788881e274b19b8a1be4 --include_record
$ org.clearlinux/hello/world Mon 2018-04-02 17:48:01 UTC a19a0d41ba16788881e274b19b8a1be4 5de9de8d5f3c6a7d445d75ba01cc3322 60c014cd-4693-40f1-b334-548cd932949b
$ hello
```