int6klog(1) Qualcomm Atheros Open Powerline Toolkit int6klog(1)
NAME
int6klog - Qualcomm Atheros Log Retrieval Utility
SYNOPSIS
int6klog [options] [device] [device] [...] [>stdout]
DESCRIPTION
Read and print the device watchdog and checkpoint report on stdout for subsequent analysis by Atheros Technical Support.
Report output is in XML format and contains base-64 encoded binary data returned by the device. Aside from the XML tags,
output is not in human readable format.
This program is part of the Qualcomm Atheros Powerline Toolkit. See the AMP man page for an overview and installation
instructions.
OPTIONS
-C Return customer log. This option has no effect unless used with option -r and is for EoC only.
-c Clear report. This option is independent of options -r and -C.
-e Redirects stderr messages to stdout. By convention status and error messages are printed on stderr while primary
program output is printed on stdout. This option prints all output on stdout in cases where this is desired.
-f Specifies the output format. Possible values are "xml" and "raw". "xml" will output the watchdog and checkpoint
log in the customer XML xlog format. "raw" will output the watchdog log in the Engineering Device Manager .log
format.
-i interface
Select the host Ethernet interface. All requests are sent via this host interface and only reponses received via
this host interface are recognized. The default interface is eth1 because most people use eth0 as their principle
network connection; however, if environment string "PLC" is defined then it takes precedence over the default
interface. This option then takes precedence over either default.
-q Suppresses status messages on stderr.
-r Read watchdog log. This is not the default option and must be specified when needed.
-v Print additional information on stdout. In particular, this option dumps incoming and outgoing packets which can
be saved as text files for reference.
-?,--help
Print program help summary on stdout. This option takes precedence over other options on the command line.
-?,--version
Print program version information on stdout. This option takes precedence over other options on the command line.
Use this option when sending screen dumps to Atheros Technical Support so that they know exactly which version of
the Linux Toolkit you are using.
ARGUMENTS
device The MAC address of some powerline device. More than one address may be specified. If more than one address is
specified then operations are performed on each device in turn. The default address is local. See DEVICES for
information about symbolic device addresses.
LOGFILES
Log files are save in binary format by default but they can also be saved in XML format by adding option -x to the com‐
mand line. By convention, binary log files have a .log extension and XML log files have a .xlog extension. The exten‐
sion is not critical but it helps us determine the format before we open the file.
DEVICES
Powerline devices use Ethernet Media Access Control (MAC) addresses. MAC addresses are 12 hexadecimal digits
(0123456789ABCDEFabcdef) in upper, lower or mixed case. Individual octets may be separated by colons, for clarity, but
not all octets need to be seperated. For example, "00b052000001", "00:b0:52:00:00:01" and "00b052:000001" are valid and
equivalent.
The following MAC addresses are special and may be expressed by name instead of number.
all Equivalent to "broadcast", described next.
broadcast
A synonym for the standard Ethernet broadcast address, FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. All devices, whether local, remote or
foreign will respond to this address.
local A synonym for the Qualcomm Atheros vendor specific Local Management Address (LMA), 00:B0:52:00:00:01. All local
Atheros devices will recognize this address but remote and foreign devices will not. A remote device is any
device at the far end of a powerline connection. A foreign device is any device not manufactured by Atheros.
REFERENCES
See the Qualcomm Atheros HomePlug AV Firmware Technical Reference Manual for more information.
DISCLAIMER
Atheros HomePlug AV Vendor Specific Management Message structure and content is proprietary to Atheros Communications,
Ocala FL USA. Consequently, public information is not available. Atheros Communications reserves the right to modify
message structure or content in future firmware releases without any obligation to notify or compensate users of this
program.
EXAMPLES
The following example reads the Watchdog and Checkpoint Report from device 00:B0:52:BA:BE:02 and prints them on stdout in
XML format. The output contains data segments formatted in base-64 notation which preserved data integrity when read or
transmitted in text format.
# int6klog 00:B0:52:BA:BE:02
The next example does the same thing but pipes output to file temp.log. Atheros recommends using a .log extension for
compatibility with the WIndows Device Manager.
# int6klog 00:B0:52:BA:BE:02 > temp.log
SEE ALSO
amp(1), int6k(1), int6kf(1), int6khost(1), int6kid(1), int6krate(1), int6krule(1), int6kstat(1), int6kwait(1)
CREDITS
Charles Maier <cmaier@qca.qualcomm.com>
open-plc-utils-0.0.3 Mar 2014 int6klog(1)