Displaying the server information table (track)

Applications need to know about the services available on a network and the address through which their services can be accessed. SAP agents maintain this information in the server information table. It provides clients with the addresses of all the servers on the internetwork. For more information about the server information table, see ``Service advertising''.

track can monitor the current state of the server information table. The NetWare SAP Monitor and showsvcs can list selected information from the server information table that you can use to monitor and validate the network names, addresses, and services offered by servers on the network.

To display the information currently in the server information table, run track with the command line:

track tables

track writes the contents of the server information table to /etc/ipx.d/sapd.out.

The output from track looks like this:

   TIGER  Type: 009E Hops: 0001 Address:  00000020 000000000001 8063
   TIGER  Hops: 0001 Timer: 0001 connectedLan: 0001 10005AAC41B2
   

   DEMING  Type: 009E Hops: 0002 Address:  00000040 000000000001 8063
   DEMING  Hops: 0001 Timer: 0001 connectedLan: 0001 10005AAC41B2
   

   OPUS  Type: 009E Hops: 0001 Address:  00000060 000000000001 8063
   OPUS  Hops: 0001 Timer: 0001 connectedLan: 0001 10005AAC41B2
   

   CALVIN  Type: 009E Hops: 0000 Address:  00000080 000000000001 8063
   CALVIN  Hops: 0001 Timer: 0001 connectedLan: 0001 10005AAC41B2
   

   FRED  Type: 0004 Hops: 0001 Address:  00000098 000000000001 0451
   FRED  Hops: 0001 Timer: 0001 connectedLan: 0001 10005AAC41B2
   

   Type 009Eh Count 4
   Type 0004h Count 1
   total number of server types known 5

Type

Novell object type of the service being advertised. For example, 9E advertises an NVT server, 4 advertises a Novell file server. For more information on Novell object types, see ``Novell object types''.

Hops

The first hop value indicates the number of hops to the advertised server. The second hop value indicates the number of hops to the machine that was the source of the hops information.

Address

IPX address of the advertised server. The first number is the network number. The second number is the node number. The third number is the socket number.

Timer

Time in ticks to reach the advertised server.

connectedLan

Address of the connected LAN segment.

This output provides information about the services offered across the network and the location of these services. To obtain more information about these services with the NetWare SAP Monitor and showsvcs utilities, see ``Displaying available NetWare services (showsvcs)''.