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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 13:55:14 +1030
From: "Andrew Jeffery" <andrew@aj.id.au>
To: "Sui Chen" <suichen6@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [Request for comment] DBus pcap visualizer tool recent updates
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2021, at 01:30, Sui Chen wrote:
> Hello OpenBMC,
>
> This is about some recent updates to the tool that could be thought of
> as a visual version of Wireshark geared for OpenBMC; it is a desktop
> app that runs on a host, opens a DBus PCAP file that can be obtained
> by `busctl capture` on a BMC, and draws time lines. It draws a time line
> graph, and draws some design ideas from other profiling tools.
>
> The tool has been iterated for a few times and recent small
> improvements include:
>   - Prompts for the user to install dependencies
>   - Ability to display overlapping DBus requests
>   - Ability go group sensor PropertyChanged events together
>
> Intended use cases:
>   - Grab a PCAP on a normally-running BMC and understand what's happening on it.
>   - Grab a PCAP on a BMC with problems and see if it's possible to
> find a problem form the DBus point of view.
>
> Some comments we're looking for include:
>   - Is the UI intuitive?
>   - Does it make understanding the operations of an OpenBMC-based
> system a bit easier?
>   - Does it address your problems when developing for OpenBMC? (It has
> been helpful for us in a few circumstances)
>
> The tool can be found here:
> https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/openbmc-tools/+/34263

I've merged this now.

Andrew