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Transaction and Buffer Traces

CA NetSpy can trace transactions and individual PIUs that are sent to and received from terminals in your network. The following types of traces are available:

• Transaction
• Buffer

Transaction Traces

Transaction traces are traces of entire transactions, from the beginning of the transaction to the end of transmission (EOT) character. The following types of transaction traces are available:

• Exception Traces

  Traces only those transactions that exceed one or more thresholds that you specify. Alerts are sent when exception traces occur.

• Transaction-all Traces

  Traces all transactions.

Buffer Traces

Buffer traces track all individual PIUs, whether or not they are part of transactions (including unsolicited writes). Buffer trace records are written if the trace buffer is full or buffer tracing stops for all terminals and applications.