X-Git-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?p=lttng-tools.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fman%2Flttng-relayd.8;h=1e1e66407172269d9c83c3fe195b7f36e50da5d2;hp=e75711a6d069ee0f6dffb2fbf5b86efa37d97938;hb=fa91dc52d62347d1c1ce56e995525f2c57adfc13;hpb=af6bce8078af432ec0bb59db4f33095c26845c4d diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-relayd.8 b/doc/man/lttng-relayd.8 index e75711a6d..1e1e66407 100644 --- a/doc/man/lttng-relayd.8 +++ b/doc/man/lttng-relayd.8 @@ -17,12 +17,18 @@ It's tracers help tracking down performance issues and debugging problems involving multiple concurrent processes and threads. Tracing across multiple systems is also possible. -The relay daemon listens on the network and receives traces streamed by a -remote consumer. This daemon does not require any particular permissions as -long as it can write in the output folder and listen on the ports. - -Once a trace has been streamed completely, the trace can be processed by any -tool that can process a local LTTng CTF trace. +The relay daemon listens by default on all network interfaces to gather +trace data, but only on localhost for viewer connections. This daemon +does not require any particular permissions as long as it can write in +the output folder and listen on the ports. If a user is within a secured +network and/or has proper firewall settings, lttng-relayd can listen to +viewer connections from all network interfaces by specifying '-L +tcp://0.0.0.0:5344'. + +Traces can be either viewed "live" (as they are produced) by attaching +to the live viewer port using LTTng live protocol, or after tracing has +been stopped. Once a trace has been streamed completely, the trace can +be processed by any tool that can process a local LTTng CTF trace. By default, the relayd outputs the traces in : ~/lttng-traces/hostname/session-name/domain-name @@ -63,7 +69,7 @@ Control port URL (tcp://0.0.0.0:5342 is the default) Data port URL (tcp://0.0.0.0:5343 is the default) .TP .BR "-L, --live-port URL" -Live view port URL (tcp://0.0.0.0:5344 is the default). +Live view port URL (tcp://localhost:5344 is the default). .TP .BR "-o, --output" Output base directory. Must use an absolute path (~/lttng-traces is the default)