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<title>Crashdump Viewer</title>
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<section>
<title>Introduction</title>
<p>The Crashdump Viewer is an HTML based tool for browsing Erlang
crashdumps. Crashdump Viewer runs under the WebTool application.
</p>
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<title>Getting Started</title>
<p>From an erlang node, start Crashdump Viewer by calling
<c>crashdump_viewer:start()</c>. This will automatically start
WebTool and display the web address where WebTool can be
found. See the documentation for the WebTool application for
further information about how to use WebTool.
</p>
<p>Point your web browser to the address displayed, and you should
now see the start page of WebTool. At the top of the page, you
will see a link to "CrashDumpViewer". Click this link to get to
the start page for Crashdump Viewer. (Note that if webtool is on
localhost, you must configure your web browser to have direct
connection to the internet, or you must set no proxy for
localhost.)
</p>
<p>You can also start WebTool, Crashdump Viewer and a browser in
one go by running the <c>start_webtool</c> script found in the
<c>priv</c> directory of the WebTool application, e.g.
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<c>>start_webtool crashdump_viewer</c></p>
<p>From the start page of Crashdump Viewer, push the "Load
Crashdump" button to load a crashdump into the tool. Then enter
the filename of the crashdump in the entry field and push the "Ok"
button.
</p>
<p>Crashdumps generated by OTP R9C and later are loaded directly
into the Crashdump Viewer, while dumps from earlier releases first
are translated by the Crashdump Translater. The Crashdump
Translater creates a new file with the same name as the original
crashdump, but with the extension <c>.translated</c>. If there is
no write access to the directory of the original file, you will be
asked to enter a new path and filename for the translated file.
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<title>Navigating</title>
<p>The lefthand frame contains a menu. Menu folders can be
expanded and collapsed by clicking the folder picture. When a menu
item is clicked, the item information is shown in the big
information frame.
</p>
<p>The filename frame above the information frame shows the full
name of the currently viewed Erlang crashdump.
</p>
<p>To load a new crashdump, click the "Load New Crashdump" button
in the menu frame.
</p>
<p>The various information shown in the information frame will
contain links to process identifiers (PIDs) and port
identifiers. Clicking one of these links will take you to the
detailed information page for the process or port in question. Use
the "Back" button in your browser to get back to the
startingpoint. If the process or port resided on a remote node,
there will be no information available. Clicking the link will
then take you to the information about the remote node.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<title>Help</title>
<p>Further help on how to use the Crashdump Viewer tool can be
found in the tool's menu under 'Documentation':
</p>
<p>'Crashdump Viewer help' is a short document describing each
information page and any additional information that might occur,
compared to the raw dump described in 'How to interpret Erlang
crashdumps'.
</p>
<p>'How to interpret Erlang crashdumps' is a document from the
Erlang runtime system describing details in the raw
crashdumps. Here you will also find information about each single
field in the different information pages. This document can also
be found directly in the OTP online documentation, via the Erlang
runtime system user's guide.
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