The Consolidated Tracing Facility

To create tracing information using CTF, you need to set up the environment appropriately.

You also need to create a side file, the CTF configuration file, to define the tracing information you want to capture. For example, you can define:

• The application to trace. Tracing information of a number of Micro Focus software components can be enabled. See Components Traced by CTF .

  You can also produce tracing information for your own programs by using library routines that give you access to CTF infrastructure. See Consolidated Tracing Facility Routines.

• The severity level of tracing messages to capture. See CTF Configuration File.
• The emitters to produce the tracing information (such as text or binary). See Emitter List.