Fileshare clients log messages returned from CCI in both the fhredir.msg and fhneterr.log files in the current directory. For example, an entry from fhredir.cfg CCI: 970116 15183855 0009 07 CCIAPPC failed to allocate an APPC session, ensure that Local LU is defined Column 2 and 3 gives the date and time stamp of the error. Column 4 (in this case 0009) gives the CCI error code Column 6 gives the CCI error message returned by CCI-GETERROR
Events can be viewed using the Microsoft NT Event Viewer (in the Administrative Tools(Common) program folder). In the Event Viewer select Log menu and then menu item Application. This will then display the Application Log. MS SNA Server events are prefixed with SNA. SNA Base events originate from the SNA Base Service and describe events concerning the operation of SNA Server itself. SNA APPC Application events are generated by CCIAPPC calling the APPC interface using CPI-C (Common Programming Interface - Communications).
provides tracing of CPI-C and APPC interface calls made by CCIAPPC. Start the SNA Server Trace program from the Microsoft SNA Server(Common) program folder. Select the SNA Applications Service Name . Select APPC API and CPI-C API for Client API Tracing. Select OK to activate the trace settings. To disable tracing select Clear at which point the trace file buffers are stored on disk. Trace files are plain text, have extension .TRC and are generated in the traces directory of the MS SNA Server client installation.