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Remote Timeline Viewer (Compact 7)

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3/12/2014

This tool hosts the following three tools:

  • Performance Monitor   Measure the performance of an OS design.
  • Power Monitor   Monitor overall power, voltage, and current usage over time on the target device.
  • **Kernel Tracker   **View Visual representation of OS and application events occurring the device events that happened on a device.

How to Use

To use Timeline Viewer

  1. To start Timeline Viewer, do one of the following:

    • In Platform Builder, on the Target menu, point to Remote Tools, and then click Timeline Viewer.

    • In a command-line build window prompt, type the following.

      remotetoolsshell ceTimeLineView.cetool

  2. On the Timeline Viewer menu, click File.

  3. From the File menu, you can perform following:

    1. In the Collect Live Data, select the tool you want to run.
    2. In the Open Any option list, select a viewer based on the report type you want to view. Based on the selected viewer type, you can view the report data for a particular plug-in data format.
    3. In the Open(TimeLine Viewer)... option, you can load the .csv data files formatted for the Timeline Viewer.
    4. In the Save Selected Items as CSV or Save All Items as CSV menu, you can save the selected report formats loaded in the Timeline Viewer to .csv format.

Remarks

You use Kernel Tracker to view the following:

  • Thread interactions
  • Internal dependencies
  • System state information
  • System events, mapped onto the thread that was running at the time that they occurred
  • System interrupts
  • All processes and threads in the system. This includes information about when these processes and threads were created, run, stopped, and sleeping.

Kernel Tracker requires a .clg file as input. For information about creating a .clg file, see Data Collection and Display.

If profiling is enabled in the kernel, Kernel Tracker requires a board support package (BSP) that supports the tool. For information about BSPs, see Windows Embedded CE Tools.

You use Performance Monitor to view the following:

  • Remote Access Server (RAS)
  • Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
  • TCP
  • IP
  • User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
  • Memory
  • Battery
  • System
  • Process
  • Thread

You use Power Monitor to monitor overall power, voltage, and current usage over time on the device.

This tool is based on the Microsoft Remote Tools Framework. For more information, see Remote Tools Framework Overview.

See Also

Other Resources

Remote Tools in Platform Builder