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1. 16 32 64 135 Slider controls the time range for all charts 3 3 Entity Specific Panels 3 3 3 Description Panel The Description panel s contents depend on what is selected in the tree view There are three tabs which may appear I QoS appears for all DDS entities Shows the QoS settings for the selected entity Figure 3 5 Description Panel s QoS Tab Description Panel System gt Host siesta rti com gt Process 7472 gt DP 0 gt Subscriber gt DR Square a v gos Y a durability F kind VOLATILE_DURABILITY_QOS 4 direct_communication true kd P deadline 4 period infinite a latency_budget lil duration 0 0 seconds Y g liveliness 4 kind AUTOMATIC_LIVELINESS_Q0OS 4 lease_duration infinite Y reliability 4 kind RELUABLE RELIABILITY_QO0S i max_blocking_time 100 milliseconds I Builtin Topic Data appears for DomainParticipants DataWriters and DataReaders Shows the propagated QoS in the builtin topic for the selected entity Figure 3 6 Description Panel s Builtin Topic Data Tab Field v a builtin topic data lii key c0as0202 1030 1 80000007 m participant_key cOas0202 1030 1 1 1 topic_name Square i type_name Shapevlype ae durability Lal kind VOLATILE_DURABILITY_Q0S lad direct_communication true iy deadline i latency_budget te m liveliness 3 9 JOJUOW La uUISN E Chapter 3 L Data Type appears for DataWriters and DataReaders Shows th2. Table 2 1 Command line Options spawnReadThreads verbosity lt value gt Instructs RTI Monitor to use multiple threads according to the number of cores on the host to retrieve data from its DDS DataReaders which contain monitoring data This is typically only needed for very large systems Default Not specified use a single read thread to retrieve data at a period of 1 second Sets the verbosity for RTI Monitor and DDS 0 silent both DDS and RTI Monitor errors both DDS and RTI Monitor warnings RTI Monitor only warnings both DDS and RTI Monitor tracing RTI Monitor only tracing both DDS and RTI Monitor Default 1 2 3 4 information RTI Monitor only 5 6 JOJLIUOW La Buijs Z 2 4 Chapter 3 Using RTI Monitor RTI Monitor consists primarily of tree views and panels There is also a toolbar for easy access to the most commonly used commands This chapter provides more details on RTI Monitor s components MOTNE File Domain Actions Window Help gt cPRRSKE ES nal _ Physical View DDS Logical View ii System Description Type ChartData Samples Received Bytes Im v coolbreeze rti com v E Process Y amp DomainParticipant 6 Launch S v Topics Flow Flow A Level Level Pressure Pressure a Temperature Temperat Ea v 5 Subsc
3. button just above the vertical scrollbar allows you to choose which columns appear in the table It also has options to pack resizes columns and enable a horizontal scrollbar Note to enable the Pack Selected Column option select a cell in the top row All Notifications Table 2A Types W Warning W Error State Status E v DP 0 gt S ERROR v Entity Click here to see DP 0 P ERROR a these options DP 0 gt P WARN w Status Horizontal Scroll Pack All Columns Pac Selected Column You can change the order of the columns by simply dragging them to a new place in the table 3 17 JOJUOW La Guisy E Chapter 3 3 4 3 3 4 4 3 18 Clearing Notifications To clear the notifications select the button from the toolbar or Actions Clear All Notifications from the menu System Types Table The System Types table displays all the known data types in the selected domain System Types Table Type Name Keyed Min Serialized Max Serialized Max Key Serialized Type Code Serialized R ShapeType The Domain drop down menu includes a list of all the joined domain IDs for you to select Like the All Notifications Table Section 3 4 2 this table also has a E button above the vertical scrollbar to control the columns that appear in the table You can also sort the table based on any of the columns by clicking the column heading The Fi
4. cating as expected e E ai RA S ae yj ae rome 9 EF fae Square vp Publisher I Tune performance by cern ne Ea providing deep statis e a rama aa tics on every aspect of the middleware s oper ation ket Tine Range Ouinina s Ten ceca Manin MUI RE TURING eRe RCE MT LOR RAT Sa NT RUC i 2 s System Metrics Domains 1 Hosts 3 Processes 3 Participants 3 Topics 1 Publishers 2 DataWriters 2 Subscribers 1 DataReaders 1 RTI Monitor I Optimize integration with detailed informa tion on every DDS entity in your system L Monitor real time operation with a dashboard of tools to see traffic patterns errors lost samples and more You can run RTI Monitor on the same host as the DDS application or on a different host 1 1 QWODIOM l 1 2 To enable an RTI Data Distribution Service application to provide monitoring data to RTI Monitor the application needs to use the RTI Monitoring Library plug in RTI Data Distribution Service notifies RTI Monitoring Library every time an entity is cre ated deleted or a QoS is changed RTI Monitoring Library also periodically queries the status of all DDS entities RTI Monitoring Library sends all the data to RTI Monitor once it gets the data from the DDS application Monitoring is enabled in the application by setting values in the DomainParticipant s PropertyQosPolicy programmatically or through an XML QoS profile Refer to the RTI Monitori
5. Statistics and Heartbeat Statistics for reliable readers or writers only The Advanced option 3 6 3 3 Entity Specific Panels shows all the available statuses for the entity some of the data is only available for reli able readers or writers Warnings and Error Statuses Warnings and errors are checked for some of the statuses warnings are highlighted in yellow errors are in red See Section 3 3 4 for details on which statuses are checked for warnings or errors To clear the warnings and errors status of ALL entities in the system select the yx button from the toolbar or Actions Clear All Notifications from the menu The Common Information section shows you general information about the entity the GUID for the entity for this panel when the data was last updated and the current update period Filter by match only appears for DataWriters and DataReaders If anything other than All matches is selected the data shown in the Status panel will only include data that belongs to the matching kind that you have selected a subset of the data for the entire entity Filter options for DataWriters I All matches LI A selected locator 7 SHMEM 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7411 UDPv4 10 50 2 30 7411 UDPv4i192 168 2 2 7411 Matching Endpoints Host siesta iti com gt Process 74 2 I A selected matching endpoint DataReader Filter options for DataReaders J All matches Abov
6. the details of that entity for the selected highlight mode The Display Name Controls simply control how the items in the map are labeled or whether they are hidden Each entity types can be hidden from the map labeled tersely with just an abbreviation for the entity type such as T for a Topic or include more information such as T Topic Name 3 4 System Wide Panels and Tables 3 4 2 All Notifications Table f The All Notifications Table shows you all the current errors and warnings for the entire system not just the currently selected entity Figure 3 12 All Notifications Table All Notifications Table Show Problem Types v Warning w Error System gt Host siesta ti com Process 6260 DP 0 5 System Host siesta rti com Process 7052 gt DP 0 gt P System Host siesta rticom Process 7052 gt DP 0 gt P State Status ERROR ERROR WARN This panel has filters to include or exclude warnings errors Errors are shown in red Warnings are shown in yellow If a row is selected in the table the Select in Views button selects the entity in tree views on the left The Find button is useful for searching through a large table This is a simple string search so you must use the exact same form as displayed in the table Clicking on a column heading will sort the table by the values in that column Clicking it again will sort in the opposite order The B
7. want RIT Monitor to monitor When RTI Monitor starts you will be Join DDS Domain prompted to enter a domain ID unless f Please enter the ID of the DDS domain you d like to join Sie ae onii mn command line option oK Cancel You can also join and leave domains by using the zapre nt and buttons on the toolbar or the com File Suet Actions Window Help mands in the Domain menu Join Domain To see the currently joined domains select lt gt Leave Domain Domain Show Current Domains from the pues n menu Saving and Loading Data RTI Monitor can work with live data or data that s been saved to a file To save monitor ing data use the J button on the toolbar or select File Save Data from the menu The file will be saved in a Serialized Java Objects format ser 3 19 JOHUOW La uUISN E Chapter 3 3 7 3 20 To load a data file use the button on the toolbar or select File Load Data from the menu RTI Monitor Domain Actions R Save Data E Load Data Exit When RTI Monitor is working with saved data you will see Historical data mode in the title bar followed by the filename For example FI RTI Monitor Historical data mode C RTI MonitoringData ser Fie Domain Actions Window Help 4 gt s s BAKE 2ulias2 aaa RTI Monitor will save notifications descriptions and statistics for DomainParticipants DataReade
8. 2002 Update Period DataWriter Statistics Delta value mample statistics hows thie Pushed Count Pushed Bytes Pulled Count Pulled Bytes Filtered Count Filtered Bytes Rejected Count Liveliness Lost 8 567 A30 651 092 A 6 080 0 A0 0 A0 0 A0 0 A0 0 A0 Heartheat Statistics Heartbeat Count zfr0 Heartbeat Bytes 3 640 AG4 Gap Count Gap Bytes Ack Count Ack Bytes Nack Count Nack Bytes Send Window Size sequence Mumbers 1 A0 32 A0 269 A3 7 532 A84 1 A0 26 A0 change for the update period 4294967297 4294967297 4294967297 First Available Sample Last Available Sample Total Count 0 40 First Unacked Sample Sequence numbers are displayed for Reliable DataWriters when Filter by match is set to All Matches DataReaders when Filter by match is set to a specific endpoint not All Matches It displays statuses of the selected entity or an aggregation of all the statuses of all the entities that belong to that selected item For example if you select a DataWriter the sta tuses are just for that entity If you select a Publisher the statuses are an aggregation of those for all DataWriters that belong to that Publisher Aggregation calculation period can be controlled by the command line parameter aggregationPeriodSeconds see Table 2 1 for details Basic and Advanced options are provided Basic data only includes Sample
9. RTI Monitor for RTI Data Distribution Service User s Manual Version 4 5 RTI The Global Leader in DDS 2010 2011 Real Time Innovations Inc All rights reserved Printed in U S A First printing re 7 4 October 2011 Trademarks Real Time Innovations and RTI are registered trademarks of Real Time Innovations Inc All other trademarks used in this document are the property of their respective owners Copy and Use Restrictions No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form including electronic mechanical photocopy and facsimile without the prior written permission of Real Time Innovations Inc The software described in this document is furnished under and subject to the RTI software license agreement The software may be used or copied only under the terms of the license agreement Technical Support Real Time Innovations Inc 385 Moffett Park Drive Sunnyvale CA 94089 Phone 408 990 7444 Email support rti com Website https support rti com Contents l Welcome Zo 3d 3 2 3 3 3 4 3 5 3 6 3 7 Starting RTI Monitor Command dine Opon nenie a chert seaniy ase acer eae aaeu ee neat 2 1 Using RTI Monitor MRC OE VIEW Coan R E sateen et aiubne sn wanda an Dinas teeter Sanaa ieee site 3 2 Workine Will Pails nps R nae MG arene eRtEemoIN 3 4 Je AUG igre of G18 a CON r aneli mer pe rncrer re itts renee re ener enn etre nen eer m
10. e Example filter options for a DataWriter The I A selected matching endpoint locators are for the transports The matching endpoint DataWriter is a DataReader Below Example filter options for a DataReader The matching endpoint is a DataWriter Filter by match AllMatches A Display Mode All Matches Matching Endpoints Host siestartiicom Process 7052 3 JOHUOW La uUISN E Chapter 3 3 3 2 Chart Panel illi The Chart panel graphs the selected statistics on the Y axis over time the X axis for the selected entity You can control the time range with the slider at the bottom of the main window and other chart properties by right clicking within the chart area Filter by match only appears for DataWriters and DataReaders Section 3 3 1 describes the choices The Chart Data options depend on the type of the selected entity The number of samples that can be displayed in the chart is controlled by the histo ryDepth command line option see Table 2 1 for details To plot multiple chart data for the same entity at the same time create multiple Chart Panels Figure 3 4 Chart Panel 3 8 Chart Panel ma System gt Host siesta rti com gt Process 7472 gt DF 0 gt Subscriber gt DR Square Filter by match All Matches 10 57 00 PM 10 57 30 PM Time Heartbeats Gaps Acks WNacks hart Time Range minutes ee OC 1 4 amp
11. e DataWriters that belong to it Table 3 2 provides more informa tion on what matches are shown for selected entities Peer Level Objects You will see matching information for If an entity is highlighted as Partially Matched some not all of its child entities are not matched such as a Publisher that has one matched DataWriter and one or more unmatched DataWriters 3 4 System Wide Panels and Tables The matchRefreshPeriodSeconds command line option controls how often the match ing information is refreshed see Table 2 1 for details Figure 3 10 System Overview Panel Matches Option 3 15 Chapter 3 If the Measurement option is selected the Measurement and Scale drop down menus are enabled Measurement allows you to select which data value to display in the map Scale allows you to control the scaling factor of the data value Figure 3 11 System Overview Panel Measurement Option 3 16 e System Overview Panel BOB Highlight Mode Notifications Q Matches Measurement Measurement Samples Received Count M Scale No Scaling M Key Selected 0 Display Name Controls Host Terse M Topic Terse v DataReader Terse v Process Terse w Subscriber Terse v DataWriter Terse 7 DomainParticipant Terse D Publisher Terse v All Terse D Dwowjowiow Pub Move the mouse over an entity in the map will show you
12. e type code serialized size and IDL representation of the associated data type Figure 3 7 Description Panel s Data Type Tab Description Panel System gt Host slesta tti com gt Process 7472 gt DP 0 gt Subscriber gt DR T Sq ShapeType IDL Representation struct ShapeType string 128 color key long x long y long shapesize i The Description panel is not applicable when a system host or process is selected since they are not DDS entities 3 10 3 3 Entity Specific Panels 3 3 4 Notifications Panel The Notifications panel displays the selected entity s current status normal warning or error and a historical list of all related alarm statuses Warnings are highlighted in yel low errors are in red Figure 3 8 Notifications Panel Notifications Panel System gt Host siesta rtl com gt Process 7472 gt DP 0 gt Subscriber gt DR Square Builtin Topic Key cOas0202 1d30 1 60000107 Last Update Tue Jul 27 21 03 06 EDT 2010 Reasons Field requested _deadline_missed_status status total_count_change 20 0 Historical Problems Tue Jul 27 21 03 01 EDT 2010 Tue Jul 27 21 02 46 EDT 2010 Fieasors Clearing Notifications To clear the warnings and error status of ALL entities in the system select the but ton from the toolbar or Actions Clear All Notifications from the menu Historical statuses will never be cleared The number of saved historica
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14. els it becomes selected in the tree Similarly when you select an entity in a tree any entity specific panels are updated to display information for the newly selected entity One exception to this is if you use the pin button inthe upper left corner of the panel When a panel is pinned to an entity it will periodically receive updated data for the pinned entity even when another entity is selected in the tree 3 1 Tree Views Figure 3 2 Physical and DDS Logical Views Physical View DDS Logical View i DDS Logical View Physical View DDS Logical views F f 9 Entity Description Type Entity Description Type v 2 System v 2 System v amp siesta rti com Domain 0 v Process ID 4112 3 v amp DomainPanticipant 0 RTI Shapes De v S Circle Circle ShapeType v Topics J DataReader Circle ShapeType Circle Circle ShapeType gt DataWriter Circle ShapeType Square Square ShapeType v Square Square ShapeType Triangle Triangle ShapeType J DataReader Square ShapeType v Subscriber J DataReader Square ShapeType J DataReader Circle ShapeType gt DataWriter Square ShapeType J DataReader Square ShapeType v Triangle Triangle ShapeType 3 DataReader Triangle ShapeType 3 DataReader Triangle ShapeType v Process ID 6280 gt DataWriter Triangle ShapeType Y amp DomainParticipant 0 RTI Shapes De v Topics DomainParticipant 0 RTI Shapes Demo Circle Circle ShapeType amp DomainPanrticipant 0 RTI Shap
15. es Demo Square Square ShapeType amp DomainParticipant 0 RTI Shapes Demo v 5 Subscriber J DataReader Square ShapeType v Publisher gt DataWriter Circle ShapeType v J Process ID 7052 Y amp DomainParticipant 0 RTI Shapes De Square Square ShapeType Triangle Triangle ShapeType Y Publisher gt DataWriter Square ShapeType gt DataWriter Triangle ShapeType Note Topics and DomainParticipants appear strictly to help organize the tree they are not DDS entities If you select either of these while viewing an unpinned entity specific panel RTI Monitor behaves as if you selected the domain or domain participant above it in the tree Chapter 3 3 2 Working with Panels RTI Monitor has several panels that display monitoring data in graphical and tabular form Some panels show data for a specific selected entity while others show system wide information J Entity Specific Panels e Status Panel Section 3 3 1 e Chart Panel Section 3 3 2 e Description Panel Section 3 3 3 e Notifications Panel Section 3 3 4 l System wide Panels and Tables e System Overview Panel Section 3 4 1 e All Notifications Table Section 3 4 2 e System Types Table Section 3 4 3 e Processes Table Section 3 4 4 You can create these panels by ll Using the Window Create Panel option from the menu I Right clicking an entity and selecting from the popup menu entity specific pan els only I Clicking a button
16. l statuses is con trolled by the notificationHistoryDepth command line option see Table 2 1 for details Table 3 1 lists the conditions that are considered warnings or errors Type conflicts might be ignored if the ignoreTypeConflicts command line option is used see Table 2 1 for details 3 11 JOJUOW La uUISN E Chapter 3 Table 3 1 Warning and Error Conditions Entity Type conflicts equality comparison DataReader Deadlines missed Using push_on_write false with best effort reliabil ity or an asynchronous publisher p On same host as another DomainParticipant that DomainParticipant i Error does not agree on using shared memory 3 12 3 4 System Wide Panels and Tables 3 4 System Wide Panels and Tables System wide panels and tables show a summary of the states of the whole system 3 4 1 System Overview Panel The System Overview panel displays a map of the entities in the system You can change the criteria for how items in the map are highlighted by selecting the Notifications Matches or Measurement option A Key is provided to indicate the meaning of the different highlights in the map If the Notifications option is selected the map will show all the entities in the system and their colors will show if they are in normal warning or error mode Figure 3 9 System Overview Panel Notifications Option System Overview Panel Highlight Mode Notifications Q Matches Q Mea
17. n RTI Moni tor type conflicts are based on type code equality rather than type compatibility This command line option can be useful if you have types that have different type codes but are compati ble Default Not specified do not ignore type conflicts ignore TypeConflicts Specifies which domains RTI Monitor will join when it starts up lt domain_id_list gt is a list of domain IDs each separated by a comma initialDomainIds lt domain_id_list gt To specify multiple domain IDs on a Windows system enclose the comma separated IDs in quotation marks For example initialDomainIds 31 32 Default If not specified you will be prompted to enter a domain ID when RTI Monitor starts Specifies the period at which to refresh the system overview matchRefreshPeriodSeconds lt seconds gt panel s matches Default 5 seconds oe Specifies the number of notifications to keep per entity notificationHistoryDepth lt value gt aan Default 12 notifications Sets the period at which RTI Monitor should clean up user interface objects such as the Host and Process nodes in the tree views that are no longer current have no more children nodes in the tree view This value should be increased when dealing with very large systems where the time to complete discovery is longer than the default value of 3 seconds pruneDeadObjectsPeriodSeconds lt seconds gt Default 3 seconds 2 2 Command line Options
18. nd button is useful for searching through a large table This is a simple string search so you must use the exact same form as displayed in the table Processes Table The Processes table displays memory and CPU information for all the processes in the system Processes Table Select in Physical View Find ID Total CPU UserCPU Kernel CPU Physical Memory MB Total Memory MB R siestarticom 4 112 5 928 0 936 4 992 27 66 107 492 a siestarticom 6 280 of of Q 26 328 107 055 siestarticom 7 052 0 936 0 312 0 624 23 832 These values are valid only if the host is a Linux or Windows system For multi core machines CPU usage can be greater than 1 3 5 Joining and Leaving Domains 3 5 3 6 Like the All Notifications Table Section 3 4 2 this table also has a E button above the vertical scrollbar to control the columns that appear in the table You can also sort the table based on any of the columns by clicking the column heading For example you can quickly sort by Total CPU to see which process is using the most When the process row is selected in the table you can use the Select in Physical View button to see where this process is within the physical tree The Find button is useful for searching through a large table This is a simple string search so you must use the exact same form as displayed in the table Joining and Leaving Domains gt You must specify the domain s in which you
19. ng Library Getting Started Guide included with the RTI Monitor ing Library bundle for details RTI Monitoring Library is available from the RTI Customer Portal accessible from https support rti com Chapter 2 Starting RTI Monitor On Linux systems Start RTI Monitor using the provided rtimonitor script For example if you installed RTI Monitor in opt rti start it by entering gt opt rti RTI_Monitor_ lt version gt scripts rtimonitor On Windows systems Start RTI Monitor by double clicking lt installation directory gt scripts rtimonitor bat You can also start it from the command line if you need to use any of the options described in Section 2 1 2 1 Command line Options RTI Monitor accepts the command line options in Table 2 1 Table 2 1 Command line Options RTI Monitor periodically goes through all the monitored enti ties in the system this information is saved in its own data aggregationPeriodSeconds lt seconds gt base to calculate aggregated statistics and states This value controls that minimum period specified in seconds Default 5 seconds 2 JOJIUOW La Buywys Z Table 2 1 Command line Options RTI Monitor saves some statistics history so it can be displayed in the charts This option controls how much historical data historyDepth lt value gt number of samples is saved per monitoring topic Default 12 samples Instructs RTI Monitor to ignore any type conflicts I
20. on the toolbar see Figure 3 1 You may have multiple panels of each type open at the same time Panels can be arranged by various options in the Window menu There is also a Tile button in the toolbar RT Monitor JE E Aaa File Domain Actions Window Help Tile button 3 4 3 3 Entity Specific Panels 3 3 Entity Specific Panels The contents for entity specific panels change to show whatever entity is currently selected in the tree view You can however pin a panel to an entity to prevent it from switching contents to do so use the pin button amp in the upper left corner of the panel When a panel is pinned to an entity you will see the pin button changed to it will periodically receive updated data for the same pinned entity even when another entity is selected in the tree The entity for the entity specific panel pinned or unpinned is indicated by the entity hierarchy list at the top of the panel The backward lt and forward buttons in the toolbar can be used navigate through the entity selection history 3 5 JOJUOW La uUISN E Chapter 3 3 3 1 Status Panel The Status panel displays real time statistics for the selected entity Parent list for the Figure 3 3 Status Panel selected entity Filter by match All Matches Gi Display Mode _ Basic Advanced Common Information Mon Dec 20 22 56 56 EST 2010 GUID 5 0 seconds Last Update c0as0203 1038 2 6000
21. riber 3 DataReader Flow 3 DataReader Level Es a DabReader Presse E 11 26 00 AM 11 27 00 AM DataReader Temperat 5 v Process ID 5228 bbe Panels Y amp DomainParticipant 6 Launch S amp v Topics n SS Flow Flow ae a _ Syste prview Panel Processes Table Tables Level Level Bas Pressure Pressure oe Temperature Temperat v Publisher gt DataWriter Flow gt DataWriter Level gt DataWriter Pressure gt DataWriter Temperat Cha Time Range minutes A E E E GC SL OST Tat e DA Ts The D S A I T D eal TA E D a E E E Ct a TES mtb pa Veet CORS E tat tet tet fay A A Cet T Ret CSS IDA TE TR A AN fon fe S TS Se SA 1 2 4 amp 16 32 a 128 em Metrics Domains 1 Hosts 1 Processes 2 Participants 2 Topics 4 Publishers 1 DataWriters 4 Subscribers 1 DataReaders 4 of Monitored Entities Time Range for Chart Panels 3 1 Chapter 3 Figure 3 1 3 1 3 2 RTI Monitor s Toolbar a amp Entity specific Panels S Y o N S S SELLELE FS System wide Panels Tree Views There are two tree views on the left I The Physical View displays all DDS entities arranged by their physical contain ment J The Logical DDS View displays all the DDS entities arranged by domains and topics When you select an entity in one of the pan
22. rs and DataWriters up to the history depth or notification history depth for every object being monitored Notes I While viewing saved data you will not see builtin topic data or the IDL repre sentation of the data type in the Description panel This information is not saved in the data file I You cannot save data while using a loaded data file I After viewing saved data to return to live data you must reconnect to the domain s that you want to monitor by joining the domain see Section 3 5 Connecting and Disconnecting the Display L To stop RTI Monitor from updating the display while still receiving data select the button on the toolbar or Actions Disconnect Display from the menu To resume display updates select the button on the toolbar or Actions Connect Display from the menu Note Data samples may be lost at the DDS level while RTI Monitor s display is discon nected because the History QoS is configured to only keep the last few samples
23. surement Measurement Samples Received Coun Key Selected Normal Display Name Controls Host Terse v Process Terse v DomainParticipant Terse j Topic Terse y Subscriber Terse y Publisher Terse v DataReader Terse v DataWriter Terse v All Terse iy pwipwib g ORS DP P 6032 siesta rti com A visual map of the system The outer most box represents the host Le Topic DR DatakReader DW DataWriter Sub Subscriber Pub Publisher DP DomainParticipant P process ID 3 13 JOHUON La uUISN E Chapter 3 Table 3 2 If the Matches option is selected the map will show all the entities that are currently matched and all the entities that are currently unmatched due to potential errors For an ideal match opposing endpoints DataWriters and DataReaders must have the same domain ID same topic name and belong to compatible partitions if any are spec ified This list of ideal matches is compared to the list of actual matches received from RTI Monitoring Library to determine which entities are marked as matches or mis matches in the map There are various reasons for a mismatch such as incompatible QoS or data types misconfigured discovery peers or use of the DDS ignore_ APIs among other reasons The matches are shown at the peer level only That is if you select a Publisher you will not see matches for th
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