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Chapter 12, Getting Started with Xgig TraceView Working With Domains
216 Xgig Analyzer User’s Guide
If you choose to open a new trace, all your current views are closed. If you want to save your
configuration and views, you should save the configuration before opening a new trace.
Working With Domains
Domains are a set of hardware analyzer ports. When you open a domain in Xgig TraceView you
are viewing information that is currently stored in the capture buffers on analyzer hardware, but
has not been saved to a trace file. A domain will only open if you have data in the buffers for ALL
the ports belonging to the domain.
Domains are established and named in the Xgig TraceControl application. If you have multiple
domains, you need to know what domains contain what hardware analyzers so you can pick the
correct domain name.
If the domain contains multiple analyzers, the information is interleaved by timestamp when
opened in Xgig TraceView.
If you choose to open a new domain, all your current views are removed. If you want to save your
configuration and views, you should save the configuration before opening a new domain.
Open a Domain
To Open the Last Domain:
1 Press the Open Last Domain button. Or, from the File pull-down menu, select Open
Last Domain
.
2 If there is data in the analyzers for the last opened domain, the TraceView decode of the
information will display. If there is no last domain, the
Select Ports/Domain to Analyze
dialog box appears. See the steps below for selecting a new domain. If no domains contain
data or no domains have been established, TraceView returns an error message.
To Open a New Domain:
1
Press the
Open Domain
button. Or, from the
File
pull-down menu, select
Open
Domain... .
2
The
Select Ports/Domain to Analyze
dialog box appears. All Sync Groups within the local
area subnet (including any Sync Group on your local machine) are displayed in the window on
the top left. Select the Sync Group containing the hardware ports you want to view. If the
hardware you wish to access is on a different subnet, type in the IP Address or Machine Name
and press
Discover
.
3 If no domains contain data, no domains have been established for the Sync Group, or a data
capture is in progress for the domain, TraceView returns a message informing you that no
domain can be selected.
4
Select the domain name you want from the list.
5 If the domain you have selected contains multiple capture buffer segments, select the segment
number from the
Segment(s)
drop-down box. No selection is required if there is only one
segment.