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Chapter 5
Tutorial
The best way to learn about Analyzer is to start using it. The goal of this tutorial is to help you
become familiar with Analyzer’s main features. We will use RTI Shapes Demo as an easy way to
start a Connext publish-subscribe application; then we will use Analyzer to analyze the application’s entities. We’ll create a communications problem on purpose, then walk through the steps
to diagnose and correct it.
Shapes Demo runs on Windows and Linux systems. If you are using a different operating system,
you can still read through this tutorial to get a sense of the features, then you can experiment
with the Hello World example described in the RTI Core Libraries and Utilities Getting Started
Guide.
This tutorial assumes you have a basic understanding of Connext terms such as DomainParticipants, Publishers, DataWriters, Topics, and Quality of Service (QoS) policies. For an overview of
Connext terms, please see the RTI Core Libraries and Utilities User’s Manual.
The tutorial assumes you have the following software installed (using the same version number
for both components):
❏ Shapes Demo
❏ Analyzer
See Chapter 2 for installation instructions.
The tutorial walks you through the following exercises:
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Setting Up Shapes Demo (Section 5.1)
Connecting Analyzer to Shapes Demo (Section 5.2)
Working with the Entity Tree (Section 5.3)
Viewing Entity Details (Section 5.4)
Debugging Object Communication Problems with “Match Analysis” (Section
5.5)
❏ Filtering the Match Results Tree (Section 5.6)
❏ Correcting the Circle’s Liveliness QoS (Section 5.7)
❏ Saving and Comparing Snapshots (Section 5.8)
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