To commence the trace data, click the Start button (
) and switch from the configuration view to the results view in LANtracer. The ongoing trace dumps are displayed in this view:
- The upper section lists the results for the executed trace commands chronologically line by line.
- The lower pane presents the results of the trace command selected in the upper pane. All of the active Trace, Status and Show entries are listed here with their respective filters and parameters. The output contains multiple lines because the results for a single trace command can be extensive.
A right-hand mouse click on a trace event opens a context menu, which you can use to display or hide the individual trace categories by filtering.
Note: Trace data is collected as long as the trace dump is enabled. To prevent overloading the main workstation memory using LANconfig or LANmonitor, trace data is automatically written to a backup file. You set the time intervals and the maximum size of a backup file for LANtracer under .
Comparing trace data
In order to compare the results of two traces with one another, you can display two traces side by side in the split-screen mode.
- Stop the currently running trace and select from the menu .
- Load your current or previously saved trace data into the empty pane.
- Start the time-stamp based synchronization of the two traces with the
button. In the following window, enter a suitable value for the offset in milliseconds and start the synchronization.
