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What is Analyze?

Analyze is an Activity that displays your networking, X (graphical) display, and presence service status. It is useful to developers, testers and end-users as an easy way to monitor and submit data for monitoring/debugging networking/X issues.

Using Analyze

Analyze is a very simple Activity. All that you do is tell it what interface you want it to display information from.

To select an interface, click on the "Interfaces" tab at top, and then on the appropriate Interface icon (by default, Analyze will start in the Network Status screen). Here are (from left to right) the Network Status, X Server, and Presence Service interface icons.

From left to right: Network Status, X Server, and Presence Service interface icons.

Note that the Presence Service screen has 3 windows. You can drag the window boundaries up and down to resize the area of each sub-display.

Drag to resize the window views

Features

Network Status interface

Networking interface

This interface displays network interface data from /proc/net/dev. You should see the following information:

interface name
IP address
netmask
MAC address
bytes received
bytes sent
packets received
packets sent

X Window interface

This interface displays X window information from the libXres extension. You should see the following information:

X window names
PIDs
resource base
pixmap bytes
memory usage (other/total)

Presence Service interface

This interface displays Presence Service information, getting data directly from Dbus. It has 3 sections: the presence service event log, Activities (on your Neighborhood) and Buddies (in your Neighborhood).

Presence service event log

The top section of the Presence Service interface is a log of recent presence service events.

Activities (on your Neighborhood)

The middle section of the Presence Service interface is a list of shared Activities visible in Neighborhood view, with the following information for each:

object path
ID
color
type
name
connection
channels
buddies

Buddies (in your Neighborhood)