Analyze

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What is Analyze?

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

Installing Analyze

Analyze is bundled as an .xo. Analyze-7.xo is the current bundle. See the section on installing Activities.

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.

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.

Contributing to Analyze

Submitting bugs and feature requests

If you find a bug in Analyze or think of an enhancement you'd like to see it have as a future feature, submit a ticket here. Make sure to set the component to "analyze-activity" so we can all see what component it is for.

Testing

Please see Tests/Activity/Analyze for instructions.

Coding

You can browse the current Activity source code at http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/analyze-activity (includes instructions on how to check it out). To see what work needs to be done, look at the tickets in Trac.

Features

Network Status 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)

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
• pubkey
• nick
• owner
• color
• IPv4
• current activity
• Activities
• handles

Semantic metadata

Activity Summary

Facts about AnalyzeRDF feed

Activity bundle	http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/bundles/Analyze-7.xo  +
Activity genre	Other  +
Activity group	Activities/G1G1  +
Activity version	7  +
Contact person	Edsiper  +
Description	Analyze displays the following information … Analyze displays the following information in an easy-to-read format: Network status - displays network interface data from /proc/net/dev. interface name IP address netmask MAC address bytes received bytes sent packets received packets sent X server - Displays X window information from the libXres extension. X window names PIDs resource base pixmap bytes memory usage (other/total) Presence service - displays the following, getting information directly from dbus. a log of presence service activities shared Activities visible in Neighborhood view, with the following information for each: object path ID color type name connection channels buddies buddies visible in Neighborhood view, with the following information for each: object path pubkey nick owner color IPv4 current activity Activities handles urrent activity Activities handles
Devel status	6. Mature  +
Language code	en  +
Short description	Analyze is an Activity that displays your XO's networking, X (graphical) display, and presence service status. It is useful to developers and end-users as an easy way for users to monitor and submit data for monitoring/debugging networking/X issues.
Software release	Candidate  +
Source code	http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/analyze-activity  +
Sugar icon	+