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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

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.

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

Network Status interface

The Network S

Networking interface screenshot

X Window interface

X Window interface screenshot

Presence Service interface

Presence Service interface screenshot

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

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What can Analyze tell me?

  • 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



Activity Summary

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Short description: [[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.]]
Description: [[Description::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]]
Maintainers: ,|x|Contact person::x}}
Repository URL: Source code::http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/analyze-activity
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URL from which to download the latest .xo bundle Activity bundle::http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/bundles/Analyze-7.xo
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Development status: Devel status::6. Mature
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