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    DX Spectrum

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ADX Spectrum (formerly CA Spectrum) is network fault management software, from Broadcom company CA Technologies.N/A

    Percepio Tracealyzer

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ATracealyzer® lets embedded software developers dive deep into the real-time behavior with the goal of speeding up debugging, optimizing performance and verifying software timing. Requiring no special hardware, Tracealyzer uses software instrumentation to record software event traces. This can be streamed to the host application views or kept in target RAM until requested. This is enabled by its trace recorder library, refined since 2009 and provided as open source. Tracealyzer…N/A
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    Additional Details—Tracealyzer can be evaluated free of charge for a limited time. Registering for evaluation on the Download page for a time-limited single-user license offers full functionality. This can’t be extended using the automated form. For more evaluation time, support@percepio.com can provide assistance. Note: Evaluation licenses are for EVALUATION only and may not be used for real issues in commercial projects.
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    DX SpectrumPercepio Tracealyzer
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    User Testimonials
    DX SpectrumPercepio Tracealyzer
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    Broadcom
    As I said before, not only for Spectrum, but for any monitoring tool, you need to know what is critical in your environment and think about how exactly you should monitor and treat it. If you have done that, everything will work just fine.
    • Well Suited - Networking Monitoring
    • Less Appropriate - When you need to customize some monitoring and to update the version
    Incentivized
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    Percepio
    This is a perfect tool to debug complex bugs in your system, especially in regards to inter-task communication. It is also a great tool for beginners, as the documentation is accessible and the support given by the company is excellent
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    Pros
    Broadcom
    • Polling and traps can be configured to take heartbeats at specified intervals and notify on an event in real-time, respectively.
    • Topology of devices gives a high-level overview of network architecture.
    • Discovery of devices is simple and secure with the use of community strings.
    • Details can be added per device or alarm type for actions to be taken to make troubleshooting easier.
    Incentivized
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    Percepio
    • Great visualization
    • Sometimes awkward views (vertical vs horizontal)
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    Cons
    Broadcom
    • NOC
    • Data Center/Telecom
    Incentivized
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    Percepio
    • It's not always easy to include/integrate Tracealyzer in the OS build. It would be nice to have a simple install/plug n play method for our target.
    • Sometimes, the .bin files from Tracealyzer don't always work and we don't know why
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    Alternatives Considered
    Broadcom
    Other tools I have used are more server/application-centric. CA Spectrum seems to work effectively and efficiently for network devices. Notification delays can be set to grant grace periods in case of network blips or false positives, which occur ALL the time. Other monitoring tools send event notifications immediately and would clear instantly, which while on-call can wake a technician for no reason.
    Incentivized
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    Percepio
    While we started using uCOSIII for our simpler microcontroller products, we also use QNX on more complex targets (full microprocessors) and it is a much more complex platform offering event tracing, memory tracing, and performance measures that are extremely good and integrated. More importantly these tools are fully integrated without any code changes. Tracealyzer is not integrated as much into uCOSIII like QNX's tools, debugger, etc. But, going thru the manual work of adding Tracealyzer to the build, it did help us get to a shippable product.
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    Return on Investment
    Broadcom
    • Proactive monitoring for networking
    • To many times to plan an update
    Incentivized
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    Percepio
    • Positive: We were able to find some thread priority issues with Tracealyzer.
    • Positive: we were able to see timing of events in the sw/hw that we couldn't otherwise see.
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