Comtrol RPSH Windows 2000 - Manual (Page 19)

Using Peer Tracer 19
Using Peer Tracer
The Peer Tracer program (peer.exe) is specifically designed to view the internal operations of the driver for the
purpose of troubleshooting communications on Windows 2000 systems. Peer enables you to see:
• Receive and transmit data
• Internal driver event traces
• Advanced configuration and status information
Like Test Terminal, Peer acts as a simple terminal session, and is used to send and receive text information to
and from the driver. To use Peer, you type in commands, and status and information are sent back. Unlike
Test Terminal, Peer enables you to keep a continuous log of the commands sent and the results received in a
file named peer.log.
Comtrol Technical Support may ask you to run Peer in order to help diagnose reported problems.
Starting Peer
Peer Tracer does not appear in the Comtrol
program group. To use it, you must open Windows
Explorer, access the C:\WINDOWS\system32\
directory, and double-click on peer.exe. The Peer
Tracer window displays:
Log Functions
All logging functions are found under the File
menu. To start keeping a log, select Log to Disk from
the File menu. The other options on this menu are
View Disk Log, Clear Disk Log, Clear Screen, and Exit.
Using Peer
To use peer, simply type in commands at the : prompt. (It may be necessary to press Enter to make the :
prompt appear.) For example, to examine COM5, type:
PORT COM5
To gather some information about the port, type:
STAT
This should return details about the port.
TxCPSMinAvMax Peak TxCPSInst for the last minute.
TxCPSMinAvMaxWrk Peak TxCPSInst for the current minute.
TxDayCnt Transmit bytes count sent in the last day.
TxDayCntWrk Transmit bytes count sent in this day.
TxHourCnt Transmit bytes count sent in the last hour.
TxHourCntWrk Transmit bytes count sent in this hour.
TxMinCnt Count of transmit bytes sent in last minute.
TxMinCntWrk Transmit bytes count sent in this minute.
TxMinCPS Last minute average of transmit characters per second.
TxPkts Raw count of total transmit packets sent.
TxTotal Total bytes transmitted.
TxTotalRaw Total number of transmit bytes raw data from the driver.
Port Monitor Variable List (Continued)
Variable Description