HOWTOs

This page contains a set of short informal recipes to help you solve common challenges you may face when using RTI Connext DDS. This recipes include topics such as configuring favorite IDE to work with our libraries, tuning the performance of your application, or configuring your firewall to let DDS traffic through.

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How to configure Connect DDS security in Admin Console

RTI Admin Console is compatible with RTI Security Plugins. Configuring security in Admin Console will allow you to visualize your secure DDS system. To configure security in Admin Console, follow the steps in this article.
migueltorres
Fri, 04/05/2019 - 01:18
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How to determine with Wireshark when discovery is completed

This document describes how to check when the discovery process is completed. The tool that is going to be used is Wireshark. Before the analysis, these are some links that are of interest:

Francisco Porcel
Wed, 10/17/2018 - 01:12
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Cleaning up DDS Entities in the Modern C++ API

he Modern C++ API for RTI DDS uses shared pointer to implement “reference types,” which include all subclasses of dds::core::Entity, such as DomainParticipant or DataReader, and other classes, such as FlowController, QosProvider. For more information about how different types are implemented, here are the conventions we follow in the API.
Pralhad Sapre
Thu, 03/15/2018 - 17:27
6005 reads — 1 comment

How to change the Connext DDS Micro logging buffer size and the function to write logs and traces

This articles explains how to modify the logging buffer size and the method to write logs and traces in RTI Connext DDS Micro.
francisco
Thu, 12/14/2017 - 03:18
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How to format Discovery Data Export XML to HTML using XSLT Stylesheet Template

This HOWTO shows an utility to browse files generated by the Admin Console 5.3.0 “Export Discovery Data” feature. It styles the exported xml file into readable tables with expandable sections and dropdowns.
Enrique
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 04:57
6427 reads — 1 comment

RTI Connector: Installing on Windows using npm

RTI Connector for Connext DDS is a convenient way of using scripting languages (JavaScript, Python, or Lua) to access a DDS Database. This article describes how to install it for the various programming languages.
neil-rti
Wed, 11/15/2017 - 12:48
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RTI Routing Service: How to create a transformation plugin

RTI Routing Service provides a transformation SDK in C to support the creation of custom transformation plugins. A route can be created by RTI Routing Service. This route transforms the incoming data, using this custom transformation plugin, and then republishes the updated data. This howto describes the steps to create and deploy Routing Service transformations.
ajimenez
Mon, 11/06/2017 - 10:02
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