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.

You can contribute by commenting on existing HOWTOs or creating your own here (requires logging in).

How to capture traffic from the loopback interface using Wireshark on Windows Systems

If you are a Windows user and have ever needed to capture traffic from the loopback interface, you will probably have struggled to do so. Wireshark won't let you do it.

Francisco Porcel
Mon, 04/22/2019 - 20:29
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License compatibility between Connext DDS 5.3.1 and Connext DDS 6.0.0

 
We are excited that you are looking forward to working with Connext 6! 
Some users may have questions about the compatibility of pre-existing license files with the latest Connext release. Fortunately, this is fairly straight forward.
niheerpatel
Fri, 04/05/2019 - 14:00
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How to configure security in Admin Console

Note: Applies to Connext DDS 5.3.0 and above.

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 these steps:

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
7609 reads — 2 comments

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
4773 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
3297 reads — 0 comments

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
4693 reads — 1 comment

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