1. Introduction

Note

This document assumes you have a basic understanding of RTI® Connext® DDS application development and concepts, such as a DDS Domains, DomainParticipants, Topics, DataWriters, and DataReaders. For an overview of these concepts, please see the RTI Connext DDS Getting Started Guide.

RTI Admin Console is a tool specifically designed to analyze and visualize your Connext system. This tool can show you the discovered information in your system, visualized in a comprehensive way.

Admin Console lets you visualize your system, explore the configuration of the different Connext entities that were discovered, perform remote administration of Connext Services such as RTI Routing Service, and more.

Analyzing and debugging a Connext system can be challenging, since data-centric systems are complex and highly distributed. Admin Console provides a debugging tool that facilitates the process and helps you interact with the system. In this document, we will explore the different capabilities that Admin Console provides, guiding you through the process with examples and describing how to configure your Connext system so you can explore those capabilities in an easy and understandable way.

1.1. How to Read this Documentation

There are three main sections in this document:

  • Administration shows how Admin Console offers a centralized tool for monitoring, debugging and administering a Connext distributed system. This section shows how to use the Administration View. We will configure a scenario and explain all of Admin Console’s features for performing remote administration, visualizing your system, administrating Connext Services, analyzing matches, etc.

  • Data Visualization shows how Admin Console can visualize the live data currently flowing in a Connext system. This section explores how to subscribe to a specific topic and visualize the data through different views, such as time charts or sample logs.

  • The Release Notes describe the supported platforms, what’s new, and what’s fixed in the current release, and any known issues.

1.2. Getting Started with Admin Console

See the Getting Started with Admin Console video to learn more about Admin Console’s features and how to get started. The video explains the essentials of using Admin Console to troubleshoot, configure and monitor Connext Infrastructure Services, and how to get information about the current DDS traffic and configuration.

1.3. Finding the Examples

The examples referred to in this document are copied into your home directory the first time you run RTI Launcher or any script in <installation path for Connext DDS>/bin.

Default path to the examples:

  • macOS systems: /Users/your user name/rti_workspace/version/examples

  • Linux systems: /home/your user name/rti_workspace/version/examples

  • Windows systems: your Windows documents folder\rti_workspace\version\examples. Where 'your Windows documents folder' depends on your version of Windows. For example, on Windows 10 systems, the folder is C:\Users\your user name\Documents.