FEATURES/CAPABILITIES

TRACE CAPTURE

• Capture trace to log file
  
• View captured events realtime
  
• Startup tracing (see below)
  
• Command line capture support
  
• New log file modes, such as the ability to append to existing trace file, or to create a new file when log max is reached.

TRACE PARSING

• Parses trace events in real-time (and displays in an integrated viewer)
  
• Parses trace events to CSV file
  
• Ability to split output CSV files
  
• Launches parsed trace in Excel
  
• Command line parsing support (to CSV file)
  

PERFORMANCE TRACING

• Ability to capture system performance data to log (CSV) file, while capturing CDF trace
  
• Offers performance object browser for easy counter selection
  

LIVE TRACE STATISTICS

• Easy view of trace statistics, such as buffers read, events lost etc.
  

IMPORT/EXPORT TRACE SETTINGS

• Offers full trace setting import and export ability
  
• Trace templates can be created in XML format, and reused for easy setup
  

EVENT FILTERING

• Parsing can be configured to stop on an event filter string
  
• Custom script/program execution can be configured upon an event filter match
  

TMF DOWNLOAD (from Citrix online symbol server)

• Provides ability to cache public TMF files, available from the online Citrix symbol server
  
• Provides ability to dynamically retrieve required TMF file online, while parsing trace
  

STARTUP TRACING

• Enables selected providers via the registry, so that the Citrix Diagnostic Facility COM Server service can start the trace upon system startup. This feature requires that the CdfSvc.exe service is installed on the machine (which it normally is for most Citrix products)
  
  

ERROR CODE LOOKUP

• Integrated error lookup utility, accessible from the tools menu, to easily translate windows error codes to meaningful text.

REMOTE TRACING

• Now with the ability to enumerate machines on the network, as well as the ability to enumerate a remote machine's Citrix providers, CDFControl2 offers remote CDF tracing on multiple machines

AUTOMATIC KEYWORD HIGHLIGHTING

• When viewer column shading is enabled, CDFControl will attempt to scan the trace output and automatically highlight certain keywords that are usually indicative of an error or failure. This makes parsing large traces easier, because it helps find potential errors faster. See SHADE COLUMNS for more information.