OPTIONS AND SETTINGS


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Click on Tools --> Options

Next generation CDFControl



TRACE CAPTURE SETTINGS

TRACE FILE SETTINGS
TRACE DETAIL SETTINGS
TRACE FILE PATH
Set this to where you would like the resulting CDF trace file to be stored. If this is not set, CDFControl creates the CDF trace file (CDFLogFile.etl) in the same directory from where the CDFControl.exe file is being run.
EVENT BUFFER MANAGEMENT
You have full control over the way CDFControl manages its event buffers. Uncheck Use Default Settings to specify your own settings:

REAL TIME VIEWING
Enable the Enable real-time viewing while capturing trace check box for real-time viewing. For this to work correctly, you need to ensure that a valid TMF search path is also set. With this setting enabled, CDFControl will try to parse each trace event being captured, in real-time using the TMF search path provided. Events will still be written to the destination log file, even though they are being viewed real-time.
NOTE
Alternative to setting a TMF search path, you can choose to use Dynamic TMF Download to obtain TMF's
(click to see more about dynamic TMF download).
A trace file path must also be set for real-time viewing to work correctly, otherwise events/buffers will be lost.
STARTUP TRACE FILE PATH
Stores the location of where the startup CDF trace file will be stored.


TRACE VIEWING SETTINGS

TMF SEARCH PATH
A semi-colon separated path to where the TMF files (to be used to decrypt the trace events) are located. This can inlcude a UNC path to a network share. This is required to be able to parse trace events.
FLUSH MEMORY CACHE AFTER CONSUMER SESSION
CDFControl can cache TMF format information read from TMF files, so that subsequent parsing operations are faster. This however, has a tradeoff of memory for performance. For example, if this option is unchecked, parsing several small trace files (20MB or less) can be much faster as format information will already be cached in memory.
LOAD TRACE INTO VIEWER AFTER PARSED TO FILE
Enable this option to load a trace back into the viewer, after being parsed to file. Select this option for maximum performance. Especially useful for large trace files.