Getting Help

Several forms of online help are available in the GUI:

•“Getting started” help

Select Help→Help Contents and then choose Getting Started.

•Dynamic/context help

Select Help→Context-sensitive Help or use the F1 key. This help provides detailed information specific to the view that currently has focus.

•Reference help

Select Help→Help Contents. This help contains indexed and searchable copies of the HP Caliper User Guide, all of the context-sensitive help, the HP Caliper for HP-UX Release Notes, the HP Caliper for Linux Release Notes, and the Intel processor reference manuals.

•Tooltips

Every icon, action button, and page tab within the GUI includes a brief tooltip. As your mouse hovers over one of these items, a short description of the item is displayed in a popup window.

Starting the GUI

There are two distinct but similar versions of the GUI client:

•Native (local) GUI: this GUI client runs on the HP-UX or Linux Integrity server that HP Caliper is running on

•Remote GUI: this GUI client runs on a Windows x86 or Linux x86 desktop system

There will be a difference in both the “look and feel” and the responsiveness of the GUI, depending on your network configuration and which client you use.

For either method, you will need to choose a workspace directory for your session, or let HP Caliper create one for you (named workspace). With the native (local) GUI, HP Caliper will (by default) place workspace in the directory where you are running HP Caliper. With the remote GUI, workspace will be created in your username folder in the Documents and Settings folder.

Two subdirectories are created in the workspace directory:

•.metadata, containing information that the GUI needs as an Eclipse application

•Default_Project (native mode) or Default Project (client mode), which is a placeholder project folder

Native (Local) GUI

This is the simpler method. At a shell prompt on the Integrity server where the measurements will be made, enter:

$ caliper –g [--jre path]

This starts the GUI in its own X11 window. This window can be displayed directly on the server’s console or on a remote system that supports the X11 Windows protocol. Optionally, you can specify the path to the JRE to be used.

Remote GUI

For instructions on how to install the HP Caliper GUI on a Windows or Linux desktop system, see the README file in the gui_clients subdirectory in the HP Caliper home directory.

40 Getting Started with the HP Caliper GUI