HP Caliper User's Guide

3 Getting Started with the HP Caliper GUI

In addition to the command-line interface, HP Caliper supports a full-featured, intuitive

graphical user interface (GUI). This chapter describes how to get started using the GUI.

For information on the command-line interface, see Chapter 2 (page 29).

What Is the HP Caliper GUI?

The GUI has the same underlying measurement technology and capabilities as the

command-line interface. With the GUI, however, you can dynamically interact with

HP Caliper. Using the GUI, you can:

• Set up and save specifications for collecting data

• Initiate measurement runs

• Graphically explore performance data after it has been collected

• Manage your collection specifications and performance databases

The HP Caliper GUI and command-line interface are part of the same product; only

the user interfaces are different. You can mix-and-match your use of the GUI and the

command line. For example, you can make a measurement and graphically explore

the collected data with the GUI, then generate a printable text report from the same

data with the command line. Or, you can use the command-line HP Caliper within

your build script and later explore the performance results using the GUI.

The HP Caliper GUI is an Eclipse RCP application. The GUI is actually a separate

program that communicates with the command-line HP Caliper. The GUI can run

either natively (locally) on the HP-UX or Linux Integrity server that HP Caliper is

running on, or remotely on a Windows x86 or Linux x86 desktop system. The GUI uses

the native “look and feel” of the platform it is run on. Although the HP Caliper GUI

looks different on different systems, the functionality and operation are identical.

Figure 3-1 shows an example of what the GUI looks like.

See the following for help in getting started:

• “Window Basics” (page 44)

• “Making Measurements” (page 52)

• “Exploring Performance Data” (page 53)

• “Getting Performance Tuning Advice” (page 53)

• “Getting Help” (page 54)

• “Starting the GUI” (page 54)

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