The Target Navigator view lists the targets and, for the connected ones, the processes running on them. Through this view's controls, you can configure kernel event tracing and adaptive partitioning for targets and send signals to processes, attach the debugger to them, and adjust their scheduling properties.
The targets and processes are listed in a tree:
The Target Navigator view lets you send signals to the processes on a connected target. For example, you can terminate a process by sending it a SIGTERM signal.
You can interact with targets by right-clicking their entries and using the context menu.
This menu allows you to refresh a target's process list, delete its connection, or create a new connection.
You can also launch a Telnet session, start a kernel event trace, capture the list of target processes,
manage adaptive partitions settings, and view the target connection properties:
The Log With option lets you run a kernel event trace. When the trace finishes, the IDE presents the captured data as a target in the System Information History view. The Add to History View option copies the current list of target processes to a new entry in this same view. From the APS submenu, you can configure the adaptive partitioning scheduler, as described below in "Configuring APS". Finally, the Properties option opens the QNX Qconn Target panel for configuring the target connection.
When you right-click a process entry, you see different context menu options than for targets:
Some target-level operations are accessible from the process-level menu. These include refreshing the process list, creating a connection, launching a kernel event trace, and displaying the target properties.
The middle portion of the menu shows options for interacting with processes. For example, the Deliver Signal option lets you send a signal. You can explicitly terminate a process by selecting Slay. There are also options to adjust a process's priority and its inherited and non-inherited CPU affinities.
Each of these process options opens a popup window for setting the corresponding property. For information about scheduling priorities and policies, see the "Thread scheduling" section in the System Architecture guide. For information about the CPU affinity settings that associate threads with a particular core, see the "Thread affinity" section in the Multicore Processing User's Guide.
When you capture the current list of target processes or a kernel event trace finishes,
the IDE presents the captured data as a new target entry in the System Information History
view. This view behaves the same way as the Target Navigator view; selecting a target or one or more processes causes
other System Information views to show the corresponding data.
To view the captured data in continuous mode, drag the time index slider at the bottom of the view. The System Information views are updated as you change the slider's position, to show the data for that exact point in time.
To view a log file from a previous kernel event trace, click the Search log files button (
In the Open System Information Log File dialog, you can set search paths for the IDE to find log files, and you can load these log files into the QNX System Information perspective. By default, any log files generated from existing log configurations that you've used are shown. To load a log file, select it in the tree, then click Open Log. The file's data then appears as a new target in the view.