serial device packet data monitoring modbus protocol recording decoding

This release adds more filtering options to Request View (Serial & Bridge), URB View (USB) and Packet View. It also changes the default color settings for Request View and URB View data visualizers.

Default filtering has also been modified: it now does not display Read DOWN and Write UP requests by default. You can change this behavior in the Tools » Settings… » Filtering Tab.

This new data visualizer, called Raw Data View is similar to Serial Monitor's Data View in that it also has two windows, one of which displays data sent to a device, and another one displays data received from a device. All subsequent packets are concatenated into a single data stream, which is displayed as a sequence of hexadecimal, decimal, octal or binary numbers. Alternatively, the stream may be displayed as a sequence of floating-point numbers with single or double precision.

This new data visualizer is very flexible and allows you to customize both its layout and appearence. It has a built-in pattern coloring, powerful find capabilities and Clipboard/exporting support.

• MODBUS View
• Request View (Serial, Bridge)
• Data View
• PPP View

Device Monitoring Studio version 5.22 introduces new data visualizer – Serial PPP View. It can be used to decode Point-to-Point Protocol packets, as well as a number of packets that can be encapsulated in PPP packets. The current version of the visualizer supports the following protocols:

1. Novell IPX
2. OSI Network Layer Control Protocol
3. DECnet Phase IV Control Protocol
4. Appletalk Control Protocol
5. Link Control Protocol
6. Password Authentication Protocol
7. Link Quality Report
8. Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
9. Multilink Protocol
10. Compression Control Protocol
11. Extensible Authentication Protocol
12. NETBIOS Protocol

There has always been a feature in the Device Monitoring Studio, called "Data Processing". It could be and still can be used to control the data processing policy. You can trade disk space usage for a session history length. More disk space you allow Device Monitoring Studio to use, more older session packets are available for you.

Version 5.22 introduces an automatic data policy management for monitoring sessions. If only Logging and/or Statistics visualizer are configured for the monitoring session, it is forced to low disk space usage policy. If any other visualizer is configured for the monitoring session, it falls back to the setting, defined by the user.

Device Monitoring Studio now fully supports 64-bit operating systems, including Windows XP x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition and Windows Vista x64 Edition.

All Device Monitoring Studio binaries were ported to 64-bit (not only filter drivers), resulting in much better performance and scalability. The single installation package is used to install application on 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.

Please see the included release notes for previous version compatibility issues.