Bug 199601

Description Valentina Popescu 2007-08-10 12:04:41 EDT

I was trying to find out if the Agent Controller port is documented so I pressed F1 while on the Profiling and Logging preference page ( have the Profiling and logging item selected and in focus in the preferences tree) . Issues that I found :

1. Setting logging preferences link available at the beginning of the page is broken.

2. Navigate Setting profiling preferences link
In section 3, read this :
Use this pane to: 
- Enable or disable profiling or logging >>>>( this is incorrect, should be taken out, this option was removed a while ago )
- Change the default project name of a new profiling session. >>> Add some more description ?.. such as : this project will be used to stored the profiling data under the current workspace, if you choose to save the data after profiling an application.
- Specify whether to show helpful tips about profiling. 
- If you are not using a local deployment, specify the port number that the agent uses to connect to the Agent Controller. >>>>> Again, this is not true; this port is used for local development as well. As I discovered through trial, this port number is used when profiling an application through a launch configuration where the Hosts tab is not available, such as Java Application )
More on this : The 'Agent controller local port' preference is used when the port 
information is not made available with the profile launch configuration. As 
an example, profiling a Java application within your workspace will make use 
of this port information since no host/port information is specified with 
this launch wizard.
If you profile an application as an external Java app, there is a Host tab 
on the launch configuration where you specify the host ( localhost or a 
remote machine ) AND the port number. In this case, this port number will be 
used to connect to that host, the preference page port will be ignored.
- Select Appearance (and the items below it) to change the resources appearing in the Profiling Monitor view, the colors in the execution flow graph, and the amount of data displayed on each page of the Sequence Diagram. >>> The 'to change the resources appearing in the Profiling Monitor view' should be removed, this is not available anymore as an option