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16. T/Mon Has Built-In Protocol Analyzer Tools

T/Mon has a built-in Protocol Analyzer and several other tools that you can use to analyze communications:

T/Mon's Protocol Analyzer shows communication in raw hex format ...

... while the English Analyzer shows communication in an easy-to-read format.

• Protocol Analyzer (Alt-F8 in the Alarm Summary, COS or Standing Alarm screens)
  
  Protocol Analyzer shows communications traffic on the selected port in a continuously updated real-time display. Protocol Analyzer is a tool for experts - it displays communications data in raw hexadecimal or ASCII format.
  
  
• English Analyzer (Alt-F5 from the Alarm Summary, COS or Standing Alarm screens)
  
  English Analyzer is similar to Protocol Analyzer, but it translates the raw communications data into a readable English format. For the nonexpert user, this is the most useful way to view communications traffic.
  
  
• Performance Statistics (F6 in the Alarm Summary Screen)
  
  Performance Statistics shows how many polls are sent and how many poll responses are received on the selected port. This is the best indicator of connection problems - for example, if Performance Statistics shows that, out of 100 polls, 60 are good and 40 are bad, you have a communication problem.
  
  
• Site Statistics (Shift-F6 in the Alarm Summary Screen)
  
  Site Statistics shows polling stats for each individual device on the selected port. This isolates communication problems more exactly. Site Statistics also tells you whether an individual device is failed, active, online or offline.
  
  
• Channel Summary (Alt-F9 in the Alarm Summary Screen)
  
  Channel Summary provides a quick view of the percentage of bad polls on each serial port.

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