HP Caliper User Guide Release 5.5 (5900-2351, August 2012)

Getting Help
Several forms of online help are available in the GUI:
• “Getting started” help
Select Help→Help Contents and then choose Getting Started.
• Dynamic/context help
Select Help→Context-sensitive Help or use the F1 key. This help provides detailed information
specific to the view that currently has focus.
• Reference help
Select Help→Help Contents. This help contains indexed and searchable copies of the HP
Caliper User Guide, all of the context-sensitive help, the HP Caliper for HP-UX Release Notes,
the HP Caliper for Linux Release Notes, and the Intel processor reference manuals.
• Tooltips
Every icon, action button, and page tab within the GUI includes a brief tooltip. As your mouse
hovers over one of these items, a short description of the item is displayed in a popup window.
Starting the GUI
There are two distinct but similar versions of the GUI client:
• Native (local) GUI: this GUI client runs on the HP-UX or Linux Integrity server that HP Caliper
is running on
• Remote GUI: this GUI client runs on a Windows x86 or Linux x86 desktop system
There will be a difference in both the “look and feel” and the responsiveness of the GUI, depending
on your network configuration and which client you use.
For either method, you will need to choose a workspace directory for your session, or let HP Caliper
create one for you (named workspace). With the native (local) GUI, HP Caliper will (by default)
place workspace in the directory where you are running HP Caliper. With the remote GUI,
workspace will be created in your username folder in the Documents and Settings folder.
Two subdirectories are created in the workspace directory:
• .metadata, containing information that the GUI needs as an Eclipse application
• Default_Project (native mode) or Default Project (client mode), which is a
placeholder project folder
Native (Local) GUI
This is the simpler method. At a shell prompt on the Integrity server where the measurements will
be made, enter:
$ caliper –g [--jre path]
This starts the GUI in its own X11 window. This window can be displayed directly on the server’s
console or on a remote system that supports the X11 Windows protocol. Optionally, you can
specify the path to the JRE to be used.
Remote GUI
For instructions on how to install the HP Caliper GUI on a Windows or Linux desktop system, see
the README file in the gui_clients subdirectory in the HP Caliper home directory.
40 Getting Started with the HP Caliper GUI