Features
Argos is a feature rich protocol analyzer software which are available for all currently and in future supported protocols. The XML protocol definition language also allows the full customization of input/output interfaces, analysis, presentation and post-processing. The application offers the following general features:
- It allows the definition and usage of any number of independent and related protocols at the same time
- The protocol and all customization XML definitions are in a proprietary, clear text or encrypted XML
- Any definition file can be updated and the protocol reloaded without exiting the application and lose the data.
- Commonly used protocol definitions can be reused by including their definitions in several other protocol definitions.
- Protocol definitions can be generated automatically from source code or user specific proprietary message definitions
- The multiple document interface allows opening protocol data, text or hex view
- Real-time and offline protocol data acquisition and analysis
- Configurable and long time protocol data acquisition
- Tetra PDU Document
- Integrated HTML help for application usage and for the XML protocol description language
Input/output interfaces:
- Binary and text logfiles, clipboard
- Serial COM ports, in spy mode also
- Multiple TCP server or UDP endpoints
- Proprietary bidirectional connection over TCP to integrate in user application for internal message monitoring
- Telnet and SSH session text content, SSH tunneling
- Proprietary device interface, which can be implemented by the user based on an API and the open source code provided of the above interfaces.
Analysis and presentation features:
- Analysis and presentation at bit level detail
- Symbolic and/or numeric or user formatted PDU member values presentation
- PDU filtering and filter reporting
- Colorizing of individual or structural PDU members
- User definable multi-column, multi-line tree list view for PDU, with different colors, size and visibility
- Multiple views of the same PDU data, with own PDU filter configuration
- Filtered view of the protocol data, column sorting
- Command forms for device control
- Multiple message diagrams, exportable to Microsoft Visio
- Fragmented PDU reassembling
- Save in proprietary and export to customizable binary or text format
- Export of view content, with or without PDU members to file or clipboard, in simple text, HTML and RTF format
- Bookmarking in PDU, text, XML and hexdump views
In the next pages, these features are presented in more detail.
