Monthly Archives: July 2008

SmartInspect 3.0: the new SmartInspect Router

By Dennis Gurock | July 31, 2008

With SmartInspect 3.0 we are introducing a complete new (service) application : the SmartInspect Router. The Router can receive logging data via TCP/IP and named pipes from multiple applications and besides other things, route it to log files.
The SmartInspect Router service application is ideal for debugging and monitoring complex production systems. And because the Router […]

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New named pipe protocol in SmartInspect 3.0

By Dennis Gurock | July 30, 2008

Also part of SmartInspect 3.0 is a new protocol for transferring log data to the Console over named pipes. Why did we add another live logging protocol to SmartInspect when there’s already the TCP protocol?

Named pipes have two significant advantages. They are way faster (factor 2-3 in our tests) and a (re-)connect attempt is just […]

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Log File Encryption in SmartInspect 3.0

By Dennis Gurock | July 29, 2008

Also new in SmartInspect 3.0 is encryption support for log files. It is not unusual to write proprietary and sensitive information (such as implementation details) to log files that have to be protected from third-parties or even customers.
Some SmartInspect users have already implemented encryption support on their own and we are happy that the upcoming […]

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SmartInspect 3.0: Asynchronous Logging

By Dennis Gurock | July 28, 2008

One of my favorite new features of the upcoming SmartInspect 3.0 is support for asynchronous logging. What asynchronous logging basically does is to move the protocol/connection related operations (such as writing a packet or doing a reconnect attempt) from your application thread into a dedicated logging thread.
One thing to note is that we did not […]

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SmartInspect 3.0 Configuration File Monitoring

By Dennis Gurock | July 25, 2008

Just like other logging tools, SmartInspect allows you to configure logging options via configuration files. But just how useful are configuration files on a production system really, when changes are only picked up when the application is restarted?

To make configuration files more useful in production environments, we added a new feature to SmartInspect 3.0 that […]

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SmartInspect 3.0 Session Improvements

By Dennis Gurock | July 23, 2008

This is the first part of a series showing some of the major new features and improvements of the upcoming SmartInspect 3.0 release. Yep, that’s right; SmartInspect 3.0 is coming very soon now! As with the previous major release, it will contain quite a few new features that are directly based on customer feedback. We […]

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Porting SmartInspect to Tiburon

By Dennis Gurock | July 21, 2008

If you are into Delphi, you have probably already seen all the blog postings about Tiburon (the next Delphi version) from the CodeGear Embarcadero staff on DelphiFeeds.com. Besides working on SmartInspect 3.0 (more about this in a few days), we have also worked on porting SmartInspect to Tiburon in the recent weeks.
As you might already […]

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