Opening a Trace Connection from the Desktop Execution Trace Toolkit

In the Desktop Execcution Trace Toolkit, you can complete the following steps to open a trace connection to a LabVIEW application instance.

Open the application instance in LabVIEW before you complete the following steps:
Note If you want to open a trace connection to a stand-alone application or a shared library file, ensure that the LabVIEW project you used to build the application or shared library file is closed. If the project is open, the VI server port remains active and the Desktop Execution Trace Toolkit cannot use the port to connect to the application or shared library file.
  1. Specify the computer name or IP address in the Machine field on the Home tab.
    • If you are tracing applications on a local computer, confirm that the Machine field displays the name of your local computer.
    • If you are tracing applications on a remote computer, enter the IP address or name of the remote computer where the applications you are debugging run.
  2. Ensure that the port number in the Port field is the same as the number you specified when you configured the LabVIEW VI Server.
  3. Select the application instance that you want to connect from the Application Instance pull-down menu.
    Note If the Application Instance pull-down menu is empty and you know that the VI Server is enabled and that a local application instance is open, you can click the refresh button next to the pull-down menu or press <F5> to refresh the Application Instance list.