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Getting Started with
Remote Display Client
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Using Remote Display
TotalView Remote Display lets you start and then view TotalView as it executes
on another system. For example, if you are using a Microsoft Windows
XP, invoking the Remote Display Client (this will be explained in a
moment) displays a window into which you can enter information about
how Remote Display can go from Windows to the system upon which
TotalView will execute. As Remote Display invokes TotalView on the remote
host, it need not be installed on your local machine.
Remote Display is bundled into all TotalView releases beginning at version
8.6. However, the Client can run only on Linux x86, Linux x86-64, and Windows
systems. No license is needed to run the Client, but the TotalView
being run on any supported operating system must be a licensed version of
TotalView 8.6 or greater.
TotalView Remote Display has three components: a Client, a Server, and a
Viewer.
� The Client is a window that runs on Linux x86 and Linux x86-64 systems
as well as Microsoft Windows XP and Vista.
� The Server is invisible. It manages the movement of information from the
Viewer to the remote host and from the remote host back to the Client.
The Server can run on all systems that TotalView supports. For example,
you can run the Client on a Windows system and set up a Viewer environment
on an IBM RS/6000 machine.
� The Viewer is a window that appears on the system upon which you are
running the Client. All interactions between this window and the system
running TotalView are handled by the Server.
Figure 35 shows how these components interact.
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