Collaborative RCE Tool Library - Bus Monitoring Tools (including sub-categories)

Tool Updated: BusTRACE

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:15:56 GMT

Listed in categories: Bus Monitoring Tools

Most recent version:
8.0.047

Most recent release date:
June 15, 2009

Description:
busTRACE 8.0 is a comprehensive bus and device analysis tool in use by leading system OEMs, peripheral OEMs, software developers, USB developers, and storage developers all over the world. busTRACE 7.0 provides a suite of applications designed to help you perform advanced bus and device analysis.

* Capture I/O Activity
- Capture I/O activity on local or remote computers
- Allow remote busTRACE users to capture I/O activity

* Generate I/O Activity
- Send a single CDB to a storage device
- Send a sequence of CDBs to a storage device
- Perform a read/write/compare stress test
- View ATA/ATAPI Identify information

* Simulate Device Faults
- Simulate a failure on one or more specified devices

* Additional Tools
- View Device Command Descriptor Blocks
- View Device Sense Codes
- CD/DVD Exclusive Access Status

Tool Added: USBTrace

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:46:33 GMT

Listed in categories: USB Monitoring Tools

Most recent version:
2.3.9

Most recent release date:
June 11, 2009

Description:
USBTrace is an easy to use and powerful USB analyzer. USBTrace can monitor USB transactions at host controllers, hubs and devices. This is a 100% software product. USBTrace supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server and Windows Vista operating systems and works with USB 1.x and 2.0 (low, full and high speed) host controllers, hubs and devices.

Supports Device Class Decoding. (New)
HID, Hub, Video, Audio, Mass Storage, Bluetooth,
Still Image Capture, Vendor Specific, WUSB HWA Printer, CDC, Smart Card (CCID)

Complete Enumeration Monitoring.
Monitors all USB requests exchanged during device enumeration. Does not use filter drivers.

Search / Filter / Trigger / Export.
Search captured data. Filter out unwanted data.
Set trigger points. Export captured data.

Background/Continuous capturing.
For high performance/non stop capture sessions.

Performance Statistics. (New)
Detailed performance analysis for your device/driver.

Detailed Device Information
USB descriptors (Device, Hub, Configuration, Interface, Endpoint, class specific, IAD, String), Windows enumeration info.

Tool Added: Bus Hound

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:41:19 GMT

Listed in categories: Bus Monitoring Tools, USB Monitoring Tools

Most recent version:
6.01

Most recent release date:

Description:
Bus Hound is the premier software bus analyzer for capturing I/O, protocol, and performance measurements. Bus Hound can also be used to build and submit commands to devices including bus resets, from a graphical interface.

Power User Features:
· Capture megabytes of I/O at a time
· View I/O on screen in real time
· Trigger on conditions
· Build and submit custom commands
· Issue bus and device resets
· Capture the system startup process
· View low level protocol including SCSI sense data and SMART commands
· View microsecond resolution timing
· Drag and drop captured data to other applications or save it to a zip file
· Capture isochronous and control transfers
· View IRPs and other device driver packets

Bus Support
USB 1.0 & 2.0
SCSI & ATAPI
IDE & SATA
FireWire, 1394a/b
Bluetooth
Fibre Channel
iSCSI, SAS
PC Card, PCMCIA
serial port
parallel port
ps/2 ports
...and more

OS Support
32-bit and 64-bit
Windows 2008
Windows Vista
Windows 2003
Windows XP
Windows XP Embedded
Windows 2000
Windows NT 4.0
Windows Me
Windows 98
Windows 95

Device Support
DVD, CD, Blu-ray
Hard drives, tape drives
Removable drives
Web Cams, Cameras
Mice, Keyboards, HID
Printers, Scanners
Speakers, Modems
...and everything else!

Tool Added: SniffUSB

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:15:09 GMT

Listed in categories: USB Monitoring Tools

Most recent version:
2.0.0006

Most recent release date:
February 23, 2007

Description:
Overview

SniffUSB 2.0 is a minor update to the predecessor SniffUSB 1.8 by Benoit Papillault.

The purpose of this release is actually to update Benoit's prior work to allow it to be built under newer development tools. In particular:
* The SniffUSB application is built under Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
* The UsbSnoop driver is built under the Windows Vista Driver Kit (WDK 6000)

Benoit deserves quite a bit of credit because his V1.8 application and driver ported to these newer tools with very little effort.

Thanks, Benoit!

This release does not fix any bugs from Benoit's V1.8 release and does not offer any new functionality.

After making the initial port of the UsbSnoop driver to WDK 6000 (which went smoothly...) I did make additional modifications to the driver code. Most of these were to make the code more readable - at least to me.

The V2.0 UsbSnoop driver changes included:
* Fixed a small number of PreFast warnings.
* Replaced deprecated functions with newer preferred functions.
* Now use lookaside lists for repetitive fixed-size allocations.
* Removed dead code.
* Simplified some code paths.
* Reorganized code and renamed variables and functions to suit my tastes.
* Replaced driver core dispatch template with that of the WDK 6000 filter.cpp sample driver.

In addition I removed some functionality:
* SniffUSB 2.0 does NOT support Windows 98/ME
* SniffUSB 2.0 does NOT support Windows 2000

I did very little work on the SniffUSB MFC application. Changes that I did make include:
* Replaced some deprecated functions with newer preferred functions.
* Fixed some complier warnings.
* Revised the folder organization for compiler and linker output.
* Added x64 configurations.
* Fixed "Present" indication. (V2.0.0004)
* Improved display refresh control. (V2.0.0004)
* Control whether devices that are not present are listed. (V2.0.0004)
* Added "Uninstall All" button. (V2.0.0005)
* Added mechanism to pause/resume logging. (V2.0.0006)
* Added mechanism to allow the log file to be closed and deleted reliably. (V2.0.0006)

SniffUSB 2.0 now supports only Windows XP and higher.

Benoit's original SniffUSB V1.8 source and executables can be found at the URL:

http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/usbsnoop/