Using the Tracking Simulator to Test the Installation

Follow these steps to create a simulated data feed to test your Tracking Server installation.

Dive-inDive-in:

This procedure utilizes the Tracking Server tutorial data to create a simulated data feed. It is also possible to create your own Tracking Simulator files from geodatabase feature classes to test your Tracking Server installation. For more information, refer to "Creating Simulator Files" in the "Utilities and Tools" section of the Tracking Server Help installed with Tracking Server. Keep in mind that simulated data will not be received by Tracking Server unless you create a message definition that matches the format of the simulated data.

Steps:
  1. Click Start > Programs > ArcGIS Tracking Server > Utilities > Tracking Simulator to open the Tracking Simulator.
  2. If you are running the Tracking Simulator on the same machine as Tracking Server, then leave the default value of localhost for the Server Name text box.

    It is also possible to run the Tracking Simulator from a different machine than Tracking Server. To do this, you need to enter the name of the machine where Tracking Server is running in the Server Name text box.

  3. Click the Browse button and navigate to your tutorial data folder where your taxi.xml file resides.
  4. Select taxi.xml and click Open.

    The .xml file with its full path appears in the Source File field of the simulator.

  5. In the Data Rate field, type 500 as the number of milliseconds you want between data messages. At this data rate, two taxi locations per second will be drawn on the map in a connected client application.
  6. Check the Continuous Loop check box so that the sample data will repeat and simulate a continuous real-time data feed.
  7. Click Start.

    The simulated data begins flowing. Notice that a counter in the lower right corner of the dialog box keeps track of the total number of messages that have been published.

  8. To confirm that the simulated data feed is being received by Tracking Server, click on the Connections tab of Tracking Server Manager and use the F5 key to refresh the display.

Congratulations! If you have completed all these steps, then you have successfully verified your Tracking Server installation.


Published 7/8/2010