Remember Network Monitor from Microsoft? It was okay, at best, and mostly was very troublesome to work on. A comparison with Microsoft Network Monitor It also enabled capturing remote traffic in real time, and helps load archived message logs from several sources in parallel. Microsoft Message Analyzer 1.4, hence, is a vital component of Protocol Engineering Framework, which itself aims at significantly improving protocol designs, developments, implementations, documentation, testing, and support. No, it will not write the script for “True Detective” Season 3, someone else needs to do that!
Using this tool, you can load, aggregate, understand, and analyze massive message exchange and log data from the saved trace documents. (This, however, might be an over simplification more on this later.) It’s the perfect tool to capture, display, and analyze protocol messaging traffic, all kinds of system messages and application messages, and events in diagnostics and network troubleshooting endeavor. Microsoft Message Analyzer 1.4 is the successor of Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4. (For an overview of Microsoft Message Analyzer, go here.) Introduction to Microsoft Message Analyzer 1.4
Let’s understand what it does, and what’s new about this tool. Thankfully, Microsoft Message Analyzer makes things better. Matching information packets and event logs is a headache, truth be told. With massive number of logs to analyze, and several mini analyses to be managed quickly, you need a tool that can crunch the data, present it in and intuitive manner, and is customizable. Sadly, with traditional Microsoft tools and their makeshift alternatives, this had never been the case. At these moments, you want the analysis tool to support you in all possible ways. There are those instances when there’s no alternative to really digging in and getting a holistic view of what exactly is going on within the system.
Life of a troubleshooter in an IT team is not easy.
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