1. Preface

1.1. About The OpenSplice Tuner Guide

The Tuner Guide describes the OpenSplice Tuner features and how they should be used. The OpenSplice Tuner is included with the OpenSplice product.

The OpenSplice Tuner provides facilities for monitoring and controlling OpenSplice and the applications that use OpenSplice for the distribution of data.

1.2. Intended Audience

The Tuner Guide is intended to be used by all OpenSplice users, including programmers, testers, system designers and system integrators.

1.3. Organisation

This Guide is organised in two parts.

The Introduction provides a brief, high-level description of the OpenSplice Tuner.

The main section, Using the OpenSplice Tuner, describes how to use the OpenSplice Tuner.

1.4. Conventions

The icons shown below are used in the OpenSplice product documentation to help readers to quickly identify information relevant to their specific use of OpenSplice.

Icon	Meaning
	Item of special significance or where caution needs to be taken.
	Item contains helpful hint or special information.
	Information applies to Windows (e.g. XP, 2003, Windows 7) only.
	Information applies to Unix-based systems (e.g. Solaris) only.
	Information applies to Linux-based systems (e.g. Ubuntu) only.
	C language specific.
	C++ language specific.
	C# language specific.
	Java language specific.