Serial Monitor

Serial Ports and Protocols Analyzing Software for Windows

• The unique serial port communication data monitoring solution
• Driver-based tool that helps developers to analyze functionality of any Serial port application
• It's an invaluable utility for both software and hardware developers since it helps them to discover communication errors of Serial devices and applications
• Powerful serial packet sniffer and data analyzer with outstanding performance

SerMon (Device Monitoring Studio) is a program for the Windows operating system that monitors serial (Com) ports activity.

SerMon lets you log and analyze all activity that occurs with devices that are using ports. The program gives programmers the ability to fully analyze what transpires between a device and Windows application. This makes it a powerful tool for debugging software, working on device driver development, and more.

SerMon puts a filter driver between the port device driver and user application this lets it track all data that's transferred and show it to the user. In addition, the data can be logged, exported in a variety of formats, or even copied to the clipboard.

Its efficient mechanisms help to quickly find and eliminate any software or hardware errors.

Key Features (can't be found in any competitive product)

• Multiple monitoring sessions support
• MODBUS protocol parsing, packet editing/sending
• Point-to-Point protocol (PPP) packets decoding
• Statistic graphic analyzing
• Real-time Logging / Playback support.
• Application scripting support
• True 64-bit platform support
• Generic filtering support
• Fully customizable User Interface

SerMon Usage Areas

SerMon can be successfully used for:

• interception and analysis of data transfers between any device and Windows application
• debugging any software or hardware for com ports
• development of com port peripheral hardware
• development of serial device drivers
• researching the functionality of any third-party software and hardware
• implementing, debugging and testing protocol between device and device driver
• analyzing and reverse-engineering rs232 protocols
• recording and replaying logs while debugging the implemented protocol
• spying and logging RS232/422/485 communications
• com port bridging and analyzing
• parsing MODBUS protocol messages
• debugging and testing MODBUS device
• writing and executing java scripts for custom rs232 data manipulation

SerMon can be successfully used by:

• software developers
• hardware engineers
• IT support specialists
• programmers
• beta-testers
• industrial control personnel
• SCADA software engineers
• science technicians
• systems integrators, consultants
• lab experts
• University students

SerMon usage areas:

• Fax-Modems
• mini-ATS
• Mobile Phones
• Diagnostic equipment
• Controlling and measuring equipment (oscillographs, manometers, sensors...)
• Pocket PC
• Mice
• Digital Cams
• Network equipment
• Serial device servers, NPort servers
• Wireless LAN equipment
• Routers, Multiplexers, Hubs, Switches
• MIDI-serial devices
• Multiport Serial Boards
• RS-232 to RS-422/485 converters
• Serial to fiber converters
• Network-enable serial devices
• Serial device controllers
• Entertaining equipment, simulators
• HVAC, door entry systems, bar code readers
• Card readers
• Cash registers
• Bar-code readers

SerMon Features

SerMon does:

• monitoring of serial devices
• displaying monitored packets in a table
• displaying monitored packets
• displaying read/written data in separate windows
• displaying monitored data in console
• displaying the status of modem control lines
• graphical data analyzis
• general filtering
• session recording
• playing back the recorded data
• parsing PPP packets
• parsing MODBUS packets
• monitoring of bridged connections
• displaying monitored packets (Bridge)
• displaying read/written data in a separate windows (Bridge)
• creating serial terminal sessions
• sending MODBUS protocol commands
• customizing application through built-in scripting support