The CLI and TotalView

The following figure illustrates the relationship between the CLI, the TotalView GUI, the TotalView core, and your program:

The CLI and TotalView

The CLI and the GUI are interfaces that communicate with the TotalView core, which is the component that actually performs the debugging work. In this figure, the dotted arrow between the GUI and the CLI indicates that you can invoke the CLI from the GUI. The reverse is not true: you cannot invoke the GUI from the CLI.

In turn, the TotalView core communicates with the processes that make up your program and receives information back from these processes, and passes them back to the component that sent the request.