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Naming a Session | Microsoft Docs |
10/26/2016 |
windows-server-threshold |
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Although Message Analyzer provides a simple default name for each Data Retrieval Session, you can rename any session as a means of providing quick identification, for example, to reflect a particular issue on which you are working, the session configuration, or a data viewer that you used. You can specify a session name by entering one in the Name text box of the New Session dialog.
Session names appear on all session tabs that display whenever you load data into Message Analyzer through a Data Retrieval Session or capture data through a Live Trace Session. Uniquely naming each session enables you to quickly identify and locate them in the Session Explorer Tool Window as named session nodes and as named session tabs below the global Message Analyzer toolbar during data analysis.
Prior to loading data into Message Analyzer, you can accept the default name that Message Analyzer provides for a Data Retrieval Session, or you can rename it at your discretion. After you load data into Message Analyzer, you have the option to change the name that you assign to a Data Retrieval Session by modifying it from the Edit Session dialog, which is accessible from the Session menu. Note that the session name can be different than the name of the file in which you save your session data. These behaviors also apply to a Live Trace Session.