Tools for UCCE/CVP Project phase?

Hi, there are plenty of customer phasing/ post project wallboards, reporting tools, admin tools out there.
My compnay is looking into some UCCE/CVP Project phase tools which can help the engineers in deisgn, deploy, call flow dev, testing etc phase of a project.
Any ideas/ suggestions please?
Thanks & Regards,
Kartik Bhatia

For detail on Studio query and response times, you can enable performance metrics/logging.  See Monitoring the Performance of Queries : Configuring the amount of metrics data to record [1] for details.
[1] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37502_01/studio.300/studio_admin/toc.htm#Configuring%20the%20amount%20of%20metrics%20data%20to%20record

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    # current_pos current_status
    0xF0213000 /
    # pos size status
    0x00000000 0xF0208000 +
    0xF0208000 0x0000B000 -
    0xF0213000 0x0000D000 /
    0xF0220000 0x00000400 -
    0xF0220400 0x0001FE00 /
    0xF0240200 0x00000400 -
    0xF0240600 0x0003FE00 /
    0xF0280400 0x00000400 -
    0xF0280800 0x00077600 /
    0xF02F7E00 0x00000200 -
    When I tried to mount the output file using $ sudo mount -ro loop /mnt/odd/ddr.file /mnt/vodd I got the same error as with the actual disc (natch)...
    mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
    missing codepage or helper program, or other error
    In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
    dmesg | tail or so
    Last edited by wwgfd (2012-12-14 13:18:41)

    @chris_l -- yeah I was worried that might be the case, still I'm not sure if that explains why it keeps failing the burn process part way through?
    I've tried this and that in Linux but without much luck. I'm still quite a noob with a lot of Linux things and this is the first time I'm trying anything to do with optical disks/drives etc. so I'm learning as I go...
    The disk that failed in Windows but was 'readable' in Linux did just pass a run through ddrescue -- i.e. it created an output file okay and did not report any errors in the process.
    However when I mounted the resulting image and tried to copy the files across the first folder reported an "input/ouput error" (just using gui copy+paste in Thunar file manager)
    ...the other folders did copy okay though!
    It seems as though it's the lead-in / lead-out and disc finalizing process that are the main fail points with the burn operation. I don't know if InfraRecorder is any good or likely to be the problem? Anyway the drive cam with Nero (inc. Linux version) so might give either or both of these a go too, if they don't work either then at least I wont be short of something to rest a mug o' tea on
    @ chris_l (again) -- the Plextor drives do have a "Vari-Rec" feature which allows a user to 'tweak' the laser power / output level so I might try this too.
    @alphaniner -- thanks I've not seen this package before, I'm guessing it's a bit like cdparanoia but for dvds?!
    Thanks for the help!
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