In addition to the standard animation capabilities provided by Rational Rhapsody, the MicroC profile includes a feature called target monitoring. Underlying this feature is the assumption that you are using the MicroC profile to develop applications for systems with minimal resources. The target monitoring feature provides a stripped-down version of the standard animation feature, tailored to systems with minimal resources.
In addition, the target monitoring feature is designed to work with multiple communication protocols, beyond the TCP/IP capabilities provided by the standard animation feature.
With target monitoring you can monitor the status of the application running on the target, but it does not allow you to provide input to the application. Since communication is only one way, this feature requires only minimal instrumentation code in the application you are developing.