- server receiver host waiting for the connection, default is "localhost"
- port port number on which the receiver is waiting for a connection, default is 6666
- compression is the compression used (none, gz), default is "none"
- align is the alignment of the structures inside the file, default is 8. It can be useful to set it so that objects saving their state are sure to get correctly aligned structures.
- post_events tells state-assertion to post events by itself for recording and comparing, default is true.
- name is the name of the object to be created, default is saX where X is a number.