XenaManager User Manual

Release:

105

Version:

105

Date:

Mar 13, 2026

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Table of Contents

• 1. Overview
• 2. Installation and Upgrade
  • 2.1. Installation
  • 2.2. Upgrade Chassis
• 3. Getting Started
  • 3.1. Getting Started with Traffic Generation & Analysis
    • 3.1.1. Add Chassis
    • 3.1.2. Configure Module
    • 3.1.3. Add Port
    • 3.1.4. Configure Port
    • 3.1.5. Add Stream
    • 3.1.6. Configure Stream
    • 3.1.7. Set Up Simple Bidirectional Traffic
    • 3.1.8. Stream Scheduler
    • 3.1.9. Filters
    • 3.1.10. Capture
    • 3.1.11. Histogram
    • 3.1.12. Global Statistics
    • 3.1.13. Logging and Reporting
    • 3.1.14. Statistics Charting
  • 3.2. Getting Started with Network Impairment
    • 3.2.1. Configure Chimera Module
    • 3.2.2. Add Chimera Port
    • 3.2.3. Enable Impairment
    • 3.2.4. Configure Flow Filter
    • 3.2.5. Configure Flow Impairments
    • 3.2.6. Chimera Statistics
• 4. General
  • 4.1. Chassis Management
    • 4.1.1. General
    • 4.1.2. Troubleshooting
    • 4.1.3. Software Maintenance Activation
  • 4.2. Chassis and Module Firmware Compatibility
  • 4.3. Chassis Time Synchronization
    • 4.3.1. Overview
    • 4.3.2. Service and License Control
    • 4.3.3. Test Module Configuration
  • 4.4. Testbed Management
    • 4.4.1. Configuration Hierarchy
    • 4.4.2. Setting Current Testbed
    • 4.4.3. Creating Testbed
    • 4.4.4. Adding and Removing Testbed Ports
    • 4.4.5. Editing Testbed
    • 4.4.6. Removing Testbed
  • 4.5. Resource Management
    • 4.5.1. Chassis Resources
    • 4.5.2. Reservation Mechanism
    • 4.5.3. Reservation Hierarchy
    • 4.5.4. Reserving Resource
    • 4.5.5. Releasing Resource
    • 4.5.6. Relinquish Resource
    • 4.5.7. Handling Multiple Resources
  • 4.6. Ribbon Menu
    • 4.6.1. Edit Menu
    • 4.6.2. Operations Menu
    • 4.6.3. View Menu
    • 4.6.4. Options Menu
    • 4.6.5. Tools Menu
    • 4.6.6. Minimizing Ribbon
    • 4.6.7. Additional Features
  • 4.7. Saving and Loading Configuration
    • 4.7.1. Working With Test Port
    • 4.7.2. Working With Test Module
    • 4.7.3. Working With Testbed
  • 4.8. UI Customization
    • 4.8.1. Docking Panels
    • 4.8.2. Docking Positions
    • 4.8.3. Moving Docking Panels
    • 4.8.4. Positioning Panels
    • 4.8.5. Floating Panels
    • 4.8.6. Hiding Panels
    • 4.8.7. Restoring Default Layout
  • 4.9. CLI Script Client
  • 4.10. Different Types Of Xena Configuration Files
• 5. TG and L1
  • 5.1. Overview
    • 5.1.1. General Purpose Tab Panels
    • 5.1.2. Selected Resource Panels
    • 5.1.3. Testbed Centric Panels
  • 5.2. Available Resources Panel
    • 5.2.1. Testbed Selector
    • 5.2.2. Resource Tree View
    • 5.2.3. Toolbar Options
    • 5.2.4. Show Only Used Ports
    • 5.2.5. Reserve Used Ports
    • 5.2.6. Release All My Resources
    • 5.2.7. Tree View Columns
    • 5.2.8. Multiple Selections
    • 5.2.9. Right-click Options
  • 5.3. Resource Properties
    • 5.3.1. Overview
    • 5.3.2. Chassis Properties
    • 5.3.3. Module Properties
    • 5.3.4. Port Properties
    • 5.3.5. Stream Properties
  • 5.4. Port Statistics
    • 5.4.1. Port Transmit Statistics
    • 5.4.2. Port Receive Statistics
  • 5.5. Port Configuration Grid
    • 5.5.1. Grid Operations
  • 5.6. Stream Configuration Grid
    • 5.6.1. Accessing the Packet Header Editor
    • 5.6.2. Grid Operations
  • 5.7. Global Statistics
    • 5.7.1. Overview
    • 5.7.2. Statistics Tabs
    • 5.7.3. Latency and Jitter
  • 5.8. Filters
    • 5.8.1. Overview
    • 5.8.2. Filter Details
    • 5.8.3. Using Filters
  • 5.9. Capture
    • 5.9.1. Overview
    • 5.9.2. Configuration
  • 5.10. Histograms
    • 5.10.1. Overview
    • 5.10.2. Configuration
    • 5.10.3. Histogram Results
  • 5.11. Gauge/Meter
    • 5.11.1. Overview
    • 5.11.2. Configuration
    • 5.11.3. Gauge Menu
  • 5.12. Event Log
    • 5.12.1. Event Types
    • 5.12.2. Event States
    • 5.12.3. Event Monitoring
    • 5.12.4. Event Columns
    • 5.12.5. Event Log Management
  • 5.13. Communication Trace
    • 5.13.1. Trace Format
    • 5.13.2. Available Columns
    • 5.13.3. Filtering
    • 5.13.4. Performance Impact
  • 5.14. Logging and Reporting
    • 5.14.1. Overview
    • 5.14.2. Controlling Logging State
    • 5.14.3. Output Formats
  • 5.15. Statistics Charting
    • 5.15.1. Overview
    • 5.15.2. Charting Details
    • 5.15.3. Chart Control
    • 5.15.4. Visual Aspects
  • 5.16. Stream Scheduler
    • 5.16.1. Overview
  • 5.17. Stream Wizard
    • 5.17.1. Overview
    • 5.17.2. Getting Started
    • 5.17.3. Detailed Information
  • 5.18. Replay PCAP File
    • 5.18.1. Comparing Replayed with Original PCAP
• 6. Impairment
  • 6.1. Overview
    • 6.1.1. CLI Script Interface
    • 6.1.2. Ethernet Packet Forwarding
    • 6.1.3. Chimera Impairment Pipeline
  • 6.2. Latency / Jitter Explained
    • 6.2.1. Extended Timing Mode
    • 6.2.2. Minimal Latency
    • 6.2.3. Maximum Latency (without packet loss)
    • 6.2.4. Maximum latency (Reduced Bandwidth Latency)
    • 6.2.5. Latency and Multiple Flows
  • 6.3. Module Properties
    • 6.3.1. SyncE
    • 6.3.2. Emulator Bypass
  • 6.4. Port Properties
    • 6.4.1. Reed-Solomon Forward Error Correction (RS-FEC)
    • 6.4.2. Test Payload (TPLD) Size
    • 6.4.3. FCS Error Mode
    • 6.4.4. Link Flap
    • 6.4.5. PMA Error Pulse Injection
  • 6.5. Packet Flow
  • 6.6. Flow Filter
    • 6.6.1. Overview
    • 6.6.2. Basic Mode
    • 6.6.3. Extended Mode
  • 6.7. Flow Impairment
    • 6.7.1. Overview
    • 6.7.2. Impairments Types
    • 6.7.3. Impairments Distributions
    • 6.7.4. Scheduler Functions
  • 6.8. Logging and Reporting
  • 6.9. Statistics Charting
• 7. FAQ
  • 7.1. Broken Hardware
    • 7.1.1. Q: How to tell whether there is a problem with your hardware or if your module is broken?
  • 7.2. Manually Calibrate The Negative Delay Between Test Modules
  • 7.3. Traffic Capture
    • 7.3.1. Q: What is traffic capture?
    • 7.3.2. Q: Is Xena compatible with WireShark?
    • 7.3.3. Q: Are the 4-byte Ethernet FCS checksum field values included in pcap files?
    • 7.3.4. Q: How large is the packet Capture buffer?
    • 7.3.5. Q: Which packet protocols can the capture engine decode?
    • 7.3.6. Q: How do I start/stop the traffic capture function?
    • 7.3.7. Q: How can I define my packet capture criteria?
  • 7.4. Chassis and Software
    • 7.4.1. Q: Which OS does XenaManager run on?
    • 7.4.2. Q: Are Xena testers field upgradeable to future product releases?
    • 7.4.3. Q: How do I change the chassis IP address?
    • 7.4.4. Q: I have forgotten the chassis IP address. What do I do?
    • 7.4.5. Q: I have forgotten the password to my tester, how do I log on?
    • 7.4.6. Q: Why do the test port LEDs start blinking after power-on and reboot?
    • 7.4.7. Q: Is the test module inside a XenaCompact identical to the XenaBay test modules?
    • 7.4.8. Q: Are transceiver plug-in modules hot-swappable?
    • 7.4.9. Q: Can I daisy-chain multiple XenaCompact testers into a single logical test unit?
    • 7.4.10. Q: Which TCP ports are used by the Xena testers?
  • 7.5. Test Source NAT Using XenaManager
    • 7.5.1. Testbed Topology
    • 7.5.2. Stream Configuration Using XenaManager For Source NAT Testing
  • 7.6. Port Operation
    • 7.6.1. Q: How can I start/stop traffic on all ports simultaneously?
    • 7.6.2. Q: Can multiple users reserve test ports on the same test module?
    • 7.6.3. Q: Can multiple users view the same port on a test module?
    • 7.6.4. Q: How can I move a port configuration between ports?
    • 7.6.5. Q: Each time I restart traffic on a port, is the generated packet pattern 100% identical?
    • 7.6.6. Q: Does a test port send any training packets?
    • 7.6.7. Q: Can I view the port configuration of ports which are reserved by another user?
    • 7.6.8. Q: Can I reserve a test port even when it is reserved by another user?
    • 7.6.9. Q: What does it mean that the port property ppm speed-reduction is emulated?
    • 7.6.10. Q: Which packets are looped when a port is in Rx-to-Tx loop mode?
    • 7.6.11. Q: Which packets are looped when a port is in Port-to-Port (inline) loop mode?
  • 7.7. Scripting & Automated Testing
    • 7.7.1. Q: Which features are available via scripting?
    • 7.7.2. Q: Where can I find the documentation of the Xena API scripting commands?
    • 7.7.3. Q: Is there a Tcl, Perl, Java or API available?
    • 7.7.4. Q: Can I run Xena2544 against a device which performs Network Address Translation (NAT)?
    • 7.7.5. Q: Are there any wizards for setting up test patterns, e.g. a full mesh traffic load on an n-port DUT?
• 8. Glossary of Terms

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