XenaManager User Manual
Table of Contents
- Overview
- Installation and Upgrade
- Getting Started
- General
- TG and L1
- Impairment
- FAQ
- Broken Hardware
- Manually Calibrate The Negative Delay Between Test Modules
- Traffic Capture
- Q: What is traffic capture?
- Q: Is Xena compatible with WireShark?
- Q: Are the 4-byte Ethernet FCS checksum field values included in pcap files?
- Q: How large is the packet Capture buffer?
- Q: Which packet protocols can the capture engine decode?
- Q: How do I start/stop the traffic capture function?
- Q: How can I define my packet capture criteria?
- Chassis and Software
- Q: Which OS does XenaManager run on?
- Q: Are Xena testers field upgradeable to future product releases?
- Q: How do I change the chassis IP address?
- Q: I have forgotten the chassis IP address. What do I do?
- Q: I have forgotten the password to my tester, how do I log on?
- Q: Why do the test port LEDs start blinking after power-on and reboot?
- Q: Is the test module inside a XenaCompact identical to the XenaBay test modules?
- Q: Are transceiver plug-in modules hot-swappable?
- Q: Can I daisy-chain multiple XenaCompact testers into a single logical test unit?
- Q: Which TCP ports are used by the Xena testers?
- Test Source NAT Using XenaManager
- Port Operation
- Q: How can I start/stop traffic on all ports simultaneously?
- Q: Can multiple users reserve test ports on the same test module?
- Q: Can multiple users view the same port on a test module?
- Q: How can I move a port configuration between ports?
- Q: Each time I restart traffic on a port, is the generated packet pattern 100% identical?
- Q: Does a test port send any training packets?
- Q: Can I view the port configuration of ports which are reserved by another user?
- Q: Can I reserve a test port even when it is reserved by another user?
- Q: What does it mean that the port property ppm speed-reduction is emulated?
- Q: Which packets are looped when a port is in Rx-to-Tx loop mode?
- Q: Which packets are looped when a port is in Port-to-Port (inline) loop mode?
- Scripting & Automated Testing
- Q: Which features are available via scripting?
- Q: Where can I find the documentation of the Xena API scripting commands?
- Q: Is there a Tcl, Perl, Java or API available?
- Q: Can I run Xena2544 against a device which performs Network Address Translation (NAT)?
- Q: Are there any wizards for setting up test patterns, e.g. a full mesh traffic load on an n-port DUT?
- Glossary of Terms