Glossary of Terms

API

Application Programming Interface.

IDE

An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development.

Index Manager

An Index Manager manages the subport-level resource indices such as stream indices, filter indices, connection group indices, match term indices, length term indices, etc. It automatically ensures correct and conflict-free index assignment.

Module Manager

A Module Manager helps you access test modules. There is one Module Manager per tester.

Port Manager

A Port Managers helps you access test ports. There is one Port Manager per test module.

Resource Manager

XOA Python API HL-API provides an easy way to manage subtester test resources, including obtaining test resources and managing indices.

Test Resource

Test chassis, test module, and test port, both hardware and virtual are referred to as test resources. A user must have the ownership of a test resource before be able to perform testing.

TGA

Traffic Generation and Analysis.

Valkyrie1564

Valkyrie1564 provides full support for both the configuration and performance test types described in Y.1564. It is installed together with ValkyrieManager and uses the same terminology. The simple intuitive GUI makes it easy to connect one or more ValkyrieCompact and/or ValkyrieBay chassis for testing Layer 2 and Layer 3.

Valkyrie2544

Valkyrie2544 offers full support for the 4 test-types specified in RFC2544, and also lets you partially enable one or more test types. Valkyrie2544 supports different network topologies and traffic flow directions on both Layer 2 and Layer 3, as well as both IPv4 and IPv6.

Valkyrie2889

Valkyrie2889 is a free application for benchmarking the performance of Layer 2 LAN switches.

Valkyrie3918

Valkyrie3918 provides an easy-to-use port configuration panel that lets you add and remove ports, and assign IP addresses and port roles. Ports from multiple ValkyrieBay and ValkyrieCompact chassis can be freely mixed.

XOA

Xena OpenAutomation

XOA CLI

XOA Command-Line Interface. Xena provides a rich set of CLI commands for users to administer test chassis for test automation. Read more here.

XOA Core

Xena OpenAutomation Core is an open test suite framework to execute XOA Test Suites as its plugins.

XOA Python API

The foundation of Xena OpenAutomation is its Python API (XOA Python API) that provides interfaces for engineers to manage Xena hardware and virtual test equipment.