Glossary of Terms#
- ANLT#
Auto-Negotiation and Link Training.
- API#
Application Programming Interface.
- CG#
Connection Group. A Connection Group is a basic building block when creating L47 traffic, and it consists of a configurable number of TCP connections.
- CRUD#
Create, read, update, and delete operations
- DUT#
Device Under Test.
- HL-API#
Xena OpenAutomation High-Level Python API.
- HL-FUNC#
Xena OpenAutomation High-Level Functions.
- I2C#
I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit, eye-squared-C), alternatively known as I2C or IIC, is a synchronous, multi-controller/multi-target (controller/target), packet switched, single-ended, serial communication bus.
- 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.
- LL-API#
Xena OpenAutomation Low-Level Python API.
- Load Profile#
A load profile defines a start time and a duration of each of the ramp-up, steady, and ramp-down phases of a connection group.
- Module Manager#
A Module Manager helps you access test modules. There is one Module Manager per tester.
- Module Type#
Module Type corresponds to the model of a test module. Modules of different module types have different port counts, port speeds, capabilities, etc. Examples of module types are Loki-100G-5S-1P, Odin-10G-5S-6P-CU.
- Port Manager#
A Port Managers helps you access test ports. There is one Port Manager per test module.
- Port Type#
Port Type corresponds to the module that the port belongs to. All ports on the same module have the same port type.
- PRBS#
Pseudorandom Binary Sequence is a binary sequence that, while generated with a deterministic algorithm, is difficult to predict and exhibits statistical behavior similar to a truly random sequence.
- Resource Manager#
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.
- TID#
Test Payload Identifier. It is used to identify a sending stream.
- TPLD#
Test Payload Data. Each Xena test packet contains a special proprietary data area called the Test Payload Data, which contains various information about the packet. The TPLD is located just before the Ethernet FCS.
- 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.