XenaManager GUI and Scripting Framework

XenaManager Software

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GUI Framework for Xena Test Systems

The Xena Manager software enables the traffic generation and analysis features of the Xena test equipment. Every Xena chassis has a dedicated standard 1G Ethernet management port connecting the chassis to an IPv4 network, through which the equipment can be discovered by the Xena Manager software. Each chassis has a configurable IP address and can thus potentially be accessed from anywhere. The Xena Manager can organize the discovered equipment into user defined test-bed setups, and supports multi-user environments. Hardware resources can be reserved down to test port level granularity from multiple simultaneous Xena Manager sessions. The Xena Manager offers lab managers the ability to perform software and firmware upgrades, eliminating the need to directly interface with the equipment.

All features of the Xena equipment can be enabled and accessed from the Xena Manager, which provides interfaces for configuring chassis and test port properties, defining advanced traffic streams for traffic generation, specifying filters for incoming traffic, performing real-time capture of packets, and for displaying and analyzing traffic statistics. The Manager’s packet editor function supports both protocol (IP, VLAN, UDP, etc.) and byte-level packet definitions, and the packet capture function also has the capability to automatically decode the packet content at the protocol level.