Overview… global control
Every port of the current testbed have separate buttons in the XenaManager for starting and stopping traffic, capture, and histograms, like:
This gives you maximum flexibility in controlling the operation of each tester.
However, when working with many ports it is inconvenient to have to start and stop them separately. Instead you can use the global buttons, located on a little panel on the “Global” tab of the content area:
The global panel is an ideal candidate for being pulled-out into its own little window.
Pressing the “START” button: stops any current traffic generation, clears all statistics, starts capture and histograms, and finally starts traffic generation.
Pressing the “STOP” button: stops traffic generation, and then stops capturing and histograms.
Pressing the “CLEAN” button: clears all statistics, and furthermore cleans out the list of observed test payload identifiers.
There can be a noticeable delay when using these buttons, since the XenaManager needs to communicate with all the chassis of the testbed, and wait for them to respond.
The global buttons are also useful even when you only use a single port. They automatically clear statistics and restart capture and histograms before starting traffic generation, and this is typically just what you want.
The global buttons by default affect all the ports of the testbed, but this can be turned off using the little check-marks next to each per-port button:
These check-marks are available for start/stop traffic, capture, and histograms, and for clearing transmit/receive statistics.
The setting of the check-marks is local to the XenaManager, and not stored on the chassis. They are therefore not inherited by any other client that connects to the chassis. They are saved along with the port parameters in the port configuration and test case files.
The global panel also shows the time elapsed since the “START” button was pressed, in the format ‘days.hh:mm:ss’, here just under five minutes:
You can make a timed test-run by entering the duration, in the case above one full day of 24 hours.