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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.
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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.
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