Transcript Agilent Technologies Internet Advisor User Interface

Introduction to the
Agilent Technologies Internet
Advisor
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Lession 2 - Agenda
 Understand
and Identify Internet
Advisor Components
 Understand
and Utilize Internet
Advisor Interfaces
 Understand
When and How to Use
Testing Environments
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Lesson 2 - Objectives
On Completion of this lesson you will be able
to:
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Configure the Agilent Technologies Internet
Advisor hardware
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Navigating through the Agilent Technologies
Internet Advisor user interface
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Understand the differences among the WAN in
Windows Start Menu selections
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Agilent Technologies Internet
Advisor
RS-232C/V.24
Break Out Box
T1/E1 and V-series
status LEDs
RS-232C/V.24 Test Ports
Handset (RJ-11)
V.35 Test Port
Serial and Parallel Ports
RS-449 Test Port
T1, E1, ISDN, ATM
slide-in module
SVGA Video Output
PCMCIA type I/II
3 and 1/2 inch floppy
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Protocol Analyzer Architecture
Display
Filters
User
Interface
Display
Measurements
Triggers
& Actions
Timers &
Counters
Capture
Buffer
Event Log
Capture
Filters
Disk
Protocol Followers
Simulate
Network Interface
Network Under Test
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Agilent Technologies Internet
Advisor User Interface
 Internet Advisor
in Windows 98
– ATM, T1/E1, V-series and ISDN monitoring
– T1/E1 and V-series Frame Relay simulation
– BERT, ISDN BRI and PRI, 4-wire DDS simulation
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Start Menu Options
Result in Different Instrument Configurations:
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The appropriate Internet Advisor WAN
measurement is selected
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Physical interface selected for monitoring
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Filters/counters are configured
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Decode tables are configured:
– to decode/not decode encapsulated LAN traffic
– for the appropriate LMI decodes in the case of Frame Relay
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Introduction to the Windows
User Interface
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User interface main window
View Menu
Line Status
Vital Signs
User Counts
Decode DLCI or LCN Statistics
Filters/Counters
Filters/Counters Editor Window
Top Talker Statistics
Simulation
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WAN in Windows
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Frame Relay Analysis
X.25 Analysis
HDLC Analysis
SNA-SDLC Analysis
Synchronous PPP Analysis
Asynchronous PPP Analysis
ISDN D-Channel Analysis
SMDS Analysis
ATM Analysis and Simulation
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User Interface
Timestamp
Run Menu shortcuts:
Start, Stop, Freeze, Resume
State:
Running
Mode:
Stopped
Monitor
Frozen
Simulate
Post Process
“Go To” Record
scrollbar
View Menu shortcuts:
Configuration
View Toolbar
Button
Elapsed Time since
measurements began
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Network Information:
% Utilization or Data Throughput
Signal Status
(for both sides, EQ and LN)
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Basic Operations
Red Light
 Basic
Run
Operations
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Start
Stopping
Freezing
Resuming
Green Light
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Freeze, Resume
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Tool Bar Options
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User interface main window
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Line Vital Signs
DLCI or LCN Statistics
Top Talker Statistics
Decode
Filters/Counters Statistics
Line Status
Simulation
ISDN B-channel Tracking
Configuration
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Line Vital Signs
 Quick
overview of
the network health
 Displays both the
CPE and the Line
statistics
 Utilization in
graphical
representation
 To
display:
– Click the Line Vital Signs
tool bar button
– or press F4
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Line Vital Signs View
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Decode View
 Provides
the ability
to decode network
traffic
 To
display:
– Click the Decode view tool
bar button
– or press F5
– Summary
– Detailed
– Hex
• ASCII / EBCDIC
 Provides
the ability
to filter /search
network traffic
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Decode View
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Decodes
Display
Filter is
Active
F5
Summary line
for each
decoded
frame
Display
filter or
search the
capture
buffer for
specific
frames or
data
events
Detail view
shows the
contents of
each field in
the decoded
frame
Hex view shows
the bytes in the
frame
ASCII or
EBCDIC
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Decodes
Right click in the
summary view to
pop up these
options
Left click on
detailed and
hex to
correlate this
information
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Filter/Counter Statistics
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Graphical and statistical  To display:
– Click the Filter/ Counters
view of the network
tool bar button
based on setup filters /
– or press F6
counters
– Graph type
• Bar
• Pie
– Mode
• Instantaneous
• Cumulative
– Graph
• % of frames
• Throughput (frames/s)
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Filter/Counter Statistics
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The Line Status View
 Displays
run-time
and historical state
of the physical T1
or CEPT E1 links
 To
display:
– Click the Line Status tool
bar button
– or press F7
– Current Line Status
– Line Status History
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The Line Status View
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DLCI Statistics
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Specific DLCI
statistical information
30 DLCIs
Displays both the CPE
and the Line statistics
 To
display:
– Click the DLCI tool bar
buttons
– or press F9
– Throughput in kbps
– Frame Distribution
– Byte Distribution
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DLCI Statistics View
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Top Talkers
Determines which IP
and IPX users
consume the most
WAN bandwidth
 256 Top talkers
 Sorts the Source /
Destination statistics
 To
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display:
– Click the Top Talker tool
bar button
– or press F11
– Throughput in kbps
– Frame rate and %
– Utilization
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Top Talkers
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Combo View
 Split
common view
combination of:
 To
display:
– Click the Line Vital Signs /
Decode tool bar button
– or press F8
– Line Vital Signs and
Decode Views
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Combo View
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The Configuration View
 Configuration
 To
– Click the Configuration
tool bar button
– or press F10
options:
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configure:
Interface/Protocols
Decode Table
Filters/Counters
Log
Simulate
Traffic Generation
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The Configuration View
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Interface/Protocols Tab
Configuration Button
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Filters/Counters Tab of the
Configuration View
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IA Filter/Counter
Menu Structure
General (Count & Actions)
Frame Attributes
Filter/Counter Entry N
Protocol Stack
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Protocol/Header Info
Protocol/Header Info
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Filters/Counters Editor View
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User Interface Summary
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The Windows User Interface makes it easy to
configure and operate the Internet Advisor
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Individual views can be accessed with drop
down menus on the Menu Bar or by using the
Tool Bar
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Each view performs individual functions that are
important to network analysis
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The Configuration View allows the user to select
and configure the interface for network analysis
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WAN Internet Advisor
Analysis Types
Frame Relay
 X.25
 HDLC
 SNA-SDLC
 Synchronous PPP
 Asynchronous PPP
 ISDN D-Channel
Analysis
 SMDS Analysis
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Internet Advisor Start Menu
WAN Analysis Tree
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The Internet Advisor can analyze a wide
variety of protocols running on a number of
interface types
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This section discusses the Windows 98 Start
Menu Internet Advisor WAN Analysis tree
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The basic design and function of the tree is
examined
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HDLC Analysis Monitor Tests
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Analysis of HDLC Layer 2
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Analysis of HDLC Layer 2 on ISDN Calls
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Analysis of Network Layer LAN protocols (Ethertype)
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TCP Tunneling
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Analysis of HDLC Layer 2
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Flag
8 bits
Filters and Counters configured for:
Address
8 bits
Bad Frames
Abort Frames
INFO Frames
Non-I Frames
Supervisory Frames
RR
RNR
Reject
Control
Unnumbered Frames
SABM
SNRM
UA
DISC
FRMR
DM
UI
Information
8 bits
FCS
16 bits
Flag
8 bits
NOTE: looks for one-byte control field to distinguish frame type
and for two-byte FCS value to determine good, bad or abort frames
 Encapsulated LAN traffic is not decoded
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Analysis of Network Layer LAN
Protocols (Ethertype)
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Filters and Counters configured for:
IP
Novell (IPX)
XNS (IDP)
Banyan
DECnet
3Com
Appletalk
SNA
(counters 9 through 16 are not defined)
Flag
8 bits
Address
8 bits
Control
8 bits
Type Field
Information
16 bits
FCS
Flag
16 bits
NOTE: looks for two-byte Ethernet type field in frame bytes 3 and 4
(i.e. the first two bytes of the data field of each INFO frame)
AND FCS must be GOOD.
 Encapsulated LAN traffic is decoded
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8 bits
Interface Selection
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T1
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V.35
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RS-449/V.36
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RS-232/V.24
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Synchronous PPP Analysis
Monitor Tests
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Analysis of Multilink PPP
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Analysis of Network Layer LAN protocols (Ethertype)
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Analysis of PPP and Network Layer LAN protocols
(Ethertype) on ISDN Calls
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Synchronous PPP Analysis
Monitor Tests
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Analysis of Multilink PPP
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Analysis of Network Layer LAN protocols (Ethertype)
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Analysis of PPP and Network Layer LAN protocols
(Ethertype) on ISDN Calls
NOTE: Counters are configured same as HDLC EXCEPT that the 2-byte PPP type fields
contain different values than the 2-byte Ethernet type fields used in HDLC.
 Encapsulated LAN traffic is decoded
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Frame Relay Analysis
Monitor Tests
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Analysis of Network Layer LAN protocols
(1490 and 2427)
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Analysis of Network Layer LAN protocols
(Ethertype)
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Frame Relay Analysis of IDSN Calls
(T1,E1.BRI-ST,U)
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TCP Tunneling
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