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BreakingPoint 20 Installation Guide 21 BreakingPoint Systems Inc. © 2005-2015
Once you have added the interface to the Network Neighborhood, you can add subnets in the usual
way. For more information on defining subnets, see the section
Defining a Subnet on page 18
.
Task 9: Making Port Reservations
The number of tests that you can run concurrently depends on the number of available ports that the
BreakingPoint device has. For example, a single-blade BreakingPoint device with four available
ports can only run four tests at a time. A two-blade chassis with sixteen total available ports can run
sixteen tests simultaneously. However, in order to run all sixteen tests concurrently, you will need
to assign each available port to a different Active Group.
In order to run tests on the BreakingPoint device, you must make port reservations. A port
reservation occurs when you click on a port to reserve it under your account. No other users can run
tests or system processes on that port while it is reserved under your account.
When you click on a port to reserve it, the system will lock the port reservation under your account.
Locking a port reservation will also reserve all other ports under your account as well; however,
only the ports with locked reservations can be used to run tests.
Note:
In order to run two tests concurrently, each set of blades must be assigned to a different
Active Group. For more information on Active Groups, see the section called Active Groups
in the user guide.
There are three ways to reserve a blade:
• Reserving an unreserved blade
• Force reserving a reserved blade
• Simultaneously reserving or unreserving a blade
Reserving an Unreserved Blade
Unreserved blades may be reserved simply by selecting the Active Group to which you would like
to assign the blade, and then clicking on the port you would like to reserve. This will lock the port
reservation, as well as reserve all the ports on the blade under your account.
Note: A lock containing the Active Group will appear on all the ports on the blade.
An important thing to remember when reserving your ports is the order in which you reserve them.
Whenever you reserve a port, the system will automatically map that port to an interface on the
chassis.
For example, if you reserve ports 0 and 1, then port 0 will map to interface 1 and port 1 will map to
interface 2. You can use these interfaces to run tests. If an interface is not mapped to a port, then
you cannot use that interface to run tests.
If you want to remap the ports to different interfaces, you can click on the Port Mapping options,
located on the Device Options screen, and manually remap the ports.
Note: Only reserved ports will can be mapped to interfaces.