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6.2

Alarms

OTT Option

OTT Channel

OTT Analysis

PID Thresholds

OTT Thresholds

ETR Thresholds

FSM Settings

FSM Measurements

Alarm Settings

and Scheduling

SNMP Alarms

Alarm Lists

System Events

ETH Thresholds

Service Thresholds

ETH Multicast

ETH Measurements

ETR 290 Option

Figure 6.1: Alarm handling in the 10G Probe.

Figure 6.1 shows an overview of the alarm handling in the 10G Probe. It is useful to obtain an under-
standing of the alarm processing of the 10G Probe – in particular how threshold settings and alarm setup

VB3xx 10G Probe User’s Manual version 5.3

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Summary of Contents for VB330

Page 1: ...VB3xx 10G Probes Applies to software release v5 3 Form 8046E February 2017...

Page 2: ...ment may also have links to third party web pages that are beyond the control of Sencore The presence of such links does not imply that Sencore endorses or recommends the content on those pages Sencor...

Page 3: ...6 4 3 2 Cooling System 17 4 3 3 VB300 DC Power Supply 17 4 4 Serial Number Location 18 4 5 The Hardware Modules and Connectors 18 4 5 1 The VB330 Module 18 4 6 Installing the Unit in a Rack 19 4 6 1 D...

Page 4: ...6 3 2 OTT Details 49 6 3 2 1 OTT Details Profiles 50 6 3 2 2 OTT Details Manifest 52 6 3 2 3 OTT Details Alarms 54 6 3 2 4 OTT Details Thumbnails 55 6 3 2 5 OTT Details Alignment 56 6 3 3 OTT Latency...

Page 5: ...8 ETR 290 T2MI requires T2MI OPT 125 6 9 9 ETR 290 SCTE 35 requires SCTE35 OPT 129 6 9 10 ETR 290 Status 131 6 9 11 ETR 290 Compare 132 6 9 12 ETR 290 ETR thr 136 6 9 13 ETR 290 PID thresh 148 6 9 14...

Page 6: ...RTP Monitoring 189 B 2 Default Multicst Monitoring 189 B 3 Strategy for MediaWindow Analysis 191 B 3 1 IAT Before and After Router 192 B 3 2 Identifying UDP Packet Loss 193 B 4 Multicast Thresholds 19...

Page 7: ...F Appendix Restoring probe factory defaults 203 VB3xx 10G Probe User s Manual version 5 3 7...

Page 8: ...to reflect changes in v5 3 software March 2016 5 2 Updated manual to reflect changes in v5 2 software February 2015 5 1 Updated manual to reflect changes in v5 1 software January 2014 5 0 Updated man...

Page 9: ...MODULATOR IP ASI QAM REGIONAL CABLE NETWORK VB120 PROBE VB252 DVB T T2 MODULE VB120 PROBE VB272 QPSK DVB S S2 MODULE VB12 RF PROBE VB120 PROBE VB262 QAM VSB DVB C MODULE The OTT software option is av...

Page 10: ...RDP using the regular video data network or the management network to return a stream A faulty signal can then be further analyzed at the studio premises when necessary The recording functionality all...

Page 11: ...P address A step by step quick installation guide is found in section 4 1 Chapter 5 QUICK SETUP GUIDE contains a quick setup guide a step by step description of how to setup the 10G Probe once the ini...

Page 12: ...t SNMP Traps Figure 2 1 The VB330 Module Principle of Operation A simplified diagram of the alarm handling mechanisms of the 10G Probe is shown in figure 2 2 The input signals are continuously analyze...

Page 13: ...Signal Measurements Threshold Settings Alarm Settings SNMP Alarms Alarm Lists Figure 2 2 Simplified Diagram of the Alarm Handling in the 10G Probe VB3xx 10G Probe User s Manual version 5 3 13...

Page 14: ...ntained by service personnel as defined by AS NZS 3260 Incorrectly connecting this equipment to a general purpose outlet could be hazardous The 10G Probe is shipped with an SX SFP module that is equip...

Page 15: ...00 The 1RU Enhanced Chassis can house a maximum of 2 modules and it is equipped with two 100 240V AC 75W power supplies The unit is forced air ventilated the air flow going from front to back The maxi...

Page 16: ...Enhanced Chassis can house a maximum of 2 modules and it is equipped with two 48V DC 75W power supplies The unit is forced air ventilated the air flow going from front to back The maximum power consu...

Page 17: ...low It is recommended but not essential that these venting holes are not covered 4 3 3 VB300 DC Power Supply The VB300 DC unit is equipped with two 48V DC 50W power inlet connectors The power plug is...

Page 18: ...rt emulator for initial set up of the probe Type A MANAGEMENT For optionally running management of the probe on a separate network RJ 45 This interface supports 10 100 1000T SFP A SFP optical interfac...

Page 19: ...support the weight of the unit so no additional support like a rack shelf is needed When deciding where to locate the unit make sure there is sufficient space surrounding the unit to allow efficient...

Page 20: ...interface typically the start up may take up to two minutes 4 8 Initial Configuration There are two alternative ways of performing an initial configuration of the probe module 1 By using the preconfi...

Page 21: ...address of the PC has been set to match the VB330 factory setting the permanent network settings can be configured through the VB330 web browser interface Refer to sections 4 8 3 and 6 10 5 for detail...

Page 22: ...then VCP followed by the operating system VCP is short for Virtual COM Port If it is not already connected connect the USB cable between the USB port on the probe and a USB port on the PC Start a term...

Page 23: ...yed To change a setting press the appropriate character from the left most column enter the new value and confirm by pressing Enter If DHCP is enabled you can find the currently assigned IP address by...

Page 24: ...igher Google Chrome Apple Safari Type the IP address of the probe in the browser URL field and press Enter The IP address of the probe is that of the eth0 or eth1 port the one used for management as s...

Page 25: ...ke sure that the management and data video subnets do not overlap even if only one is physically connected Make sure the probe was rebooted to activate the new settings Clear the browser s cache VB3xx...

Page 26: ...up Login view Note it is important to read the instructions in the associated section of this manual see chap ter 6 10 8 5 2 Input Signal Definitions 5 2 1 Multicasts 1 Define multicasts either by usi...

Page 27: ...et the signals may be monitored For Ethernet multicasts the relevant monitoring views are Main Alarms Multicasts MW Traffic and Ethernet If the probe is equipped with the ETR 290 and or the OTT option...

Page 28: ...ased on the ETSI TR 101 290 guidelines and are fairly strict generating more alarms The ETR 290 thresholds should be changed if there are tables that are not relevant for a system or if the user requi...

Page 29: ...VB3xx 10G Probe User s Manual version 5 3 29...

Page 30: ...6 THE 10G PROBE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE 30 VB3xx 10G Probe User s Manual version 5 3...

Page 31: ...by clicking on the tabs just below the 10G Probe logo Some of the pages have their own tabs for accessing nested pages The bottom frame of the interface is always the Alarms events list usually refer...

Page 32: ...ow this display the following parameters are shown NTP timesync Bulb The NTP timesync bulb indicates whether the VB330 clock is locked to an external time reference signal Green indicates that the VB3...

Page 33: ...The VB330 name as defined by the operator in the Setup Params view Location The VB330 location as defined by the operator in the Setup Params view Access The access rights of the current user Access...

Page 34: ...rrently being joined monitored by the probe IGMP ver The IGMP version currently used by the probe IGMPv2 is used unless the operator has selected source specific multicasts Setup Params view in which...

Page 35: ...tamp Indicates whether the network interface supports hardware timestamping for precise measurements or if kernel timestamping is used 6 1 2 Main CPU usage The CPU usage view is meant for troubleshoot...

Page 36: ...dicating the type of stream being received If the Small button is clicked the Thumb overview view will display service names and thumbs only allowing more thumbnails to be displayed in a view To displ...

Page 37: ...bled Two consecutive equal frames have been detected but the freeze frame error timeout value has not been exceeded Red freeze frame is enabled Freeze frame has been detected and the freeze frame erro...

Page 38: ...in the client web browser for as long as the graph window remains open The graph starts again with zero history if the window is closed and then opened again Up to 5 streams are possible to plot on t...

Page 39: ...em Events ETH Thresholds Service Thresholds ETH Multicast ETH Measurements ETR 290 Option Figure 6 1 Alarm handling in the 10G Probe Figure 6 1 shows an overview of the alarm handling in the 10G Probe...

Page 40: ...generate events The Ethernet software module will by default generate events for errors that are resolved within 1 second otherwise it will generate alarms This can be overridden by checking the Treat...

Page 41: ...window 6 2 2 Alarms Alarm setup The Alarm setup represents the final filtering stage for VB330 alarms The user selects whether an alarm should be enabled or ignored and associates an error severity le...

Page 42: ...rity Error RTP duplicates Number of RTP packets with identi cal RTP counters only available if RTP headers are present Default Disabled severity Warning RTP out of order There are RTP packets received...

Page 43: ...te goes be low the minimum bitrate Ethernet threshold value specified by the op erator Default Enabled severity Error FSM alarms Full service monitoring No reply was obtained within time out period fo...

Page 44: ...cription Table error Default Enabled severity Major EIT Event Information Table error Default Enabled severity Major RST Running Status Table error Default Enabled severity Major TDT Time Date Table e...

Page 45: ...ng of au dio and video Default Enabled severity Major Reference Reference check error comparing the stream with a Gold TS Default Enabled severity Major Gold TS Error found while comparing the stream...

Page 46: ...fest file size exceeds the OTT manifest size threshold Default Enabled severity Warning Actual bitrate The actual measured bitrate does not match the profile bitrate speci fied in the manifest file De...

Page 47: ...Enabled severity Fatal 6 2 3 Alarms Flash Alarms FLASH option The FLASH option enables the Flash alarms TAB This alarm list contains the last 20 000 alarms and keeps them in non volatile memory so th...

Page 48: ...n moves on to the next OTT channel in the channel list defined by the user For a VoD channel the OTT engine will analyze all chunks in the VoD file one in each round robin loop If manifest file parsin...

Page 49: ...s Profiles are separated by vertical black lines Colors indicate profile alarm status Green OK Yellow Warning Orange Error Red Major Black Fatal Profiles The number of profiles associated with a chann...

Page 50: ...Channel The channel name defined by the user and linked to a URL in the OTT Channels view A bulb indicates the current status of the channel i e the most severe profile status Progress Channels will b...

Page 51: ...ofiles Refer to Appendix C for a description of these graphs The timeline duration is either 2 or 24 hours and the graph resolution is one minute for the 2 hour graph and twelve minutes for the 24 hou...

Page 52: ...the most severe profile status Progress Channels will be analyzed sequentially and the progress bar shows which channel is currently being monitored and how analysis is progressing Profiles The number...

Page 53: ...his view contains the following information Profile The name of the OTT profile as flagged in the manifest files Profile bps The profile nominal bandwidth as flagged in the manifest files Type Live fo...

Page 54: ...alarm log for the selected channel is also provided here In the right corner of the pop up window is a free text search field used to narrow down the entries in the alarm log The alarms are the same...

Page 55: ...ng a profile from the drop down list the thumbnail will be switched to the default selection Auto select Auto select will select the profile with the highest bitrate and video data Decoder information...

Page 56: ...ype of the stream detected live or video on demand Sequence Number The sequence number of a chunk 6 3 2 5 OTT Details Alignment The Alignment tab gives the user a view of all the profiles for a select...

Page 57: ...rs are highlighted in yellow the thumbnails are not generated from the same chunk for all profiles and may therefor appear to be out of synchronization Bitrate The signaled bitrate for this profile bi...

Page 58: ...channel will use one dedicated Latency Engine if you try setting Latency or Both and there is no free Latency Engine available it will default back to Normal Once the configuration is finished you are...

Page 59: ...g Distribute selected will distribute the selected channels across the licensed OTT engines the VB330 can be licensed with up to 50 OTT engines Clicking Edit selected will open the Edit channel pop up...

Page 60: ...ame should be assigned to each OTT channel The name will be used throughout the probe s user interface when referring to this channel Manifest URL The URL of the OTT channel Player URL In this field y...

Page 61: ...file create a text file containing the headers and upload them here Body When requesting the manifest using the HTTP POST upload the file to submit here The advanced manifest options can be used in i...

Page 62: ...nnection after Configures the VB330 OTT engines to reset the connections after the specified number of minutes This is useful for cases where the server has a limit for how long a session can live By...

Page 63: ...able a threshold alarm set the threshold value to 1 This does not apply for Manifest XML size Threshold preset Name The threshold template name defined by the user Refs The number of channels associat...

Page 64: ...and Max bitrate is the minimum and maximum value of the Accumulated current bitrate When the Current page button is clicked it is possible to select the page from a drop down menu The associated thum...

Page 65: ...ereby removing them from the list The Statistical parameters view lists sum or peak values for parameters over the interval indicated by the selected time button Last 4d Last 24h Last 8h Last 20m Last...

Page 66: ...tream continuity counters This value is the total number of discontinuities detected for all PIDs present Note that this value does NOT represent the number of MPEG 2 TS packets lost because any conti...

Page 67: ...ssible to exactly deduce the number of dropped IP frames due to network issues This is possible as a result of the 16 bit sequence counter inside the RTP header The following sequence will generate an...

Page 68: ...mber of seconds with CC errors ES RTP Number of seconds during selected period with RTP packet drops ES overfl Number of seconds during selected period with bitrate overflow ES nosig Number of seconds...

Page 69: ...is recognized as being MPEG 2 encoded but the thumbnail extractor is unable to correctly decode a thumbnail picture The signal is recognized as being MPEG 4 H 264 encoded but the thumbnail extractor...

Page 70: ...h service the service name or service id is obtained from the PSI SI tables PIDs that do not belong to a service are denoted Other PIDs The service ID is presented in square brackets Service Component...

Page 71: ...table and tightly bunched graph indicates small levels of network jitter An unbound graph indicates network jitter issues typically brought forward by traffic congestion or misconfigured routers Click...

Page 72: ...information Clicking the Close button will close the Thumb View view The following metadata is displayed for multicasts Audio fields PID The audio PID for which the associated parameters apply Langua...

Page 73: ...ay the multicast name here instead Controlbit scramble state The scramble state as indicated by the MPEG TS control bit PES sync scramble state The scramble state as detected from the PES sync state N...

Page 74: ...the selected Audio PID contains PCR Language The language of the audio as defined in the MPEG TS Program Map Table PMT Bitrate The audio bitrate for this PID or component bit s Is scrambled Yes if the...

Page 75: ...Parameters Fields view enables selection of the parameters to be displayed in the Multicasts Parameters view Note that thumbnails must also be enabled in the Setup Params view for thumbnail availabil...

Page 76: ...n an alarm state Note that the number of alarms counted refers to default settings and alarms disabled by the user will still be counted Interface bitrate This is the total bitrate sensed on eth0 It s...

Page 77: ...Monitoring page will present error second statistics for each stream individually OK Shows how many of the streams monitored on this page are without active alarms ES MLR Number of seconds in selected...

Page 78: ...IP frames due to network errors in the interval repre sented by the bar This parameter corresponds to the sum of RTP drops reported by all streams RTPdup Accumulated number of duplicate IP frames in t...

Page 79: ...d by clicking them and moving them to the right hand side of this view using the arrow Changes should be confirmed by clicking the Apply changes button Joined streams may be freely associated with the...

Page 80: ...d if one or more ETR with that engine is enabled The search field in the upper right corner of the view allows the user to type a text string and the multicast list is updated to display only streams...

Page 81: ...template VBC thresholds The VBC thresholds specify various error limits to be used by VideoBRIDGE Controller to generate alarms These thresholds are only relevant if the VideoBRIDGE Controller is used...

Page 82: ...responsibility to ensure that a multicast is only transmit ted by one SSM source at any time SSM source 3 Additional SSM source address SSM source 4 Additional SSM source address SSM source 5 Additio...

Page 83: ...only relevant if the probe is ETR enabled Service thresholds The Service thresholds selection defines various error limits and alarm con ditions Selectable service thresholds templates are defined in...

Page 84: ...ant RTP streams here Seamless Protection Switching SMPTE 2022 7 monitors the same stream transmitted twice The probe verifies that the two streams combined do not have packet loss and the jitter betwe...

Page 85: ...ifferent ways of creating user defined thresholds To create a new threshold template from scratch the operator should click the Add new threshold button A pop up window will appear allowing the user t...

Page 86: ...contains warning limits for IAT Inter packet Arrival Time and MLR Media Loss Rate The IAT limit is the first parameter before the colon the MLR limit is the last parameter If the IAT limit is exceede...

Page 87: ...ways aggregated over a time interval typically one second The IAT max is the maximum time measured between two neighboring IP frames within the measurement time interval the peak packet Inter arrival...

Page 88: ...o indicate error while yellow indicates warning The error and warning thresholds are allocated to each multicast in the Multicasts Streams view The user determines whether only multicasts associated w...

Page 89: ...ithout starting several browser sessions When in the pop up Media Window by pressing some where in the graph the field will get zoomed in This hi resolution version of the Media Window reveals more de...

Page 90: ...contains a transport stream mapping TS x the bitrate corresponds to the Multicasts parameter Net bitrate i e bitrate excluding null packets Otherwise the bitrate is the UDP payload bitrate correspond...

Page 91: ...vate an RDP engine There are different icons for controlling RDP engines depending on whether they are configured to relay or record The state of each RDP engine is restored after a reboot For recordi...

Page 92: ...the probe are available for selection Content The user selects the service to be relayed or recorded or alternatively selects that the complete stream should be used The PIDs associated with the serv...

Page 93: ...eams Rec size The total file size of the recording When in alarm trigger mode the resulting recording will consist of a fixed sized portion of data before the alarm is raised and the remaining recordi...

Page 94: ...ng measurements apply Cur bitrate The current total bitrate for this protocol measured over the last 1s period Max bitrate The maximum bitrate during any 1s period Min bitrate The minimum non zero bit...

Page 95: ...he interface is operating at full or half duplex UDP unicasts The number of detected UDP unicasts UDP multicasts The number of detected UDP multicasts COP3 Correctable Total count of dropped payload I...

Page 96: ...it possible for the probe to distinguish between multicasts with the same destination IP address and port provided that Source specific multicasts has been enabled in the Setup Params view If the str...

Page 97: ...ity RTP drops The number of detected RTP drops for the stream This is only valid if the stream is RTP encapsulated CC errors The number of detected continuity counter errors for the stream Bitrate The...

Page 98: ...ching the associated filter Avg str duration The stream duration is calculated for each stream by identifying the stream s average stream alive counter inside the selected time period then multiply by...

Page 99: ...for the last 60 minutes Clicking a graph icon displays the corresponding detailed graph for the selected filter Clicking the trend graphs itself will bring up the same detailed graph but will plot al...

Page 100: ...filtering Only tagged traffic Only untagged traffic or Require matching specified value a specific VLAN ID IP dst The IP destination address mode No filtering or Require matching specified value a sp...

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Page 102: ...Max interval bitrate is the max sum of Ethernet frame sizes inside one interval last second converted to bits per second This number should always be bigger or equal for shorter intervals Click the l...

Page 103: ...rver reachable by the probe via Ethernet The servers may be probed by either sending an ICMP Echo Request packet also known as Ping or performing an HTTP Get request Up to 10 services may be defined a...

Page 104: ...onse time Timer Button to reset and immediately restart the service State Current state of the service The states are Disabled Waiting to send Waiting for reply Got reply and Reset For convenience a m...

Page 105: ...ding Edit button in the left hand table The probe supports ping and generic HTTP Get protocols for online status verification of arbitrary targets After completing configuration of the selected servic...

Page 106: ...eld maximum 100 characters These fields are specific for the HTTP Get protocol http IP address The request to send to the target for example index html Expect word reply A case sensitive word or sente...

Page 107: ...ast navigation Newest Move to the first page Much newer Move 10 pages backwards Newer Move 1 page backwards Older Move 1 page forwards Much older Move 10 pages forwards Oldest Move to the last page Sy...

Page 108: ...ton The IGMP messages can be exported as XML by clicking the Export button and the list is cleared by clicking the Clear list button i Click the blue information icon to open the IGMP record pop up vi...

Page 109: ...ader If enabled only 64 first bytes of Ethernet frame is captured This allows higher bitrate traffic to be recorded and over longer time Capture all non TCP UDP traffic Check to record non IPv4 traffi...

Page 110: ...90 option The ETR 290 views show information as reported by the ETSI TR 101 290 monitoring engines If ETR 290 analysis has been configured for multiple Ethernet streams to be monitored by a particular...

Page 111: ...user to view the name of an individual check in the MicroETR display Let the mouse pointer hover over the field for a moment to view the tool tip When clicking one of the MicroETR icons the detailed...

Page 112: ...ound robin tuning process is stopped locked to the current frequency or resumed A DVB or ATSC icon indicates the analysis mode The analysis mode is defined as part of the ETR threshold template The ET...

Page 113: ...e reset and the ETR 290 analysis restarts The details of the individual ETR 290 measurements are described in a separate document called Sencore VideoBRIDGE ETR 290 Details Extended ETSI TR 101 290 Te...

Page 114: ...imelines for different ETR priorities and for different alarms may be viewed as the tree is expanded into several levels Tooltips reveals details about an error incident By default the Show only error...

Page 115: ...ng of this frequency was restarted by the user clicking on Clear status in the ETR Overview Maximum Bitrate The maximum bitrate measurement for this PID since the start of the moni toring period Carri...

Page 116: ...ed A DVB or ATSC icon indicates the analysis mode The analysis mode is defined as part of the ETR thresholds When tree nodes are selected detailed information will be displayed on the right hand side...

Page 117: ...ambled Service node Service name Name of the highlighted service as signalled in SDT or VCT Service ID Service ID number Service type Service type as signalled in SDT Service provider name The name of...

Page 118: ...e ETR threshold template Please note initial extraction of thumbnails can take around one minute when decoding the thumbnail manually by opening this pop up When clicking a service component associate...

Page 119: ...itrates This view shows a graphical representation of service and PID bitrates The current bitrate is shown as the length of the light blue bar whereas the dark blue bar represents bitrate variation s...

Page 120: ...m of the selected input The name of the current stream is displayed in addition to the two round robin indicator icons when relevant the time cycle icon and the lock icon By clicking the lock icon the...

Page 121: ...ly to the highlighted hex dump byte s because some of the table entries do not add up to whole bytes By hovering the cursor over the items in the tree a tooltip is displayed showing the start position...

Page 122: ...splayed If the stream has EIT p f other information and this table is enabled in Setup ETR then the list will also contain EPG present following for other streams If the stream has EIT schedule inform...

Page 123: ...sus jitter PCR jitter is by default measured as PCR AC for all interfaces By creating an ETR threshold template that enables PCR OJ and assigning this template to a stream it is possible to select PCR...

Page 124: ...ments are not valid due to the bitrate not being constant Note that PCR jitter measurements for Ethernet streams are very sensitive to packet loss and packet loss results in a large jitter values ofte...

Page 125: ...d superframe index Frame index The index of the last received frame Input streams Indicates whether Single or Multiple Input Streams are used Coding and modulation Whether the stream uses Constant Cod...

Page 126: ...ing is used or not L1 modulation The L1 modulation type used BPSK QPSK 16 QAM or 64 QAM L1 FEC type The L1 fec type in use Only LDPC 16K is currently supported in DVB T2 L1 repetition Shows if dynamic...

Page 127: ...ype of the PLP Data PLP Type 1 is the most common some signals can have a common PLP as well as well as other PLP types Payload Payload type of this PLP Will typically be the Transport Stream format P...

Page 128: ...RF index used for transmitting this PLP First frame idx The first frame index used to transmit this PLP PLP group id The group signaled for this PLP The PLPs in a group shares one common PLP and when...

Page 129: ...andwidth is static or not static Static padding Says whether the padding is static or can change between each BB frame PLP start The start value for the PLP in the stream PLP num blocks The number of...

Page 130: ...specified transport stream The event information list parameters Parameter Description Time When the event occurred Service ID The ID of the service for which the event applies Service name The name...

Page 131: ...rent alarms making it easy to view what services and PIDs are currently affected by errors By clicking any of the Service view service or component nodes it is possible to view the same details that a...

Page 132: ...cross different probe interfaces Clicking Show streams results in a list of selectable transport streams and services and clicking Show services results in a list of selectable services For a transpor...

Page 133: ...al sub views Stream overview Stream overview shows a number of key parameters for the selected stream service Stream overview TS ID The transport stream ID of the selected stream or the stream contain...

Page 134: ...Priority 3 The time the stream has been affected by ETSI TR 101 290 Priority 3 errors No signal The time the stream has been affected by No signal alarm CC errors The time the stream has been affected...

Page 135: ...rvice tree displaying the service s individual components The minimum and maximum effective bitrates of a service component are also shown in addition to the number of continuity counter errors and th...

Page 136: ...licking a check will open a pop up view displaying alarm details Please refer to the ETR 290 ETR Details section of this user s manual for a comprehensive description of this view 6 9 12 ETR 290 ETR t...

Page 137: ...e is by highlighting one of the threshold templates already defined and then click the Duplicate highlighted button The copy created this way may be edited during the fine tuning phase of system confi...

Page 138: ...ut s The number of seconds after an error has occurred before the alarm is cleared as long as no new alarms are generated For all table related alarms the actual alarm timeout which is used is the sum...

Page 139: ...lticast once the probe has established that there is no signal on the tuning setup When monitoring a tuning setup with signal loss the probe will use the lowest value of Tuning duration and Sync loss...

Page 140: ...at are associated with these PIDs This is particularly useful for PIDs affected by continuity counter errors missing PID errors and unreferenced PID errors ETR Thresholds Priority 2 Transport Enable o...

Page 141: ...Default Disabled NIT Require orig netw id If enabled the probe will require that the original network ID found in the NIT matches the configured value Default Disabled NIT Min num transport streams Th...

Page 142: ...ference frequency Both the CRC values of the different sections and the number of sections must be identical Default Disabled SI Repetition Rate Enable or disable alarming of SI Repetition Rate errors...

Page 143: ...rect The maxium offset from the current time can be configured EIT Maximum timing error for present event s The maxium timing error to allow for the present event If the current time is not inside the...

Page 144: ...m allowed section repetition interval for the PNM table Default 1000ms RRT Enable or disable alarming of Rating Region Table errors Only relevant when ATSC mode is selected RRT Maximum interval ms The...

Page 145: ...m time allowed between ECM changes Default 25000ms CA system checks Minimum avg EMM bitrate bps The minimum allowed average EMM bitrate Default 1000 bps CA system checks EMM bitrate average period s T...

Page 146: ...th the stream MIP checks Enable or disable alarming of errors related to the Megaframe Insertion Packet MIP checks Require presence of MIP Check this box to enable an alarm if the MIP table is missing...

Page 147: ...ables Time information check Enable or disable alarming if there are errors in the time information sent in the streams Probe should use NTP time sync to use this functionality Time information check...

Page 148: ...umn shows how many streams are associated with each threshold template There are two different ways of creating user defined thresholds To create a new threshold template from scratch the operator sho...

Page 149: ...The PID threshold template has the following settings VB3xx 10G Probe User s Manual version 5 3 149...

Page 150: ...Mbit s and monitoring is enabled Req language If the PID need to have a certain language code signalled in the language descriptor it can be set here An alarm will be raised if a wrong language is sig...

Page 151: ...ng user defined thresholds To create a new threshold template from scratch the operator should click the Add new threshold group button A pop up window will appear allowing the user to assign a name a...

Page 152: ...itor name A text string may be specified that should match the service name of the associated service ID as analyzed from the received SDT Note that the check is case sensitive An alarm will be raised...

Page 153: ...me detection When set to Disabled the freeze frame detection is disabled When set to Trigger seldom only a small amount of noise is allowed when comparing frames Normal is the recommended setting wher...

Page 154: ...This allows the operator to be notified of any changes in the PSI SI tables such as A service disappearing A new service being added Language descriptors suddenly changing Changes in service names Ch...

Page 155: ...ll streams on an input this is done as a part of the round robin cycle at the end if the tuning period It can then take a while for all thresholds to be generated or updated depending on the number of...

Page 156: ...catch addition and removal of services as well as changes to the PMT PIDs used for the different services Verify PMT table When enabled the Program Map Table will be checked This allows the operator...

Page 157: ...table is not checked as default When enabled the Network Information Table for the current network will be checked This allows the operator to catch changes such as Changes in frequency Changes in mo...

Page 158: ...larms be sent When the ETR engine is tuned to a stream it is possible to compare the tables for this stream with the stored reference tables by clicking on the entry in the list This opens up a new wi...

Page 159: ...he tables are inspected and the change found to be OK the operator can then go back to ETR 290 Gold TS thr and update the stored table set to the new version VB3xx 10G Probe User s Manual version 5 3...

Page 160: ...shown in the Main Summary view and in the browser s title line Enable thumbnails For high bitrates above 700 Mbit sec the probe may feel more responsive if thumbnail picture generation is switched of...

Page 161: ...TP is selected and no NTP server is configured the probe will try to syncronize with the VBC server NTP time server The IP address or host name of the time server Time zone By setting the time zone th...

Page 162: ...disable SNMP trap transmission 6 10 2 Setup Pages The Setup Pages view allows names to be associated with different pages Individual multicasts can be assigned to different pages in the Multicasts Str...

Page 163: ...ciated SNMP trap Description A description of the color or an error indication Color The RGB color on the format XX Red XX Green XX Blue where XX represents a hexadecimal figure spanning 0 255 in deci...

Page 164: ...for management In any case make sure that the subnets for the interfaces do not overlap otherwise the probe will not work properly Dual stack functionality enables the probe to support both IPv4 and...

Page 165: ...can be used to define the IP address of the DNS server If DHCP is enabled this field is disabled and the gateway provided by the DHCP server is used 6 10 5 1 Setup Ethernet IPv6 Settings IPv6 settings...

Page 166: ...allow clients with an address outside the probe subnets to access the probe HTTP FTP SSH TELNET SNMP It is also required for the probe to access an NTP server or DNS server with IPv6 address outside...

Page 167: ...IPv4 This model is useful if there is no separate management network and both data video and management traffic are to use the same network In this configuration the probe s management network may not...

Page 168: ...nd IPv6 can be used simultaneously In theory the probe s web server can be accessed using four different IP addresses provided that the network architecture allows it 6 10 6 Setup VLANs The VB330 prob...

Page 169: ...t provided that the auto detect functionality is enabled and the VBC server address is known to the VB330 Note that the network must be transparent to traffic between the VBC server and 10G Probes for...

Page 170: ...an disable it or change the password When access control is activated a READ ONLY access message is displayed under the alarm list for users that are not logged in It will be necessary to log in each...

Page 171: ...ors Probe recognition of a number of selected private descriptors may be defined by the user 129 0x81 Disabled or AC 3 audio stream descriptor 131 0x83 Disabled or logical channel descriptor v1 134 0x...

Page 172: ...ed users can be granted permission to lock to a stream for a selectable time period If the locking mechanism works in a time limited mode a clock icon see image above is superimposed on the regular lo...

Page 173: ...er TS 80 95 Schedule for Actual TS 96 111 Schedule for Other TS 6 10 9 5 Inactive inputs It is possible to hide disabled inputs from the ETR 290 views This is convenient when one ore more inputs are n...

Page 174: ...a monitoring window different from one hour is selected by the VBC user the threshold values will be automatically recalculated to proportional values In the VBC threshold presets table the Refs colu...

Page 175: ...RTP headers MLR error Number of seconds with packet drops in the TS layer seconds when media loss rate is non zero This is equal to the number of error seconds with CC errors IAT error Number of seco...

Page 176: ...ble the Refs column shows how many references exist for each scheduling template References to scheduling templates may be found in PID and service threshold templates The search field in the upper ri...

Page 177: ...to override the default interface for out going probe traffic To override the default interface for one or more types of traffic select the interface from the drop down menu and click the Apply chang...

Page 178: ...tect as specified in the Setup VBC view Note that routing for Full Service Monitoring FSM is selected in the Ethernet FSM Setup Edit view 6 10 13 Setup Security The Setup Security view is a restricted...

Page 179: ...ssh Enables text based remote login using the encrypted ssh secure shell protocol Defaults to on Enable SNMP If SNMP is disabled no MIB is available on port 161 However SNMP traps are sent as usual on...

Page 180: ...lick the Go button and the information in the XML document will be applied The configuration stream list and thresholds exports can all be imported Configuration files generated by a probe can be impo...

Page 181: ...ould be sent along with a description of the misbehavior 6 11 2 Data Software The software section allows the 10G Probe to be upgraded to a newer software version Select the tea file from the local PC...

Page 182: ...s not cover the uploaded software version the upgrade will be aborted and the current version is kept 6 11 3 Data Table Descriptors It is possible to upload parser files to the probe adding support fo...

Page 183: ...ystems In order to facilitate integration the Data Eii view allows export of XML files containing the data typically being requested by an NMS system via the regular Eii interface Please refer to the...

Page 184: ...option The FLASH option allows a 32GB flash card to be used for storing recordings offline RDP recordings are automatically stored and PCAP recordings can also be stored in flash 184 VB3xx 10G Probe...

Page 185: ...6 12 About 6 12 1 About Release info This view shows the software version the software build date and the hardware type of the 10G Probe VB3xx 10G Probe User s Manual version 5 3 185...

Page 186: ...be imported using the Data Configuration view Please refer to D Appendix Software Maintenance for more details on software maintenance licenses Demo license When entering a demo license key will star...

Page 187: ...logies view lists some of the technologies available in the Sencore VideoBRIDGE product family 6 12 4 About Credits This view shows information about the software included with the 10G Probe VB3xx 10G...

Page 188: ...ble time period default 60 minutes sliding window This means that comparing the probe alarm list and the VBC alarm list is not very meaningful Ethernet measurement data are sent from the 10G Probe tog...

Page 189: ...Effect 10 11 12 13 14 17 18 19 2 dropped packets 15 16 Monitoring page RTPdrop 2 Alarms events RTP Packet drop 2 10 12 13 16 17 18 19 1 and 2 dropped packets 11 14 15 Monitoring page RTPdrop 3 Alarms...

Page 190: ...IP Streamer packs 7 and 7 MPEG 2 TS packets into each UDP frame mapping is 7TS UDP and the resulting frames may look like PID 50 CC 12 PID 50 CC 13 PID 50 CC 4 PID 51 CC 1 PID 51 CC 2 PID 51 CC 4 PID...

Page 191: ...aybe 6 or even 5 assuming the mapping is 7TS UDP Systems typically do not mix the mappings among their streams so there is seldom a need to remember the mapping for streams in order to interpret the e...

Page 192: ...ect the timing between two neighboring packets effectively doubling it the packet loss will always affect the IAT component for CBR streams For VBR streams that are jittery by default the extra time g...

Page 193: ...e TS layer is wrapped inside UDP packets all further processing operates on the UDP packets The pink line indicates a packet loss of 1 4 with no jitter component As a rule of thumb the co existence of...

Page 194: ...reshold too high results in a graph where almost all plots are close to the x axis and it becomes less useful to visually compare MediaWindow graphs For streams with TS UDP mapping the default MLR thr...

Page 195: ...of current status for individual channel profiles Different colors indicate status Green OK Yellow Warning Orange Error Red Major Black Fatal All enabled alarms may affect the profile health bar and...

Page 196: ...a low green graph as seen in the left hand part of the graph above When download times exceed the user defined profile bitrate warning and error thresholds the graph is colored yellow and orange resp...

Page 197: ...ther with the system itself during which new major releases can be installed The current software maintenance period is displayed in the About License view see chapter 6 12 2 for more details For an o...

Page 198: ...mber build date and possibly hardware version is usually also part of the file name E 2 Export and save the probe configuration Software upgrade should not alter the probe configuration however for sa...

Page 199: ...d and click the Go button When the software has been successfully transferred to the probe click the Save flash button and confirm Progress bars are displayed to show the flash save status Note that t...

Page 200: ...g user and password as described above When the file has been copied onto the probe the Windows Explorer window may look as shown below Step 1 alternative B Using a terminal based ftp client In a term...

Page 201: ...rade is completed Note that if the probe is powered off while saving image to flash it will not be able to reboot normally afterwards E 6 Verify the new image Connect a browser towards the probe and v...

Page 202: ...owsing data Cached images and files Mozilla Firefox Options Advanced Network Cached Web Content Clear Now Microsoft Edge Settings Clear browsing data Choose what to clear Cached data and files Microso...

Page 203: ...e refer to section 6 12 2 The license key is also printed during the factory reset process To perform a factory reset of the probe connect to it using the USB cable using the method described in secti...

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