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PVA-3000 Reference Manual
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The Main Menu also includes several controls that
are always present regardless of tab sub-menu
selected. The
Select Chassis button enables PVA
Interactive to connect to another PVA Chassis
address. This topic will be addressed in Section
3.5 below.
The
Update Status button performs a link status
check and reports link state and link rate. It
should be noted that this operation is done without
any reconfigurations of or impact to the Link
Monitor resource described in Section 3.9 below.
If the test port is not linked, all three link rate
“LED’s” will be off (grey). If the port is linked,
the LED corresponding to the current link rate will
light green. This status is not continuously
updated – it is only updated when various menu
operations are completed (e.g. meter
measurements) and when the
Update Status
button is pressed.
The
Close button will terminate PVA Interactive
software.
3.4. Loading and Saving DUT Configurations
Section 2.3.4 introduced the concept of DUT specific configuration files. These allow the re-direction of automated
test reporting into subdirectories that are specific to a particular device-under-test (DUT). Without using DUT specific
configurations, all test reporting will appear in a default subdirectory
named for the PVA chassis address. DUT specific configurations
files also contain other information that may be used by future
versions of PVA software.
A DUT specific configuration file can be created, saved, and loaded
using the
File drop-down menus ( see Figure 3.4 ) in the Main Menu.
To load a particular DUT configuration file, the Load Config option
is selected and a file selection dialog as shown in Figure 3.5 appears.
When
Open is pressed, the selected file is loaded and any settings
within that file become active.
The Save Config
option opens a
dialog (
see
Figure 3.6)
where each DUT-specific configuration setting may be specified
and a file name assigned where the settings will be stored. These
mostly intuitive settings are explained in Section 2.3.4.
The Results Path (subdirectory) for DUT-specific
reporting will by default appear under the standard
/Results/ subdirectory used for all PVA reporting. Users
may elect to route reporting to another subdirectory
elsewhere using the
Browse control.
Figure 3.5 Loading a DUT Configuration File
Figure 3.6 Creating a DUT Configuration File
Figure 3.3 PVA Interactive Main Menu
Figure 3.4 [File] Drop Down Selections