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User Manual

for the OPERA™ Control Center Server Software V3.5

OPR-003-CTR-X
OPR-010-CTR-X

Summary of Contents for OPERA CONTROL CENTER SERVER - V 3.5

Page 1: ...rand and product names are trademarks and or registered trademarks of their respective owners All rights reserved Copyright 2002 by OPTICOM GmbH www opticom de User Manual for the OPERA Control Center Server Software V3 5 OPR 003 CTR X OPR 010 CTR X ...

Page 2: ...ult File 8 5 2 Freezing Fields 8 5 3 Selecting the Columns to Display 9 5 4 Filtering the Results 9 5 5 Alerts 11 5 6 Clearing the Result File 11 5 7 The Averages Functionality 11 5 8 Meaning of the Results 11 5 9 Archiving of the Result Files 13 5 10 Viewing Statistics 14 5 11 Printing Results 15 5 12 If No Data is Shown Even if the Result File Exists 15 6 Summary of the Menu and Toolbar Options ...

Page 3: ...note that with the Light version of the OPERA Control Center the software cannot be used to manage a distributed set of OPERA systems If you want to use the OPERA Control Center to control other systems than the local host you will need the full version For more information about this please refer to Section 8 3 in this manual The use of the OPERA Control Center is not limited to telecom applicati...

Page 4: ...equire such a locked resource will be delayed until the resources are free again Due to this locking mechanism there may be several OPERA Control Centers and OptiCall applications active on the network In order to keep the maintenance of the system easy there are two different tables used to form the command database One contains the description of the available resources on the network Phonebook ...

Page 5: ...s or with the result view of the last measurements that have been performed If you haven t performed any test calls with the Control Center yet you will create database entries for all resources you want to use in a first step see Section 3 2 The second step is to create a table with the actual commands as described in Section 3 3 3 2 Defining the Resources the Phone Book To create the resources r...

Page 6: ...paste it using Ctrl V the selection will be automatically added to the end of the table In doing so an additional index will be appended to the resource names that have been pasted automatically Please note that only those resource names may be deleted or modified which are not currently used in the Commands table Figure 3 1 The Phone Book dialog window Column Title Description ResourceName Name u...

Page 7: ... drop down list boxes which are automatically filled with the resource names defined in the Phonebook The Reschedule field is a drop down list box as well here you will find entries as e g Every Monday or Immediately When you click on a Filename field in the table a small button will appear on the right edge of the field Use this button to browse for files on your computer As described for the pho...

Page 8: ...nal delay between two command repetitions It is defined in seconds Reschedule Here you may choose when the command will be issued again Drop down list box Table 3 2 Meaning of the columns of the Commands table Note Please note that all times are specified in UTC Universal Time Coordinated in order to use the same time coordinate on measurement systems standing in different time zones During winter...

Page 9: ...manually click on Refresh Figure 4 1 depicts a typical view of the Control Center main dialog window after a measurement has run for a while Figure 4 1 The OPERA Control Center main dialog window In order to stop the measurement wait until no more commands are scheduled or press on Stop Pressing Stop may take some time since all scheduled commands active as well as sleeping commands must be interr...

Page 10: ...le Open To create a new result file select the menu option File New You may as well save the current results in another file therefore select the menu option File Save as The chosen file will immediately be opened in the result view of the OPERA Control Center 5 2 Freezing Fields It is also possible to freeze rows and columns by pulling the border line between the row with the column titles and th...

Page 11: ...all this information you may select which columns are shown and which ones are hidden Just click on the toolbar button Select Columns and check the appropriate boxes in the dialog that pops up see Figure 5 2 Figure 5 2 The Select Columns dialog window 5 4 Filtering the Results If you want to filter the results which are shown in the table there is the option to generate some filtering rules Two fi...

Page 12: ... When you confirm your filter selection with the OK button the filter condition is immediately applies on the result view To switch this filter on and off use the menu Filters Apply Connection Filter Figure 5 3 The Connection Filter dialog window In order to specify a Limit Filter use the dialog that appears after clicking on the menu Filters Edit Limit Filter This dialog allows you to select the ...

Page 13: ... pops up with a click on yes If you want to archive the results you should copy the result file to a safe location before The default location for the result file is c programme opera databases results txt As mentioned in Section 5 1 you may choose a different location on your computer where you want to store the result file 5 7 The Averages Functionality As a default the Averages functionality is...

Page 14: ... recorded at the terminating side echo signal Tpdd Post dial delay in ms including the time required to detect the ring back tone app 2 3s country specific Tring Currently not used please ignore Duration Total duration of the call including dialing etc TermCause Termination cause If it is connect the call was successful all other values busy disconnected identify missed call attempts PsqmOMOS_W2 T...

Page 15: ...rtable way anymore If you want to separate your results into a number of smaller files select the menu option Extra Options The Control Center will offer you the option to define an archive location on your computer where the result files will be stored during the execution of the test measurements As shown in Figure 5 6 you will define an archiving interval If you want to switch off the archiving...

Page 16: ...nt values the vertical axis represents the probability The second diagram presents the measurement result values versus time Here the horizontal axis represents the index in the table of the result file The vertical axis represents the values of the result parameter If you want to change the number of bars shown in the PDF diagram to have a different resolution you can either select a value from t...

Page 17: ...Result File Exists It is rare but it may happen that your result file contains field names different from those expected by the OPERA Control Center e g if you started it with a corrupt result file In this case the OPERA Control center will not show any useful data However it is easy to cope with this select View Reset Field Names from the menu This will synchronize the field names used by the Con...

Page 18: ...lerts Opens a dialog to define a alert functionality see Section 5 5 View Toolbar Switches on off the toolbar View Statusbar Switches on off the statusbar View Show Averages Switches on off the averages functionality View Refresh Refreshes the result view see Section 4 View Reset Field Names Synchronizes the field names of the current result file with the result view of the Control Center see Sect...

Page 19: ... reference computer The TS program has already been installed if an OPERA Control Center license has been included in the order of an OPERA system To install the time synchronization program you have to right click on the TimeSync inf file and choose the command install This script will install the Time Synchronization service and the control panel applet A dialog window as shown in Figure 7 1 wil...

Page 20: ... whether the service shall be executed After confirming with the Yes button the Time Synchronization service will run After the Time Synchronization service has been installed and started the computer time will be synchronized within the time interval defined in the settings dialog If the TS program has already been installed on the computer the TS program is executed by right clicking on the Time...

Page 21: ...t Version of the OPERA Control Center Software There are two versions of the OPERA Control Center Software available a full version and a light version To see which version is currently at your disposal check the title bar of the OPERA Control Center main window The full version is indicated by the string OPERA Control Center the light version is titled OPERA Control Center Light The light version...

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