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VB330-SW 10G Software Probe

Applies to software release v5.5

Form 8160C • February 2019

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VB330-SW 10G Software Probe User’s Manual

Revision 924720e (2019-02-27)

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Sencore is an engineering leader in the development of high-quality signal transmission solutions for the broadcast, cable, satellite, IPTV, and telecommunications markets. The company’s world-class portfolio includes video delivery products, system monitoring and analysis solutions, and test and measurement equipment, all designed to support system interoperability and backed by best-in-class customer support. Sencore products meet the rapidly changing needs of modern media by ensuring the efﬁcient delivery of high-quality video from the source to the home. More information about Sencore is available at the company’s website, www.sencore.com.

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Contents 3

Document Revision History 7

1 INTRODUCTION 8

1.1 About the 10G Software Probe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

1.1.1 VB330-SW – Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

1.1.2 10G Software Probe – Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

1.2 How to Use This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2 PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION 11

3 INSTALLATION AND INITIAL SETUP 13

3.1 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3.2 First-time Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.3 Deploying in a Virtualized Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3.4 Verifying Correct Initial Setup and Software Activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3.5 Initial Setup Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.6 Upgrading From a Previous Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.6.1 Upgrading by Re-Installing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

3.6.2 Upgrading From Version 5.3.0 or later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

3.7 Upgrading To a Maintenance Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

3.8 Accessing the User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

3.9 Accessing Software Activation interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

3.10 Deactivating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

4 QUICK SETUP GUIDE 22

4.1 Basic Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

4.2 Input Signal Deﬁnitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

4.2.1 Multicasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

4.2.2 OTT Input (OTT Engine Option Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

4.3 Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

4.4 Adjusting Alarm Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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5 THE SOFTWARE PROBE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE 25

5.1 Main . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

5.1.1 Main — Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

5.1.2 Main — CPU usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

5.1.3 Main — Thumb overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

5.1.4 Main — Eii graphing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

5.2 Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

5.2.1 Alarms — All Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

5.2.2 Alarms — Alarm setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

5.3 OTT (Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

5.3.1 OTT — Active testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

5.3.2 OTT — Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

5.3.2.1 OTT — Details — Proﬁles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

5.3.2.2 OTT — Details — Manifest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

5.3.2.3 OTT — Details — Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

5.3.2.4 OTT — Details — Thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

5.3.2.5 OTT — Details — Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

5.3.3 OTT — Latency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

5.3.4 OTT — Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

5.3.5 OTT — Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

5.3.6 OTT — Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

5.4 Multicasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

5.4.1 Multicasts — Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

5.4.2 Multicasts — Parameters — Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

5.4.3 Multicasts — Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

5.4.4 Multicasts — History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

5.4.5 Multicasts — Detect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

5.4.6 Multicasts — SAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

5.4.7 Multicasts — Join . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

5.4.8 Multicasts — Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

5.4.9 Multicasts — Ethernet thresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

5.5 MW (Media Window) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

5.5.1 Media Window — Selected channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

5.5.2 Media Window — Bandwidth graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

5.5.3 Media Window — Inter Arrival Time graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

5.6 RDP (Return Data Path) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

5.6.1 RDP — Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

5.6.2 RDP — Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

5.7 Trafﬁc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

5.7.1 Trafﬁc — Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

5.7.2 Trafﬁc — Detect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

5.7.3 Trafﬁc — Filter statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

5.7.4 Trafﬁc — Filter setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

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5.7.5 Trafﬁc — Microbitrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

5.8 Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

5.8.1 Ethernet — FSM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

5.8.1.1 Ethernet — FSM — Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

5.8.1.2 Ethernet — FSM — Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

5.8.1.3 Ethernet — FSM — Syslog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

5.8.2 Ethernet — IGMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

5.8.3 Ethernet — PCAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

5.9 ETR 290 (Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

5.9.1 ETR 290 — ETR Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

5.9.2 ETR 290 — ETR Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

5.9.3 ETR 290 — PIDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

5.9.4 ETR 290 — Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

5.9.5 ETR 290 — Bitrates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

5.9.6 ETR 290 — Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

5.9.7 ETR 290 — PCR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

5.9.8 ETR 290 — T2MI (requires T2MI-OPT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

5.9.9 ETR 290 — SCTE 35 (requires SCTE35-OPT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

5.9.10 ETR 290 — Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

5.9.11 ETR 290 — Compare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

5.9.12 ETR 290 — ETR threshold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

5.9.13 ETR 290 — PID thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

5.9.14 ETR 290 — Service thresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

5.9.15 ETR 290 — Gold TS thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

5.10 Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

5.10.1 Setup — Params . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

5.10.2 Setup — Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

5.10.3 Setup — Colors (requires EXTRACT-OPT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

5.10.4 Setup — Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

5.10.5 Setup — VBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

5.10.6 Setup — Login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

5.10.7 Setup — ETR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

5.10.8 Setup — VBC thresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

5.10.9 Setup — Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

5.10.10Setup — Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

5.10.11Setup — Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

5.10.11.1Setup — Security — Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

5.11 Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

5.11.1 Data — Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

5.11.2 Data — Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

5.11.3 Data — Table Descriptors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

5.11.4 Data — Eii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

5.12 About . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

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5.12.1 About — Release info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

5.12.2 About — License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

5.12.3 About — Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

5.12.4 About — Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

5.12.5 About — System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

A Appendix: VB330-SW Versus VBC Alarms 183

B Appendix: Monitoring Practices 185

B.1 RTP Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

B.2 Default Multicast Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

B.3 Strategy for MediaWindow Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

B.3.1 IAT Before and After Router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

B.3.2 Identifying UDP Packet Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

B.4 Multicast Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

B.5 Dedicated interface for OTT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

B.6 OTT descrambling with Verimatrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

B.7 OTT Bandwidth requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

C Appendix: OTT Proﬁle Health 191

C.1 OTT Proﬁle Health Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

C.2 OTT Proﬁle Health Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

D Appendix: Network conﬁguration 193

D.1 Web-based conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

D.2 Command-line based conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

E Appendix: Enabling HTTPS 198

F Appendix: Enabling NTP time synchronization 202

G Appendix: On-line License Veriﬁcation 203

G.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

G.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

H Appendix: Software Maintenance 206

I Appendix: Software Upload 207

I.1 Obtain the software image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

I.2 Export and save the probe conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

I.3 Transfer the image to the probe and save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

I.4 Wait while the software is being saved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

I.5 Verify the new image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

I.6 Software upload troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

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Document Revision History

Date Version Description

February 2019 5.5 Updated manual to reﬂect changes in v5.5 software

February 2018 5.4 Updated manual to reﬂect changes in v5.4 software

February 2017 5.3 Updated manual 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 manual to reﬂect changes in v5.0 software

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1 INTRODUCTION

SUPER HEADEND

CORE NETWORK REGIONAL METRO NETWOR K

STB

PHONE PADTV

ACCESS NETWORK

DSLAM OR

FIBRE

AGGREGATION

VB330 PROBE VB288 CONTENT EXTRACTOR

VB330 PROBE

VB220 PROBE

microVB™

HOME NETWORK

MDC

– MicroDEVICE Controller

™

VBC

– VideoBRIDGE Controller

™

Remote Video Wall – Site 1

DIGITAL TERRESTRIAL

REGIONAL MUX AND COFDM MODULATOR

GPS

COFDM

ASI

CABLE DISTRIBUTION

REGIONAL MONITORING OF SATELLITE AND IP

IP ASI QPSK/

DVB-S/S2

DIGITAL SATELLITE

REGIONAL MUX AND QAM MODULATOR

IP ASI QAM

REGIONAL

CABLE

NETWORK

VB120 PROBE & VB252 DVB-T/T2 MODULEVB120 PROBE & VB272 QPSK/DVB-S/S2 MODULE

VB12-RF PROBE

VB120 PROBE & VB262 QAM/VSB DVB-C MODULE

1.1 About the 10G Software Probe

1.1.1 VB330-SW – Overview

The VB330-SW 10G Software Probe was made speciﬁcally for IPTV backbone network monitoring. With support for 10 Gbit/s Ethernet inputs, the 10G Software Probe provides detailed IP packet

monitoring of a very high number of Ethernet streams, suitable for core networks carrying extreme amounts of media signals.

The OTT software option is available on the VB330-SW and enables monitoring of up to 500

adaptive bitrate channels in steps of 5 or 50 (Bulk OTT option) OTT engines depending on licensing.

A built-in web server in the VB330-SW allows remote signal monitoring using a standard web

browser. This can be managed either through a separate Ethernet network, or by using the regular

video/data network – both IPv4 and IPv6 are supported.

The VB330-SW 10G Software Probe can also be managed via the VideoBRIDGE Controller. The VideoBRIDGE Controller will add management features like alarm aggregation and report

functionality.

The 10G Software Probe is a server appliance, that can be installed onto any server that meets

the minimum requirements speciﬁed in chapter 3.

1.1.2 10G Software Probe – Functionality

An IP-based network is fully transparent with respect to signal contents quality, provided that the IP

packets arrive, and provided that they arrive in time. The 10G Software Probe therefore uses the

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patented MediaWindow to allow monitoring at-a-glance of packet loss and errors in inter-packet arrival time. This way the operator can conveniently ensure correct signal quality at IP-level.

The advanced Ethernet protocol analysis tool automatically detects all protocols carried over Ethernet

past the port the 10G Software Probe is connected to, and it displays statistics like percentage utilization of the interface and percentage of the different transported protocols. This gives the 10G Software Probe a real-time sniffer capability.

The 10G Software Probe allows the user to deﬁne a Return Data Path (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 allows the user to record a stream, either triggered manually by the user

or triggered by a user deﬁned alarm.

Full Service Monitoring (FSM) checks that vital system components like CA-servers are active.

Optional Ethernet TR 290 monitoring allows the operator to check parameters like transport stream sync and PSI/SI standards conformity. This option also performs further PSI/SI analysis, making it possible to view PSI/SI contents. PID and service bitrates are also continuously measured.

Optional OTT monitoring allows the operator to set up active testing of Over-the-top type signals as found in adaptive bitrate streaming architectures. Formats supported include Apple™HLS, Microsoft ™ Smoothstream, RTMP, MPEG DASH, Adobe ™ HDS and Nullsoft SHOUTcast™.

The 10G Software Probe can be expanded through license options to monitor the T2MI protocol

layer as found in DVB-T2 networks.

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The 10G Software Probe can also be licensed with an SCTE 35 option that allows monitoring and

logging of splice time codes embedded in the transport streams.

1.2 How to Use This Manual

This User’s Manual is valid for software version 5.5 of the VB330-SW 10G Software Probe.

Throughout this manual the term stream is often used rather than unicast or multicast. One stream

may consist of one or more services, and refers to one IP uni- or multicast.

Chapter 2 PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION provides a simpliﬁed block-diagram overview of the probe.

Chapter 3 INSTALLATION AND INITIAL SETUP explains how to install the software on a server.

Chapter 4 QUICK SETUP GUIDE contains a quick setup guide; a step-by-step description of how to setup the 10G Software Probe once the initial setup has been performed.

Chapter 5 THE SOFTWARE PROBE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE describes the graphical user interface (GUI) as seen when pointing a web browser to the 10G Software Probe’s IP address.

A Appendix: VB330-SW Versus VBC Alarms describes the alarm handling in the 10G Software

Probe versus the VideoBRIDGE Controller.

B Appendix: Monitoring Practices explains some useful monitoring practices.

C Appendix: OTT Proﬁle Health explains the OTT proﬁle health bar and timeline.

D Appendix: Network conﬁguration gives a brief introduction to the server OS network conﬁguration.

F Appendix: Enabling NTP time synchronization provides some basic information about setting up time synchronization.

G Appendix: On-line License Veriﬁcation outlines the on-line license veriﬁcation procedure.

H Appendix: Software Maintenance brieﬂy describes software maintenance licenses and how they are used.

I Appendix: Software Upload explains how to upgrade the software on the 10G Software Probe.

Note that current version of the User’s Manual can be obtained from Sencore ProCare support by emailing procare@sencore.com.

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2 PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION

The VB330-SW 10G Software Probe can utilize all the network interfaces on the host system. The

user selects which interface to be used by the monitoring engine. Management of the 10G Software Probe is conﬁgured in the operating system web server setup1.

VB330-SW Software

Ethernet Management

SNMP Traps

Main network port

Monitoring Engine

Optional network port(s)

Figure 2.1: The VB330-SW Software – Principle of Operation

A simpliﬁed diagram of the alarm handling mechanisms of the 10G Software Probe is shown in

ﬁgure 2.2. The input signals are continuously analyzed, and measured data are checked against user deﬁned threshold values. If the data do not comply with the threshold values alarms will be generated. The overall alarm settings further make it possible to enable and disable alarms, thus deﬁning which alarms should be reported in the 10G Software Probe alarm list and sent as SNMP traps to an external management system.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/System_

Administrators_Guide/ch-Web_Servers.html

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Signal

Measurements

Threshold

Settings

Alarm

Settings

SNMP

Alarms

Alarm

Lists

Figure 2.2: Simpliﬁed Diagram of the Alarm Handling in the 10G Software Probe

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3 INSTALLATION AND INITIAL SETUP

3.1 System Requirements

The minimum hardware requirements for virtualized or natively running Software Probe with

performance similar to or better than VB330:

• Intel XEON D-1537 1.7 GHz, 12 Mbyte Cache, 8 cores

• 8 Gbyte RAM

• 100 Gbyte HDD

• 10 Gbit/s Network Interface card for data: Intel X550/X552/X557

•

Additional 10/100/1000T Ethernet Network Interface card with support for CentOS Linux 7 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for management

•

Note that there are motherboards with the 10Gbit/s NICs referred to above built-in. The XEON D family of CPUs has built-in support for these 10 Gbit/s NICs.

The Software Probe can be license upgraded to a higher bitrate independently of the hardware. It

may thus be useful to obtain better hardware which allows for future license upgrade.

Recommended NICs

Interface NIC Notes

1G BASE-T Intel I340 and Intel

I350

RJ45 connector. Dual or single input.

10G BASE-T Intel X550-T2 (dual) RJ45 connector.

Dual or single input. Supports 100Mb/1GbE/2.5GbE/5GbE/10GbE.

10G SFP28 Mellanox ConnectX-4

Lx 10gbe

25G SFP28 Mellanox ConnectX-4

Lx 25gbe

100G QSFP28 Mellanox ConnectX-5

Ex 100gbe PCIe 4.0

Supported platforms:

• CentOS Linux release 7 (7.3–7.6) for x86_64

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SFP+ compatible connector. Dual or single input. Supports 1/10GbE.

Dual or single input. Also available for OCP with Host Management. Supports 1/10/25GbE.

Dual or single input. Supports 1/10/25/40/50/100GbE.

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• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7 (7.3–7.6) for x86_64

If the system is upgraded to an unsupported operating system release, an error message will be displayed in the Application notiﬁcation menu upon accessing the user interface. Check the release notes available for the currently installed software version before updating to a new operating system release.

3.2 First-time Installation

Make sure that the server hardware matches the requirements listed above and then follow the procedure outlined below.

1. Obtain the latest installation kickstart image from Sencore.

Installation media is provided both for CentOS Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you install the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version, you will need an active subscription for Red Hat Enterprise Linux server.

2. Insert the installation medium into the server:

•

For DVD-based installations, burn the downloaded ISO image to a DVD and insert into the server.

•

For USB-based installation, transfer the downloaded image to a USB mass storage device using a tool such as dd (Mac, Unix, Linux) or USBWriter1(Windows).

•

For installation in a virtualized environment, attach the downloaded ISO image to a virtual DVD-ROM unit.

Note:

Please read the advice on how to conﬁgure the virtual machine in section 3.3 to

ensure optimal performance.

Boot the server and make sure that the primary boot device is set appropriately. If the system fails to boot from the medium, you may need to conﬁgure the boot loader for ‘legacy BIOS mode’.

The installer will run, please follow the on-screen prompts to install the system, taking note of the following:

• IMPORTANT: Leave ‘Software selection’ at ‘Custom software selected’.

• IMPORTANT:

large

/home

In the ‘Installation Destination’, the default partitioning will create a

partition, which is unused. To avoid this, use the ‘I will conﬁgure partitioning’ option. Then use the ‘Click here to create them automatically’ and manually reduce the size of (or remove) the /home partition, instead giving that space to the / partition.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/usbwriter/

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• We recommend that you conﬁgure network settings (IP address, gateway, DNS) within

the installer. Post-installation network conﬁguration can be performed using the nmtui utility, please refer to D Appendix: Network conﬁguration for details.

•

The default installation does not provide any graphical user interface environment. This can be installed later if desired, please refer to the CentOS Linux2or Red Hat Enterprise Linux3documentation for more details.

At the end of the installation procedure, the server is rebooted. Remove the installation media and ensure that the system boots up properly.

If you installed the Red Hat Enterprise Linux server ﬂavor, make sure you follow the instructions on how to subscribe the system to the Red Hat Customer Portal4.

If you install the CentOS Linux ﬂavor, you may want to enable the Continuous Release repository5to be able to get access to security updates as quickly as possible.

Enter the selected IP address in your web browser to access the Software Activation page. If your host is using dynamic addressing, you can log in to the account created during installation and issue the command ip addr to display the address assigned to the system.

Continue to chapter 3.4 for details on how to enable the 10G Software Probe system.

The kickstart will install CentOS Linux 7 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 on the server. The disks will be formatted and all contents lost. Make sure that any important data on the server has been backed up before beginning the procedure.

3.3 Deploying in a Virtualized Environment

It is also possible to deploy the software in a virtualized environment. For optimal performance, check the processor conﬁguration of conﬁguration setting of cores per virtual sockets on the virtual machine.

For accurate measurements, you must conﬁgure the data network interface card(s) in mode on the host server.

Please follow the steps from chapter 3.2 when installing the software in the virtualized environment.

We recommended

disabling

any ‘Easy install’ or similarly worded option, and not selecting the operating system type when initially creating the new virtual machine instance in your virtualization environment. These options may override the installation instructions included in the provided installation image, causing an incomplete installation.

https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/index.html

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/253273

https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR

cores per socket

on your host server and use the same

pass-through

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Pre-built images for VMware (vSphere/Workstation/Player) are provided in

OVA

(Open Virtualization Format Archive) format. These images contains a system already installed according to the steps described in the previous chapter, with VMware Tools already installed and activated.

To deploy the image, you need to import it to the virtualization host, please refer to the documentation

of your virtualization environment for more details on how to do this.

If installed in a VMware vSphere environment, the machine should report back its network conﬁguration to the host environment. Please allow some time for it to do so, and then continue with point 6 as described in the previous chapter.

When logging in to the console of the pre-built images, the default password for the The same password is also used for logging in remotely using Secure Shell (ssh).

the password for the root user after ﬁnishing the install

, log in and use the

root

Please change

passwd

command to

user is

do this.

3.4 Verifying Correct Initial Setup and Software Activation

Once the software has been installed and restarted all further conﬁguration takes place through the

web interface.

1. Launch a web browser application on the management system.

Any web browser with support for JavaScript can be used to access the Software Activation interface, one of the following are recommended:

• Google Chrome

• Mozilla Firefox

• Microsoft Edge

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 or higher

• Apple Safari

elvis

2. Type the IP address of the server in the browser URL ﬁeld and press Enter .

The network settings should have been set when the operating system was installed. If the web browser is unable to reach the web server, check the server’s network settings in the operating system.

The Software Activation view should be displayed inside the browser. Software Activation is password-protected, the user name is

admin

and the default password is

elvis

displayed should look similar to ﬁgure 3.1.

The password should be changed from the default. Expand the

More options

heading and

follow the instructions under Change password6.

If you forget the Software Activation password, you can reset it by logging in as root and issuing the command

/opt/btech/ssg/bin/reset_web_password

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Figure 3.1: Software Activation

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If you already have an XML ﬁle with license keys for your system, click on the heading and upload this ﬁle under the written down or in an e-mail, instead use the product page described below.

If this is a new server, and you need to obtain license keys for the purchased products, please click the link labeled sales representative as an e-mail attachment.

The 10G Software Probe is not enabled by default on the newly installed server. To enable it, use the link labeled the details of the installed software, such as the installed version and the hardware key. If you have a license key that you want to enable and have not yet done so, enter the key in the ﬁeld labeled Apply license key and click the Add license button.

Click the button labeled Software Probe should now be activated, and you will be presented with a link to the user interface. The next time you access the server using a web browser, you should be taken automatically to the enabled software.

Please note that it may take some additional time before the user interface of the activated product becomes available. If you receive an error trying to access it, please wait for a few minutes before trying again.

export hardware keys as XML

Not activated

Activate software

Import license keys

next to its name. This will take you to a page giving you

and wait for it to ﬁnish. If successful, the 10G

option. If you have the license key

and send the downloaded ﬁle to your

More options

Note that it is not possible to activate the Software Probe and the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor on a single system at the same time.

To return to the Software Activation view to make changes, open the 10G Software Probe user interface and click the link labeled Manage installed software.

By default, all web communication to and from the host running the 10G Software Probe is using un-encrypted HTTP communication. Please refer to E Appendix: Enabling HTTPS for information on how to enable HTTPS.

It is

strongly recommended

external NTP server. Please refer to F Appendix: Enabling NTP time synchronization for more information on conﬁguring time synchronization.

that the system time is conﬁgured to be synchronized against an

About — License

3.5 Initial Setup Troubleshooting

If you are having trouble bringing up the Software Activation interface, or the 10G Software Probe

web based management interface, verify the following:

•

Verify that the client machine and the 10G Software Probe are conﬁgured on the same subnet and that they have different addresses, or, if you use different subnets, verify that the routing and gateways are set correctly on both the client machine and the 10G Software Probe.

tab in the

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• Make sure that the IP address of the gateway and the network interface are not the same.

•

Verify that the appropriate Ethernet link indicators of the PC and the 10G Software Probe are lit.

• Verify that web browser proxy settings are not interfering.

• Verify that local ﬁrewall settings on the PC are not interfering.

• Try rebooting the server and make sure all services start as expected.

• Clear the browser’s cache.

• Verify that the web server is running, by entering the command

systemctl status httpd

on the server’s command line. If it is not running properly, or you are seeing

DNS lookup

failure errors, try issuing the command

echo "ServerName localhost" >> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

and then restart the server by issuing the command

systemctl restart httpd

•

If you can reach Software Activation but the 10G Software Probe GUI is not working, enter the command

probehello

on the server’s command line to verify that the VB330-SW services

are running. If services are not running, try re-installing the VB330-SW.

Please refer to D Appendix: Network conﬁguration for more information on server network conﬁguration.

3.6 Upgrading From a Previous Version

You can either re-install the system as mentioned below, or by using one of the provided upgrade

images.

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3.6.1 Upgrading by Re-Installing the System

If you want to re-install the system from scratch, please follow these steps:

1. Backup the system conﬁguration (Data — Conﬁguration — Full conﬁguration).

Export the current license ( maintenance keys).

Possibly back up the system network conﬁguration by logging in to the machine and copying any ﬁles matching the wildcard (off the system).

4. Re-install the system as described above.

Using the Software Activation page import the previous license key (under re-enter it using the activation page) and activate the software.

6. Import the conﬁguration from Data — Conﬁguration — Import conﬁguration XML.

About — License — Export current license and software

/etc/sysconﬁg/network-scripts/ifcfg-*

to a safe location

More options

3.6.2 Upgrading From Version 5.3.0 or later

Please refer to chapter 5.11.2 and I Appendix: Software Upload for details on how to install the upgrade image.

); or

3.7 Upgrading To a Maintenance Release

Please refer to chapter 5.11.2 and I Appendix: Software Upload for details on how to upgrade to maintenance releases.

3.8 Accessing the User Interface

Once the software has been installed and activated all further conﬁguration takes place through HTTP.

The following web browsers are supported for the management interface:

• Google Chrome

• Mozilla Firefox

• Microsoft Edge

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 or higher

• Apple Safari

The default management view should look similar to ﬁgure 3.2. If you have problems accessing the

user interface, refer to chapter 3.5 for troubleshooting.

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Figure 3.2: The VB330-SW Graphical User Interface

3.9 Accessing Software Activation interface

To return to the Software Activation view after activating the 10G Software Probe, you can either

navigate to the

your web browser to the address

using DNS) of the server.

About — License

view and follow the

http://<IP>/ssg

Manage installed software

, where

<IP>

is the IP address (or host name, if

link, or navigate

3.10 Deactivating

To deactivate 10G Software Probe, you must ﬁrst access the Software Activation interface (see the

previous section) and make sure that it is not set to the default. Expand the and change the setting under Set default software.

More options

heading

Once this is done, access the 10G Software Probe user interface and de-activate it from the

— License view.

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4 QUICK SETUP GUIDE

This quick setup guide is intended to provide a step-by-step explanation of how to setup a probe

once the initial setup has been performed (as described in chapter 3).

More detailed instructions are found in chapter 5 of this manual.

The Return Data Path and Full Service Monitoring features are not covered by this quick setup

guide.

4.1 Basic Setup

1. Set appropriate parameters in the Setup — Params view.

Enabling Time synchronization is strongly recommended. Please see F Appendix: Enabling NTP time synchronization for further details on how to conﬁgure the date and time.

3. If access control is required, deﬁne a password in the Setup — Login view.

Note:

chapter 5.10.6.

it is important to read the instructions in the associated section of this manual, see

4.2 Input Signal Deﬁnitions

4.2.1 Multicasts

Deﬁne multicasts using the lists from another probe using the either by using the multicast detect feature in the announced streams using the Multicasts — SAP view.

Note:

received, and in this case it will usually not be possible to detect multicasts automatically.

Select predeﬁned threshold templates that seem appropriate for the signal.

Note:

multicasts correctly if required. Also note that ETR 290 monitoring for Ethernet streams is disabled by default, so if this is required, it will have to be enabled by the user (on a per-stream basis).

2. Deﬁne stream page name(s) in the Setup — Pages view (not strictly necessary).

Often upstream equipment will not transmit multicasts unless join messages have been

The sequence of the multicast deﬁnitions will be reﬂected in monitoring, so order the

Multicasts — Streams

view. You can also import multicast

Data — Conﬁguration

Multicasts — Detect

view, or add them automatically,

view, or from SAP

3. Join multicasts in the Multicasts — Join view or in the Multicasts — Streams view.

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4.2.2 OTT Input (OTT Engine Option Only)

Deﬁne the OTT channel manifest URLs and channel names in the Leave the Threshold and VBC threshold settings at default values for now. Remember to tick the Enable box in the dialog box. If you have multiple OTT engines installed (1 to 50 are allowed) then select which engine to assign to the channel. Any number of OTT channels can be assigned to each OTT engine. Each engine works in parallel to each other.

OTT — Channels

view.

Note:

different network interfaces. Mixing the two trafﬁc types on the same network can have unwanted impact on the monitored signals. The interface used for OTT trafﬁc is controlled using the Setup — Routing view.

Inspect the OTT monitoring progress using the mation on OTT monitoring can be found in Appendix C.

When monitoring both multicast (UDP) and OTT (TCP) trafﬁc, we recommend using

OTT — Active testing

dialog. Useful infor-

4.3 Monitoring

When input signal parameters have been set, the signals may be monitored.

For Ethernet multicasts the relevant monitoring views are and

Ethernet

ETR 290 and OTT are of relevance as well.

Ethernet monitoring hints are found in B Appendix: Monitoring Practices.

. If the probe is equipped with the ETR 290 and/or the OTT option then the views

Main,Alarms,Multicasts,MW,Trafﬁc

4.4 Adjusting Alarm Thresholds

When the probe inputs and streams have been deﬁned using default thresholds, the result will usually

be a number of more or less permanent alarms, some which may not be relevant under the current circumstances. In order for the user to get rid of unwanted alarms, the probe provides alarm ﬁltering functionality in the form of alarm thresholds and alarm on/off selection.

Multicasts

By default Ethernet thresholds are set to raise alarms when service affecting errors occur, that are caused by the network. There may however be reasons for these thresholds to be altered, for instance to reﬂect receiver robustness in the case of IAT, or to reﬂect a TS into IP mapping different from the default (7TS/UDP). Creating a new threshold template is done either by copying an existing one and altering the copy, or by creating a new threshold template from scratch. The Ethernet thresholds are deﬁned in the in the Multicasts — Streams view.

In addition to the miscellaneous thresholds, that affect only the streams with which they are associated, the overall basis. You can also deﬁne the alarm severity levels for different alarms in this view.

Multicasts — Ethernet thresh.

Alarm — Alarm setup

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view allows the user to enable and disable alarms on an

view. These thresholds are associated with streams

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OTT

When an OTT channel is deﬁned the default OTT threshold template is assigned to it. To change

threshold values create one or more new templates in the

OTT — Thresholds

view and assign them

to OTT channels in the OTT — Channels — Edit view.

ETR 290

By default the streams conﬁgured in the probe will be set up to use the ETR 290 threshold named

Default

systems and only alarm on more severe problems. The threshold named

. This has the most important alarms enabled but have been adjusted to match real world

ETSI TR 101 290

is based 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 requires alarm functionality that exceeds the ETR 290 guidelines. The ETR engines has a lot of powerful functionality not enabled by default, for instance the ability to raise alarms if the number of services present in a signal is lower than a preset limit.

The default PID and service thresholds do not affect alarming at all, they are completely transparent. The thresholds may be altered for instance in order to mask an alarm generated by an unreferenced

PID or to ensure an alarm is raised if a service or PID bitrate is outside preset limits.

Creating a new threshold template is done either by copying an existing one and altering the copy, or by creating a new threshold template from scratch. The thresholds are deﬁned in these views: ETR 290 — ETR thresh., ETR 290 — PID thresh., ETR 290 — Service thresh.

The thresholds are associated with streams in the Multicasts — Streams — Edit view.

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5 THE SOFTWARE PROBE GRAPHICAL USER

INTERFACE

The VB330-SW web interface is reached by pointing a web browser to the IP address of the 10G

Software Probe as shown in the screenshot above. The following web browsers are recommended:

• Google Chrome

• Mozilla Firefox

• Microsoft Edge

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 or higher

• Apple Safari

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Note that different web browsers behave differently with respect to memory leaking, and if the

VB330-SW GUI should be available at all times the browser should be selected carefully. A browser

memory leak manifests itself as the browser responding more and more slowly, and this is corrected by closing down the application and restarting.

The interface is easy and intuitive to use. Navigate by clicking on the tabs just below the 10G

Software 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 referred to as the alarm list can be displayed or hidden by clicking the

Toggle

link, which is displayed as an arrow

alarm list

. The

head.

The web interface has been designed to be resizable in both vertical and horizontal directions with a

minimum screen resolution of 1280×800 pixels.

Tool-tips are available for most buttons and labels. To access tool-tip information simply navigate

the mouse pointer towards a button or a label and leave it hovering for a second or two.

In this manual the term stream is generally used instead of the terms multicast and/or unicast. A stream may thus contain a single service or multiple services.

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5.1 Main

5.1.1 Main — Summary

The intention of this page, together with the

alarm list

, is to provide enough information for the

operator to immediately see if there is anything seriously wrong with one or more input streams.

The following parameters are shown:

NTP/timesync

(Bulb):

The NTP/timesync bulb indicates whether the VB330-SW clock is locked to an external time reference signal. Green indicates that the VB330-SW is locked to an external reference whereas grey indicates that the VB330-SW runs in unlocked mode or the status is unknown.

Updated: The time since the last time synchronization update.

Freq offset: Indicates the measured frequency offset for the system clock.

Timezone: The time zone relative to UTC. Conﬁgured in the OS.

Time: The current local time.

We recommend using the standard operating system tools for conﬁguring the system clock. Please

refer to the operating system instructions1for further details on how to conﬁgure the date and time.

RDP

(Bulb):

The RDP bulb indicates whether RDP is active or not. Green indicates RDP active whereas grey indicates that RDP is currently not active.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/System_

Administrators_Guide/chap-Conﬁguring_the_Date_and_Time.html

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Active:

Clear all:

The RDP active state is either yes or no, yes indicating that RDP relaying or alarm triggered recording mode has been selected by the operator in the RDP view.

Counters and alarms

Click the

Clear all

button to reset all counters, graphs and alarms. All VB330SW measurement and alarm history is cleared. Note that it is not possible to undo this operation.

Last cleared:

The time the

Clear all

button was last clicked. If no time is indicated the counters

have not been cleared since VB330-SW startup/reboot time.

Probe

Name: The VB330-SW name as deﬁned by the operator in the Setup — Params view.

Location: The VB330-SW location as deﬁned by the operator in the Setup — Params view.

Access:

The access rights of the current user. Access rights are either full access or read only access, and are deﬁned by the operator in the Setup — Login view.

Trafﬁc

RX data: The total bitrate of received data trafﬁc

Monitored data:

The total bitrate of multicasts and unicasts monitored (analyzed) by the probe

ETH info

Joined: The number of joined streams (multicasts and unicasts)

Unicasts: The number of unicasts currently being joined/monitored by the probe

Multicasts: The number of multicasts currently 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 case

IGMPv3 is used.

VLAN tag:

The VLAN tag currently used by the probe. If no VLAN tag has been speciﬁed by the operator (Setup — Params view), the VLAN tag value will read disabled.

ETH alarms per type

No signal: The number of currently active Ethernet ‘No signal’ alarms

CC skips: The number of currently active Ethernet ‘CC skips’ alarms

MLR>=thresh:

The number of currently active Ethernet MLR alarms, i.e. the total number of

‘MLR>= warning-threshold’ and ‘MLR>= alarm-threshold’ alarms

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IAT>=thresh:

The number of currently active Ethernet IAT alarms, i.e. the total number of

‘IAT>= warning-threshold’ and ‘IAT>= alarm-threshold’ alarms

RTP alarms:

The number of currently active RTP alarms, i.e. the total number of ‘RTP packet drop’, ‘RTP duplicates’ and ‘RTP out of order’ alarms

Other alarms:

The total number of currently active Ethernet alarms not included in the alarm ﬁgures speciﬁed above

OTT info

Channels: The number of enabled OTT channels.

Proﬁles: The total number of proﬁles in the enabled OTT channels.

At the very bottom of the Summary page, an overview of the Ethernet network interfaces on the VB330-SW are displayed.

Network interfaces

Interface: The ID of the selected network interface.

Link: Indicates whether the interface is connected.

Description: Provides a human-readable description of the interface, if available2.

IPv4 address: Lists the IPv4 address and netmask of the network interface, if set.

IPv6 address: Lists the IPv6 address and netmask of the network interface, if set.

Timestamp:

Indicates whether the network interface supports hardware timestamping for precise measurements, or if kernel timestamping is used.

A description can be set using the command ip link set interfacename alias "Description"

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5.1.2 Main — CPU usage

The

CPU usage

trafﬁc load.

view is meant for troubleshooting performance issues in case of excessively high

Three internal performance indicators (System, User and Idle) are displayed as percentage numbers

and also graphed for the last minute. Issues can potentially arise if the System indicator becomes high (>80%).

The

CPU usage

averaged over the last 10 seconds click the last 60 seconds click the

seconds

respectively. To clear peak values click the Clear peaks button.

button will display the historical maximum value for an averaging period of 10 s and 60 s

view displays CPU usage of the 10G Software Probe. To view the CPU usage

Last 60 seconds

Current

button. Clicking the

button. To view the usage averaged over the

Peak any 10 secsorPeak any 60

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5.1.3 Main — Thumb overview

The

Thumb overview

mode is used. Placeholder images will be displayed if thumbnailing has not been enabled in the Setup — Params view, indicating the type of stream being received.

If the

Small

only, allowing more thumbnails to be displayed in a view. To display the stream address and name

(as deﬁned in the

button.

The following information is displayed for each stream:

button is clicked the

Service name:

Service id:

view displays a mosaic of all decoded thumbnails. By default the

Thumb overview

Multicasts — Streams

Shows the name deﬁned for the TV service in the SI service descriptor. If no SI is present in the stream the service id will be shown.

For TS services, the ID of the selected service within a transport stream.

Type: For non-TS services, the service type is displayed.

and

Thumb overview

view will display service names and thumbs

OTT — Channels

views) click the

Normal

Stream info

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Freeze-frame status:

If the probe has been licensed with the Content Extraction and Alarming option, status bulbs are displayed indicating the current freeze-frame and color-freeze status for the streams.

White:

Unknown (typically due to the VB330-SW being unable to

decode video)

Grey: freeze-frame detection is disabled. Green: freeze-frame detection is enabled, no freeze-frame is detected.

Yellow:

freeze-frame detection is enabled. 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 error timeout value has been exceeded, thus resulting in an alarm.

The

Thumbs Details

For more information about the details displayed in the

pop-up view is accessed by clicking a thumb in the

Thumbs Details

Thumb overview

view.

pop-up see chapter 5.4 for multicast streams, and chapter 5.3.2 for OTT channels. Note that thumbnails are only decoded automatically if the

Extract thumbnails

option has been enabled in the associated OTT or multicast setup, or if content check alarming (Content Extraction and Alarming option) has been enabled in the ETR threshold template. To decode the thumbnail manually, open the

Thumbs Details

view.

The same pop-up details are displayed as when opened from the ETR 290 — Services view.

Clicking the Close button will close the view.

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5.1.4 Main — Eii graphing

Eii is short for External Integration Interface and constitutes a set of XML ﬁles accessible through the VB330-SW web server interface for machine access to measurement data.

Portions of the Eii interface are available in this view for simple trend graphing over arbitrary long time by the web browser.

The screenshot shows the bandwidth of two IP streams being graphed by sampling the Eii interface

every 2 seconds. The graph is stored 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.

Eii stream parameter

Using the Select the streams in the in the Parameter to plot dropdown.

rtp_drops: Number of dropped IP frames due to network errors

Eii stream parameter

Stream N to plot

bitrate: Bitrate (bits per second)

plot, it is possible to plot parameters from up to ﬁve IP streams.

(where N is 1 through to 5) drop-downs and the parameter

Eii stream parameters

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iat_avg: Average Inter-Arrival Time

cc_errs: The number of discontinuities detected

Refresh (seconds)

selects how often samples are read and plotted on the graph. Click

store the parameters and then click the Plot chart link to open the chart.

Eii protocol parameter

Using the

Eii protocol parameter

plot, it is possible to plot up to ﬁve network interface parameters.

Select the parameters in the Parameter N to plot (where N is 1 through to 5) drop-downs.

Eii protocol parameters

vlanTaggedPerc: Percentage of frames being VLAN tagged

ipFragPerc: Percentage of frames being IP fragmented

eth0txBitr: Total TX bitrate including units on ﬁrst data interface

eth0rxBitr: Total RX bitrate including units on ﬁrst data interface

udpUnicastBitr: Bitrate of the unicast trafﬁc

udpMulticastBitr: Bitrate of the multicast trafﬁc

udpUnicastStreams: Number of UDP unicast streams present

udpMulticastStreams: Number of UDP multicast streams present

copPayloadBitr: Bitrate of FEC protected payload

Apply

copFec1Bitr: Bitrate of the FEC columns

copFec2Bitr: Bitrate of the FEC rows

copCorrected: IP packets correctable by the FEC

copUncorrected: IP packets not correctable by the FEC

copErrors: FEC packets with errors

Refresh (seconds)

selects how often samples are read and plotted on the graph. Click

store the parameters and then click the Plot chart link to open the chart.

Eii OTT parameter

Using the monitored OTT channel. Select the channel in the

Eii OTT parameter

plot, it is possible to plot analysis parameters from any of the

Service to plot

drop-down and the parameter in

the Parameter to plot dropdown.

Eii OTT parameters

proﬁleBps,actualBps: Plots both the proﬁleBps and actualBps parameters

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proﬁleBps: Bitrate of this proﬁle as listed in meta-data (bits per second)

actualBps:

Bitrate of this proﬁle calculated from downloaded chunk (bits per second)

chunkDur: Last chunk length (seconds)

ﬁrstByte: Time to ﬁrst byte (milliseconds)

downloadDur: Time to download chunk (seconds)

chunkSize: Size of downloaded chunk (bytes)

Refresh (seconds)

selects how often samples are read and plotted on the graph. Click

store the parameters and then click the Plot chart link to open the chart.

Please refer to the separate Eii documentation for further details.

Apply

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5.2 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 5.1: Alarm handling in the 10G Software Probe.

Figure 5.1 shows an overview of the alarm handling in the 10G Software Probe. It is useful to obtain an understanding of the alarm processing of the 10G Software Probe – in particular how threshold settings and alarm setup will affect alarm handling.

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The 10G Software Probe continuously compares measurement data with user deﬁned thresholds in

order to generate alarms. These alarms are further checked against the settings deﬁned in the

— Alarm setup

be sent as SNMP traps to support third party management systems. Refer to Appendix: VB330-SW

Versus VBC Alarms for a description of alarm handling in the VideoBRIDGE Controller.

The 10G Software Probe distinguishes between events and alarms. The ETR software module will always generate alarms and the Systems software module will always 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 Ethernet events as alarms’ box in the Setup — Params view. The OTT module generates alarms only.

view, and the resulting alarms are presented in the alarm lists. These alarms will also

5.2.1 Alarms — All Alarms

Alarms

The

Alarms

combined list. The individual alarm lists can hold the number alarms indicated below independently of each other, meaning that one may become full without affecting the other lists.

Full Service Monitoring (FSM) 100 alarms

Over The Top Television (OTT) 100 alarms

ETSI TR 101 290 Analysis (ETR) 400 alarms

Auto-refresh list

alarms are always located at the top of the list.

view gives the user the possibility of viewing alarms according to type or as one

Alarm list capacity

Ethernet alarms (ETH) 4000 alarms

System alarms (SYS) 100 alarms

is selected, the alarm list will be continuously updated with new alarms. Active

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Clicking the events list. By clicking one of the blue information icons leftmost in the ofﬂine list, a detailed alarm description can be viewed. The search ﬁeld in the upper right corner of the view allows the user to type a text string and the alarm list is updated to display only streams and alarms matching the speciﬁed text. To update the ofﬂine alarm list click the the ofﬂine mode.

View list ofﬂine

button gives the user the opportunity to view the complete alarms and

Auto-refresh list

button and then go back to

The alarm lists can be deleted by clicking the

this action will permanently clear the alarm lists — they cannot be restored.

The

Export

open in a new window.

button enables export of the corresponding alarm list as an XML ﬁle. This ﬁle will

Flush alarms

button. However it should be noted that

5.2.2 Alarms — Alarm setup

The

Alarm setup

an alarm should be enabled or ignored, and associates an error severity level with each alarm, and associates an error severity level with each alarm. When changes have been made to alarm settings click the Apply changes button for changes to take effect.

represents the ﬁnal ﬁltering stage for VB330-SW alarms. The user selects whether

Figure 5.1 gives an overview of the total alarm handling of a 10G Software Probe. The settings in the Alarm setup view are represented by the Alarm Settings box in this ﬁgure.

Note that the probe alarm handling will also depend on the threshold template settings deﬁned by the user in the ETR 290 — Service thresh., and OTT — Thresholds views.

Also note that only enabled alarms are shown in the alarm lists and forwarded as SNMP traps.

Enabling or disabling 10G Software Probe alarms does however not affect the alarms presented by the VBC. Refer to Appendix: VB330-SW Versus VBC Alarms for a description of the VB330-SW

versus VBC alarm handling.

The following alarm severity levels may be selected:

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OK: If enabled, the alarm will be present in the alarm list, color green

Warning: If enabled, the alarm will be present in the alarm list, color yellow

Error: If enabled, the alarm will be present in the alarm list, color orange

Major: If enabled, the alarm will be present in the alarm list, color red

Fatal: If enabled, the alarm will be present in the alarm list, color black

The following alarms and events are conﬁgured:

ETH (Ethernet) alarms

No signal:

FEC packet drop:

RTP packet drop:

RTP duplicates:

RTP out of order:

CC skips:

There has been no UDP packet for the predeﬁned period of time (default 1sec)

One or more RTP packets could not be corrected by the FEC

Number of consecutive dropped RTP packets exceeds the errorthresholds – only available if RTP headers are present

Number of RTP packets with identical RTP counters – only available if RTP headers are present

There are RTP packets received out of order – only available if RTP headers are present

Number of transport stream discontinuities due to packet loss. Note that the CC skips number does not necessarily equal the number of lost packets, as several consecutive packets lost will be counted as one CC skip.

Default: Enabled, severity Major

Default: Enabled, severity Error

Default: Disabled, severity Warning

IAT >= err-thresh:

IAT >= warn-thresh:

MLR >= err-thresh:

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The Inter-packet Arrival Time exceeds the error threshold

The Inter-packet Arrival Time exceeds the warning threshold

The Media Loss Rate exceeds the error-threshold

Default: Disabled, severity Error

Default: Disabled, severity Warning

Default: Enabled, severity Error

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MLR >= warn-thresh:

The Media Loss Rate exceeds the warning-threshold

Default: Disabled, severity Warning

TTL changed:

TOS changed:

Multiple mcast sources:

Mcast source changed:

Bitrate overﬂow:

Bitrate underﬂow:

The Time-To-Live ﬁeld is changing

The Type-Of-Service ﬁeld is changing

There are multiple multicast sources

The multicast source changed to one of the valid multicast sources speciﬁed by the operator

The net stream bitrate exceeds the maximum bitrate Ethernet threshold value speciﬁed by the operator

The net stream bitrate goes below the minimum bitrate Ethernet threshold value speciﬁed by the operator

Default: Enabled, severity Error

Full service monitoring:

TS Sync: No TS Sync (no signal) Default: Enabled,

Sync byte:

PAT:

Continuity: Continuity counter error Default: Enabled,

PMT: Program Map Table error Default: Enabled,

FSM alarms

No reply was obtained within timeout period for the conﬁgured FSM service

ETR (ETR 290) alarms

Sync byte error, sync byte not 0x47

Program Association Table error

Default: Enabled, severity Major

severity Major

Default: Enabled, severity Major

severity Major

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PID: PID is missing Default: Enabled,

severity Major

Transport:

Transport stream error indicator is set

Default: Enabled, severity Major

CRC: Table checksum error Default: Enabled,

severity Major

PCR: Program Clock Reference error Default: Enabled,

severity Major

PCR Accuracy:

Program Clock Reference accuracy error (PCR jitter)

Default: Enabled, severity Major

PTS: Presentation Time Stamp error Default: Enabled,

severity Major

CAT: Conditional Access Table error Default: Enabled,

severity Major

NIT:

Network Information Table error

Default: Enabled, severity Major

SI Rep Rate:

Wrong repetition rate for SI ta-

bles

Default: Enabled, severity Major

Unref PID: PID is unreferenced Default: Enabled,

severity Major

SDT: Service Description 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 error Default: Enabled,

severity Major

MGT:

VCT:

Master Guide Table error (ATSC mode)

Virtual Channel Table error (ATSC mode)

Default: Enabled, severity Major

PIM/PNM: PIM/PNM error (ATSC mode) Default: Enabled,

severity Major

RRT:

ATSC EIT:

Region Rating Table error (ATSC mode)

ATSC EIT Table error (ATSC mode)

Default: Enabled, severity Major

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STT:

System Time Table error (ATSC mode)

Default: Enabled, severity Major

ETT:

Extended Text Table error (ATSC mode)

Default: Enabled, severity Major

CA System: CA System error Default: Enabled,

severity Major

PID min. bitr.

PID max. bitr.

PID minimum bitrate below threshold

PID maximum bitrate exceeds threshold

Default: Enabled, severity Major

PID checks: PID check error Default: Enabled,

severity Major

Service min. bitr.

Service max. bitr.

Service minimum bitrate below threshold

Service maximum bitrate exceeds threshold

Default: Enabled, severity Major

Service checks: Service check error Default: Enabled,

severity Major

MIP:

Megaframe Insertion Packet error

Default: Enabled, severity Major

Content:

Reference:

Gold TS:

Interface overﬂow:

[Critical system errors]:

Content check error (checking of audio and video)

Reference check error (comparing the stream with a Gold TS)

Error found while comparing the stream with the stored Gold TS snapshot)

Input interface overﬂow error. Means that the probe is overloaded and can not properly analyze the signals.

SYS (System) events

Critical system errors preventing the 10G Software Probe from operating correctly

Default: Enabled, severity Major

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Fatal’

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[System errors]:

Enable this to view all system errors

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Major’

[System info]:

The number of proﬁles changed:

Proﬁle stream type changed:

Minimum proﬁles

Download bitrate low:

Download bitrate too low:

Manifest size:

Enable this to view system information messages

OTT Alarms

The number of proﬁles ﬂagged in the manifest ﬁle changed

The stream type of the proﬁle changed in the manifest

The channel has less proﬁles than speciﬁed in the threshold

The download duration time exceeds the OTT bitrate threshold. The bitrate threshold is part of the OTT threshold template deﬁned in the

OTT — Thresholds

view. A threshold template is assigned to a stream in the

OTT —

Channels view.

The download duration time exceeds the OTT chunk duration time

The manifest ﬁle size exceeds the OTT manifest size threshold

Default: Enabled, severity ‘OK’

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Warning’

Default: Enabled, severity Warning

Default: Disabled, severity Warning

Default: Enabled, severity Error

Default: Enabled, severity Warning

Actual bitrate:

The actual measured bitrate does not match the proﬁle bitrate spec-

Default: Enabled, severity Warning

iﬁed in the manifest ﬁle

Download timeout:

The download time exceeds twice the chunk duration time

Default: Enabled, severity Major

Address resolve error: Unable to resolve address name Default: Enabled,

severity ‘Error’

Connection failed: Connection failed Default: Enabled,

severity ‘Error’

Send error: Could not send data to host Default: Enabled,

severity ‘Error’

Receive error:

Could not receive data from host

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Major’

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Empty reply:

Response did not contain any data in body

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Major’

HTTP error: Invalid HTTP response Default: Enabled,

severity ‘Major’

HTTP redirect error: HTTP 3xx redirection error Default: Enabled,

severity ‘Major’

HTTP client error: HTTP 4xx client error Default: Enabled,

severity ‘Major’

HTTP server error: HTTP 5xx server error Default: Enabled,

severity ‘Major’

Static manifest:

Manifest parse error:

Unknown manifest:

Manifest ﬁle unchanged for longer than conﬁgured threshold

Failed to parse manifest ﬁle. Invalid format

Cannot recognize manifest XML format

Default: Enabled, severity Major

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Major’

Default: Enabled, severity ‘Fatal’

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5.3 OTT (Option)

5.3.1 OTT — Active testing

The OTT option enables monitoring of up to 500 OTT channels. Up to 50 OTT engines (depends on

license) can operate in parallel, and each engine licensed allows any channels to be analyzed. Each engine analyses channels in series and can be conﬁgured with any number of channels up to the maximum allowed by the license.

The 10G Software Probe will parse a channel’s manifest ﬁle, and for a live channel one of the latest

chunks in each OTT proﬁle’s chunk sequence will be analyzed. The engine then 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 parsing or chunk analysis reveals an error, an alarm will be raised. Note that some alarms depend on user deﬁned threshold values. Alarms must also be enabled in the

Alarm setup view.

Thumbnail decoding is available for well as some types of encrypted HLS channels.

The following OTT information is displayed in the Active testing view:

Status bulb:

A bulb indicates the current status of the channel, i.e. the most severe

proﬁle status.

non-encrypted

OTT channels

HLS, HDS, DASH and RTMP channels, as

Alarm —

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Thumb:

Channel:

Progress:

If the selected channel is of type HLS, HDS, DASH or RTMP a thumbnail of the content will be decoded and updated. Thumbnail decoding is a process asynchronous of the channel analysis and therefor should not be expected to be updated at the same time. The main purpose of the thumbnails is to provide brief information about the channel contents.

The channel name deﬁned by the user and linked to a URL in the

OTT

— Channels view.

Channels will be analyzed sequentially, and the progress bar shows

which channel is currently being monitored and how analysis is pro-

gressing.

Alarm history:

Current proﬁle status:

Proﬁles: The number of proﬁles associated with a channel.

Encryption:

Proﬁle info:

A bar graph showing alarm severity history. It can show the last 120

minutes, 24 hours or four days. To switch between the graphs, press the

“24h”, “2h” or “4d” button on the left under the channel list. Each bar

color represents the alarm severity level as conﬁgured under

Alarms

— Alarm setup.

The channel health bar displays the current status for individual channel

proﬁles. Proﬁles are separated by vertical black lines. Colors indicate proﬁle alarm status:

• Green: OK

• Yellow: Warning

• Orange: Error

• Red: Major

• Black: Fatal

Scrambling information is resolved from the proﬁle manifest. If the proﬁle is scrambled the encryption ﬁeld will read Yes. If the proﬁle is transmitted in clear the encryption ﬁeld will read No.

Channel and proﬁle information is resolved from the manifest ﬁles. At channel level the OTT format is displayed (Smoothstream, HLS, Adobe HDS, MPEG DASH or SHOUTcast). At proﬁle level the proﬁle

bitrate is displayed.

Engine:

Indicates which OTT engine is assigned to what channel. The 10G

Software Probe can be licensed with anywhere from 1 up to 50 OTT

engines. Each engine is capable of handling any number of channels.

Lat.eng.:

Indicates which OTT latency engine has been automatically assigned

to this channel. This column is only displayed if latency engines have

been conﬁgured in the

OTT — Settings

view, and will only contain numbers for channels conﬁgured to perform latency measurements. See chapter 5.3.3 for more details.

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5.3.2 OTT — Details

Click the blue information button on a channel to open the details window. This window provides detailed information about the status and alarms on all the proﬁles for the selected channel. The same pop-up can be opened from the information.

5.3.2.1 OTT — Details — Proﬁles

Main — Thumb Overview

view, see chapter 5.1.3 for more

The Proﬁles view in this pop-up consists of two tables detailed below:

The following information relevant for the overall OTT channel is shown in the ﬁrst part of the

Details — Proﬁles pop-up window:

Channel

Channel:

Progress:

The channel name deﬁned by the user and linked to a URL in the

Channels

severe proﬁle status.

Channels will be analyzed sequentially, and the progress bar shows which channel is currently being monitored and how analysis is progressing.

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Proﬁles: The number of proﬁles associated with a channel.

Proﬁle status:

The channel health bar displays the current status for individual channel proﬁles. Proﬁles are separated by vertical black lines. Colors indicate proﬁle alarm status:

• Green: OK

• Yellow: Warning

• Orange: Error

• Red: Major

• Black: Fatal

Stream type:

Channel and proﬁle information is resolved from the manifest ﬁles. At channel level the OTT format is displayed (Smoothstream, HLS, Adobe HDS, MPEG DASH or SHOUTcast).

In the same view below the table for the overall channel a more detailed view per shown with the following information in it:

Proﬁles

Proﬁle: The name of the OTT proﬁle as ﬂagged in the manifest ﬁles.

Type: Live

for live content or

VoD

for stored content. The distinction between the two is done based on whether the proﬁle sequence numbers update or not.

Proﬁle health: *

A timeline graph display of a combined bitrate and alarm representation for individual proﬁles. 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 hour graph.

channel proﬁle

Proﬁle bps: * The proﬁle nominal bandwidth as ﬂagged in the manifest ﬁles.

Actual bps: *

The actual proﬁle bitrate, i.e. the chunk size (megabits) divided by the chunk length (seconds). The actual proﬁle bitrate should match the manifest bitrate speciﬁcation within limits deﬁned by the user in the OTT thresholds template associated with a channel. Otherwise an alarm will be raised.

Download bps: *

The download bitrate, i.e. the chunk size (megabits) divided by the download time (seconds).

Chunk length: * The proﬁle chunk length (seconds) speciﬁed in the manifest ﬁle.

Download time: * The actual proﬁle chunk download time (seconds).

First byte: * The time (in seconds) before the ﬁrst payload data byte was received.

Download size: * The actual proﬁle chunk size (bytes).

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Encrypt.: YesorNo

depending on whether the content for that proﬁle is encrypted

or not.

HTTP header: * The current HTTP header of the last chunk downloaded for that proﬁle.

Note:

Items marked with * are not available if the channel has been conﬁgured to only perform

latency measurements (see chapter 5.3.3 for more details).

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5.3.2.2 OTT — Details — Manifest

The

Manifest

view shows health information on the overall manifest ﬁle for the channel as well as

for the manifest ﬁles for the individual proﬁles.

Channel

Channel:

The channel name deﬁned by the user and linked to a URL in the

Channels

view. A bulb indicates the current status of the channel, i.e. 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 of proﬁles associated with a channel.

Proﬁle status:

The channel health bar displays the current status for individual channel proﬁles. Proﬁles are separated by vertical black lines. Colors indicate proﬁle alarm status:

• Green: OK

• Yellow: Warning

• Orange: Error

• Red: Major

• Black: Fatal

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Proﬁle info:

The type of stream is shown here. Apple

HLS

, Microsoft

Smoothstream

Adobe HDS, MPEG DASH or SHOUTcast.

Manifest size: The size in bytes of the main/top manifest ﬁle for the overall channel.

Manifest ﬁle:

Clickable URL for displaying the manifest ﬁle as text for the overall channel.

Manifest URL: A clickable link to the current main/top manifest ﬁle for the overall channel.

HTTP header:

The current HTTP header of the main/top manifest ﬁle for the overall channel.

Just below the channel manifest information in the same window is the detailed manifest information

per proﬁle. This view contains the following information:

Proﬁles

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

for live content or

VoD

for stored content. The distinction between the

two is done based on the contents of the manifest ﬁle.

Seq.age:

The proﬁle sequence shows how long it has been since the manifest was updated in whole seconds.

Manifest size: The size in bytes of the manifest ﬁle for a particular proﬁle.

Manifest ﬁle:

Clickable URL for displaying the manifest ﬁle as text for this particular proﬁle.

Manifest URL: Clickable URL to the proﬁle manifest ﬁle.

HTTP header: URL to HTTP header in text form for a particular proﬁle manifest ﬁle.

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5.3.2.3 OTT — Details — Alarms

The

Details — Alarms

view gives an at-a-glance overview of any active OTT alarms for the selected

channel. An 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 ones as explained for the

Alarms — Alarm setup

view, see chapter 5.2.2

for more information.

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5.3.2.4 OTT — Details — Thumbnails

The Thumbnails tab will provide information about the current thumbnails in the channel.

The quality of the content in the selected proﬁle can be viewed in the thumbnail section, and the

user may alter the selected proﬁle in the drop down list.

The section on the right hand side provides speciﬁc decoder and chunk information.

By pressing the be switched to the default selection;

Apply

button without selecting a proﬁle from the drop-down list the thumbnail will

Auto select

. Auto select will select the proﬁle with the highest

bitrate and video data.

Decoder information

Size: The video picture size of the selected proﬁle

Aspect ratio: The video aspect ratio of the selected proﬁle

Pixel aspect ratio: The video pixel aspect ratio of the selected proﬁle

Codec: The video encoding format of the selected proﬁle

Quality: The video sampling format of the selected proﬁle

Frame rate: The video frame rate of the selected proﬁle (Hz)

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Chunk Information

Engine ID: The OTT engine monitoring the selected channel.

Channel ID:

The ID of selected channel corresponding to the list of channels deﬁned

by the user.

Proﬁle ID: The ID of the selected proﬁle.

Bitrate: Bitrate rate of the a chunk.

Streamtype: The type of the stream detected; live or video on demand.

Sequence Number: The sequence number of a chunk.

5.3.2.5 OTT — Details — Alignment

The Alignment tab gives the user a view of all the proﬁles for a selected channel with thumbnails

and corresponding data.

Proﬁle Alignment Information

Proﬁle:

This is a generated ID that identiﬁes the OTT proﬁle. The ﬁrst proﬁle listed is always the one with the highest signaled bitrate.

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Chunk/Sequence Number:

Bitrate: The signaled bitrate for this proﬁle (bits/s).

Size & FPS: Indicates the original video size (pixels) and the frame-rate (Hz).

Audio: Indicates the audio channel layout.

The chunk or sequence number for the current thumbnail. This is either signaled in the stream, or generated by the VB330-SW. If the sequence numbers 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.

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5.3.3 OTT — Latency

The OTT Channel Latency Distribution feature makes it possible to measure the delay from when a

chunk is available through different caches, compared to its origin.

Before using this feature, you must set aside a number of OTT engines to exclusively measure the timings of one channel on one server. This is done in the

would need to use two Latency Engines per channel: one for the origin and one for the cache.

OTT — Settings

view. In general, you

After selecting the number of Latency Engines, open the

from multiple sources (URLs), using the same base name, but different and TV1 timings from this server, or added channel will use one dedicated Latency Engine, if you try setting is no free Latency Engine available, it will default back to Normal.

Once the conﬁguration is ﬁnished, you are ready to use this feature. Select the channel to produce a latency graph for using the that is to be used as the reference in the delta difference.

The graph will start off showing the difference in availability time of each chunk for the last minute

and will build up history until displaying the last hour. Due to the nature of timing in different engines, these measurements are accurate down to±0.5 seconds. To minimize these inaccuracies, a moving average is provided, smoothing the spikes. The sliding window can be manually controlled by moving the by checking the Show min/max checkbox.

@CDN

Avg window

. Then set the

Both

Channel

slider. It is also possible to display the minimum and maximum values

Measurement modetoLatency

if you also want the traditional Active Testing measurements. Each

drop-down. Then select which of the classes of the channel

Reference

OTT — Channels

if you are only interested in the

drop-down. This is used to calculate the time

view and add the channel

classes

LatencyorBoth

, e.g. TV1

@Origin

and there

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5.3.4 OTT — Channels

The OTT Channel Conﬁguration list shows OTT channels conﬁgured by the user.

To add a channel to the list click the

pop-up view, allowing the user to deﬁne channel parameters. A channel entry can be selected by clicking the channel; the list entry will be highlighted. Several list entries can be selected by using regular Ctrl + click functionality. Clicking the

channel Delete selected

the selected channels across the licensed OTT engines (the VB330-SW can be licensed with up to 50 OTT engines). Clicking the highlighted channel. Batch editing is supported; this is convenient if a new threshold template should be assigned to a number of channels or if monitoring of several channels should be enabled or disabled. Select the channels and click the channels will be indicated in the Edit selected pop-up view by an asterisk wildcard symbol.

The search ﬁeld in the upper right corner of the view allows the user to type a text string, and the

OTT channel list is updated to display only channels matching the speciﬁed text.

pop-up view with all channel parameters duplicated, except the channel name. Clicking

will delete the highlighted list entry. Clicking

Edit selected

Add new channel

Duplicate selected

will open the

Edit selected

button. This will open the

button will open the

Distribute selected

Edit channel

button. Parameters differing between

pop-up view associated with

Edit channel

will distribute

Edit

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General

Enabled: Check the ‘Enabled’ check box to start monitoring the OTT service.

Select engine:

A number between 1 and 50, depending on license activated, indicating which OTT engine the channel uses.

Threshold:

The OTT threshold that should be assigned to the OTT channel. OTT thresholds that have been deﬁned in the available for selection from the drop-down menu.

VBC thresholds:

The alarm threshold template used to conﬁgure when alarms are generated towards the VBC server.

Measurement mode

Specify if you want Distribution

Latency

this channel. Each channel you set to either Engine. If you do not have any spare, it will be set back to

OTT — Latency for more info.

Name:

A name should be assigned to each OTT channel. The name will be used throughout the VB330-SW’s user interface when referring to this channel.

Manifest URL: The URL of the OTT channel.

Player URL:

In this ﬁeld you can enter the URL to a web page which will open the OTT channel in your browser. If entered, a ‘play’ button will be displayed in the OTT overview tab, which will open the selected URL in a new browser tab.

Normal

active testing measurements, OTT Channel

measurements, or

LatencyorBoth

OTT — Thresholds

Both

kinds of measurements for

uses up one Latency

Normal

view are

. See

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Smooth Streaming

target chunk:

For Smooth Streaming, this speciﬁes which chunk, counted from the bottom of the list, the VB330-SW should download when doing active testing on a live channel. For other formats, this option is ignored.

VCAS hostname:

Availability mode:

RTMP: Check this check box if the channel is an RTMP channel.

RTMP live: Check this check box if the RTMP channel is a live service.

Thumbnail:

Alignment:

If this channel is encrypted using a Verimatrix VCAS 3.7 server, entering the IP address or hostname of the VCAS server’s encoder interface will allow descrambling of the encrypted chunks. See

OTT descrambling

with Verimatrix for more info.

If this option is enabled, the engine will only check for chunk presence but not download the entire ﬁle. This also disables thumbnail generation.

If the thumbnail option is enabled thumbnails will be available for the selected channels in the Active testing and Thumbnails sections.

If the alignment option is enabled the alignment section will be available.

Enable adv. settings:

Method:

Content-Type:

Additional headers:

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Adv. manifest

Check this box to enable the advanced manifest settings. If unchecked, all settings on this page are ignored.

Determines which HTTP method to use when requesting the top-level manifest ﬁle. Supported methods are GET and POST.

When requesting the manifest using the HTTP

POST

, use this Content-

Type for the submitted request body.

To provide additional custom request headers or overwrite the default headers when requesting the top-level manifest ﬁle, create a text ﬁle containing the headers and upload them here.

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Body:

The advanced manifest options can be used in instances where the master manifest ﬁle is not directly

available to download. If your channel needs several steps of authentication or other web service calls before supplying clients with an URL to the master manifest, you can make an “in-between”

web service which the VB330-SW sends all required info to do the authentication and/or channel

lookups through this interface, and which returns an JSON ﬁle with an “url” parameter containing the URL to the master manifest ﬁle.

When requesting the manifest using the HTTP submit here.

POST

, upload the ﬁle to

5.3.5 OTT — Settings

The Settings tab makes it possible to change global and per-engine OTT monitoring parameters.

Press Apply to conﬁrm changes made.

Settings

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Reset connection after:

Conﬁgures the VB330-SW 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 resetting before that limit a new session is created and the problem is avoided.

Latency engines:

Normal engines:

Round time (s):

Routing interface:

Select the number of engines to dedicate to OTT latency monitoring. These engines will not be available for regular OTT monitoring, and the value must be less than the total number of licensed OTT engines on the probe. See OTT — Latency for more info. Latency engines are assigned to channels automatically, and are listed in the OTT — Active Testing view.

The number of normal OTT engines (i.e., not dedicated to OTT latency monitoring) is automatically calculated and displayed here.

Sets the minimum round time for each OTT engine, in seconds (default:

15 seconds). If an engine ﬁnishes processing all its channels in less

time than this, it waits until this amount of seconds has passed since it started the round before starting to process through its channels again. Note: The round time may not be set to a value less than 2 seconds.

Selects the interface on which to connect to the OTT server. This defaults to the interface selected in the can be overridden for each engine. The routing applies to all channels monitored by this engine. Latency engines are assigned to channels automatically, and are listed in the OTT — Active Testing view.

Setup — Routing

view, but

5.3.6 OTT — Thresholds

The OTT Threshold presets list shows OTT threshold templates conﬁgured by the user.

To add a threshold template to the list click the

threshold

can be selected by clicking the threshold template; the list entry will be highlighted. Several list

pop-up view, allowing the user to deﬁne threshold parameters. A threshold template entry

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Add new threshold

button. This will open the

Edit

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entries can be selected by using regular Ctrl + click functionality. Clicking the Duplicate selected button will open the except the threshold template name. Clicking Clicking

Edit selected

threshold template. Batch editing is supported. Select the threshold templates and click the

selected

button. Parameters differing between templates will be indicated in the

Edit threshold

will open the

pop-up view with all threshold template parameters duplicated,

Delete selected

Edit threshold

pop-up view associated with the highlighted

will delete the highlighted list entry.

Edit

Edit selected

pop-up view by an asterisk wildcard symbol.

The search ﬁeld in the upper right corner of the view allows the user to type a text string, and the

threshold list is updated to display only thresholds matching the speciﬁed text.

To disable a threshold alarm, set the threshold value to –1. This does

size.

Threshold preset

Name: The threshold template name deﬁned by the user.

Refs: The number of channels associated with the threshold template

Download speed error:

The maximum allowed difference between proﬁle bitrate and download bitrate (%). If the difference exceeds the threshold value a bitrate error alarm will be raised.

Download speed warn:

The maximum allowed difference between proﬁle bitrate and download bitrate (%). If the difference exceeds the threshold value a bitrate error warning will be raised.

Actual bitrate min:

The minimum allowed bitrate when measured actual bitrate is compared to proﬁle bitrate (%). If the actual bitrate goes below the threshold an actual bitrate alarm will be raised.

Actual bitrate max:

The maximum allowed bitrate when measured actual bitrate is compared to proﬁle bitrate (%). If the actual bitrate exceeds the threshold an actual bitrate alarm will be raised.

Sequence age:

The maximum time a manifest can remain unchanged before a manifest age alarm is raised.

not

apply for Manifest XML

Manifest XML size:

The maximum detected size of the manifest before a manifest size alarm is raised.

Min. proﬁles:

Minimum number of proﬁles in the selected channel before an alarm is raised.

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5.4 Multicasts

5.4.1 Multicasts — Parameters

The Multicasts — Parameters view displays detailed information about each stream.

The user selects which group of measurements should be displayed. Selections are IP parameters, TS

parameters, Ethernet parameters, RTP and FEC parameters, User-deﬁned parameters and Statistical parameters. If User-deﬁned parameters is selected, the

by the user in the Multicasts — Parameters — Fields view.

Multicasts

view displays parameters selected

For each page the Accumulated row at the bottom of the multicast list displays accumulated values for all streams associated with the page. The accumulated Min bitrate and Max bitrate is the minimum and maximum value of the Accumulated current bitrate.

When the The associated thumbnails are shown in the leftmost column of the list of measurements. Click one

of the small thumbnails to view a larger thumbnail that is updated more frequently. Note that it is possible to disable probe thumbnail extraction in the Setup — Params view.

When

displayed. A search ﬁeld allows the user to type a text string and the multicast list is updated to display only multicasts matching the speciﬁed text. Note that monitoring parameters and thumbs

will not be updated in All streams (ofﬂine) mode.

Current page

All streams (ofﬂine)

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button is clicked it is possible to select the page from a drop-down menu.

is clicked a complete list of measurements for all joined streams is

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Peak and aggregate measurements are cleared when the

pages

button is clicked. Clicking this button also restarts the ETR monitoring for the streams have

this enabled.

Clear countersorClear counters all

Clicking the

Export

button will allow export of the measurement data as an XML ﬁle that is opened

in a new window.

Click the them from the list. The

Trim ch-list

button to unjoin streams with current status ‘No signal’, thereby removing

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 1m).

Clicking a stream brings up the Detailed monitoring pop-up described later in this section.

All streams (ofﬂine)

mode a search ﬁeld allows the user to type a text string and the multicast

list is updated to display only multicasts matching the speciﬁed text.

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Joined multicasts

: Click the information icon to access the Detailed Monitoring pop-up view.

Thumb: A thumbnail is displayed for each stream. Click the small thumbnail to view a

larger image that is updated more frequently.

Name: The stream name speciﬁed by the user in the Edit Multicast view

Signal: Time since last signal loss

Page: The page associated with the multicast

Mapping:

For MPEG-2 Transport streams, the number of MPEG-2 packets mapped into each RTP or UDP packet is displayed here. For SMPTE 2022-6 SDI over IP streams, “SDI/RTP” is displayed, and for other unsupported RTP streams, “RTP data” is displayed.

Net bitrate:

Instantaneous MPEG-2 Transport Stream bitrate excluding null packets (PID

8191). The instantaneous bitrate is measured over a time period of 1000 ms.

CC errs:

The number of times a discontinuity has been detected for all the MPEG2 Transport Stream 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 continuity counter mismatch detected for an IP-frame will increase CC errs by one. CC errors are serious as they will in practice usually result in visual video artifacts (‘blocking’) if occurring on the video PIDs. CC errors can be due to an erroneous input signal to the streaming head-end (e.g. from satellite rain fading or changes in the uplink). Alternatively, CC errors can arise from IP packets being dropped in the network.

PIDs: Number of PIDs in the MPEG2-TS

Syncb errs: Number of transport stream packets with wrong syncbyte (0x47)

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Curr bitrate:

Instantaneous MPEG-2 Transport Stream bitrate including null packets (PID

8191). The instantaneous bitrate is measured over a time period of 1000 ms. For non-TS trafﬁc the bitrate is calculated from the size of the UDP payloads.

Min bitrate: The minimum current bitrate measurement

Max bitrate: The maximum current bitrate measurement

IP packets: The number of IP packets received

Dst address: Multicast/unicast destination address : port

TOS: Type-Of-Service (also called Differentiated Services Field)

TTL: Time-To-Live

VLAN ID: Native VLAN ID of this stream

Src address: Multicast/unicast source address : port

Joined src: The source address of the originally joined multicast.

IAT avg:

Average Inter-Arrival Time. The average time between consecutive IP frames (in milliseconds). Recalculated each second.

IAT min:

The Minimum Inter-Arrival Time is the minimum registered time between two consecutive IP frames carrying video. Units are in milliseconds.

IAT max:

The Maximum Inter-Arrival Time is the maximum registered time between two consecutive IP frames carrying video. Units are in milliseconds. The Max-IAT is a measure of the maximum amount of network-induced packet jitter present. IP packet jitter affects video quality and should be minimized.

Src MAC: Source MAC address Dst MAC: Destination MAC address

RTP drops:

Accumulated number of dropped IP-frames due to network errors. Only available for multicasts that carry RTP information. When running video inside an RTP wrapper it is possible 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 RTP drops of

+3: . . . , 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, . . .

RTP dups:

Accumulated number of duplicate IP-frames. Only available for multicasts that carry RTP information. Duplicate IP-frames in the network can occur under normal circumstances and does not necessarily indicate network problems. The following sequence will generate an RTP dups of +2: . . . , 10, 11, 12, 12, 12, 13, 14, . . .

RTP ooo:

Accumulated number of times a packet has been found to be out of order. Only available for multicasts that carry RTP information. An out-of-order situation is deﬁned to have occurred when the current sequence number is lower than the previous one. The following sequence will generate an RTP ooo of +2 (since there are two occurrences): . .. , 10, 11, 15, 12, 16, 17, 13, 14, 18, 19, . . .

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RTP lag:

The maximum number of packet positions an out-of-order packet has been moved relative to its correct position. So for example 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,4,9,10 will result in an RTP lag of 4. The RTP lag is a good measure of how big a packet re-ordering buffer is needed in the receiving equipment to re-order packets.

Min hole size:

Minimum number of consecutive dropped RTP packets. The sequence 1,2,3,10,11,12,15 gives a min hole size of 2.

Max hole size:

Maximum number of consecutive dropped RTP packets. The sequence 1,2,3,10,11,12,15 gives a max hole size of 6.

Min hole sep:

Minimum number of RTP packets separating any holes. The sequence 1,2,3,10,11,12,15 gives a min hole sep of 3.

Num holes:

Number of packet loss sequences. The sequence 1,2,3,10,11,12,15 gives a num holes of 2.

FEC mode: The CoP3 FEC mode

FEC drops:

Number of RTP packet drops in the main stream that the FEC could not correct

C-FEC drops: Number of IP packets in the column-FEC streams dropped

R-FEC drops: Number of IP packets in the row-FEC streams dropped

Statistical parameters

MPEG-2 transport stream parameters

: Click the information icon to access the Detailed Monitoring pop-up view.

Name: The stream name speciﬁed by the user in the Edit Multicast view

ES(IAT):

Number of seconds during selected period with Inter-packet Arrival Time higher than associated Ethernet IAT warning threshold

ES(MLR):

Number of seconds during selected period with Media Loss (corresponding to number 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 during selected period without signal

Peak(IAT): Peak Inter-packet Arrival Time during selected period.

Sum(MLR): Sum of Media Loss during selected period (equals number of TS packets lost)

Peak(bitr): Peak stream bitrate during selected period

Thumbnails

The probe will try to generate thumbnail pictures for all streams. For multi-program transport

streams (MPTS) the ﬁrst video component is selected. MPEG-2, H.264/MPEG-4, H.265/HEVC

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and JPEG 2000 video formats in standard deﬁnition, high deﬁnition or ultra-high deﬁnition are supported in MPEG-2 transport streams, as well as SMPTE 2022-6 uncompressed video in RTP streams.

The thumbnail update rate will depend on how the streams are coded and if they are standard

deﬁnition, high deﬁnition or ultra-high deﬁnition. It is possible to increase the update rate by opening the Thumb View pop-up, described below.

If the probe is unable to generate a thumbnail from the signal, it will present one of the following icons:

Shown if no data is received for the stream. There should be a match between presenting this icon and a No-signal alarm; however since the alarm and thumbnail mechanisms work independently of each other they have been given different names (loss of signal and no signal).

Shown while the thumbnail engine is trying to decode a thumbnail picture and more precise status information has not yet been obtained. This icon is typically displayed after probe reboot or if new streams have recently been joined.

Shown if the service does not carry a video PID — which is the case for radio services.

The stream contains no service, as signaled in PSI/SI.

The signal cannot be decoded due to excessive CC errors or RTP packet drops.

The probe does not support thumbnail generation for this protocol mapping.

The signal 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 is unable to correctly decode a thumbnail picture.

The signal is recognized as being MPEG-H/H.265 encoded but the thumbnail extractor is unable to correctly decode a thumbnail picture.

The signal is recognized as being JPEG 2000 encoded but the thumbnail extractor is unable to correctly decode a thumbnail picture.

The signal is recognized as being an uncompressed (raw) video stream but the thumbnail extractor is unable to correctly decode a thumbnail picture.

This icon is shown if the probe is unable to receive or analyze the PMT PID. Only streams with PSI information can have thumbnails decoded since the probe does not support a manual speciﬁcation of the video PID.

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The probe can only generate a thumbnail picture if the video data is not scrambled.

Detailed Monitoring

The Detailed Monitoring pop-up is activated by clicking a stream line in the monitoring list.

The 10G Software Probe is continuously gathering detailed information for the selected multicast. The VB330-SW will continue updating the detailed information for the selected multicast until

another is selected. Clicking the

Clear

button will clear all information about the selected stream,

including PSI/SI analysis data.

The

Detailed Monitoring — Services

view lists detected MPEG-2 TS services (by analyzing the PSI/SI tables) or SMPTE 2022-6 SDI over IP components, providing the following aggregate information for each service:

Service/Pid:

For each 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:

This replaces the “Service/Pid” column for SMPTE 2022-6 SDI over IP streams, displaying the identiﬁed components.

Bitrate: Service or component bitrate in bits per second

Min bitr.: Minimum service or component bitrate in bits per second

Max bitr.: Maximum service or component bitrate in bits per second

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CC errors: Number of Continuity Counter occurrences

Thumb: Click thei icon to access the Thumb pop-up view, explained below

Type: The list entry service type or PID type

PCR: This ﬁeld will be checked if the corresponding PID carries PCR

Scr: This ﬁeld will be checked if the corresponding PID is scrambled

Directly beneath this list, the current parameters for the selected stream are displayed, as in the

Joined multicasts list.

In the

Detailed Monitoring — IAT

view the

Inter Arrival Time

histogram shows the accumulated number of IAT measurements within each presented interval. Vertical green lines indicate the maximum and minimum IAT values. By clicking the IAT range buttons it is possible to change the zooming of the graph. If the

IAT auto

button is pressed the diagram will auto-scale to always

include the minimum and maximum IAT readings.

The IAT histogram is a very useful and intuitive measure of how well the network is performing in

terms of forwarding real-time trafﬁc. A predictable 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. Clicking the

Under the IAT histogram the the selected stream are displayed. Clicking the

Multicasts — Parameters (Current parameters)

Clear

Clear IAT

button will clear the IAT graph.

measurements for

button will clear all information about the

selected stream, including PSI/SI analysis data.

Clicking the

MediaWindow

button will open the Media Window

Selected channel

view. This is

described in section 5.5.

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Note that for variable bitrate streams the IAT histogram will show a very different IAT distribution compared to the histogram for a constant bitrate stream. The histogram in the screenshot above displays the IAT distribution for a CBR stream.

Thumb View

The

Thumb View

— Services

view. This view presents a large thumbnail, as well as video and audio metadata for the

pop-up is accessed by clicking an information icon in the

Detailed Monitoring

selected stream, with an increased update rate compared to non-selected streams. Service audio level is indicated by one audio level bar per audio component. The same pop-up can be opened from the Main — Thumb Overview view, see chapter 5.1.3 for more 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

Language: The audio language, as derived from PSI/SI

Average: The average audio level in dB, measured over 0.4 seconds

Peak: The peak audio level in dB, detected during 0.4 seconds

Audio level:

An audio level bar displaying the average audio level as a green bar referenced to

the peak audio level, the peak level being indicated by a white line

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Please note that audio information is only decoded when requested by opening this window. Initial extraction of audio information can take up to one minute.

The right-hand column will display the following detailed metadata:

Multicast

Name:

The name of the multicast containing the selected service, as deﬁned by the user

Type:

The type of the stream containing the selected service; multicast or unicast

Multicast address: The multicast address of the stream containing the selected service

Multicast port: The port number of the multicast containing the selected service

Transport stream ID:

The ID of the selected stream as shown in the list of multicasts in the Ethernet section; non-TS services display 1 here

Stream status: The status of the stream containing the selected service, as reported by

the decoding engine

Bitrate:

The total stream bitrate of the multicast containing the selected service (bits/s)

Service

Service ID:

The service ID of the selected service; non-TS services display 1 here

PSI/SI Name:

The name of the selected service, as derived from PSI/SI; non-TS services display 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

Number of PIDs/Components:

The number of PIDs or components associated with the selected service

Bitrate: The total bitrate of the selected service (bits/s)

Video PID/Component

PID/Component:

The video PID of the selected service for MPEG-TS services, or the video component number for non-TS services

Has PCR: Yes if the selected stream contains PCR, No if not

Bitrate: The video PID bitrate of the selected service

PES sync: The latest PES sync state

PES length indicator:

If signaled in the PES packet header, the PES packet length is displayed; for non-TS services “N/A” is displayed

Status: The status of the video PID as reported by the decoding engine

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Video Information

Size: The video picture size of the selected service

Aspect ratio:

Pixel aspect ratio:

Codec: The video encoding format of the selected service

Quality: The video sampling format of the selected service

Frame rate: The video frame rate of the selected service (Hz)

PID/Component:

Type: The audio encoding standard

Has PCR: Yes if the selected Audio PID contains PCR

Language:

Bitrate: The audio bitrate for this PID or component (bit/s)

The video aspect ratio of the selected service, or “N/A” if no information is

available

The video pixel aspect ratio of the selected service, or “N/A” if no informa-

tion is available

Audio PID/Component

The audio PID of the selected service for MPEG-TS services, or the audio

component number for non-TS services Note that there may be several audio PIDs or components associated with a service

The language of the audio, as deﬁned in the MPEG-TS Program Map Table (PMT)

Is scrambled: ‘Yes’ if the audio PID is scrambled.

Peak level:

The peak audio level in dB, detected during a period of approximately 0.4

seconds

Average level:

The average audio level in dB, measured over a period of approximately 0.4

seconds

Audio Information PID/Component

Codec: The audio encoding format

Samplerate: The audio sample rate (Hz)

Channels: The number of audio channels represented by the audio PID or component

Layout: The audio channel layout

Format: The binary format of the audio stream

Bitrate: The effective audio bitrate (bit/s)

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5.4.2 Multicasts — Parameters — Fields

The

Multicasts — Parameters — Fields

in the

Params view for thumbnail availability.

Multicasts — Parameters

5.4.3 Multicasts — Summary

view enables selection of the parameters to be displayed

view. Note that thumbnails must also be enabled in the

Setup —

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The intention of this page, together with the

alarm list

, is to provide enough information for the operator to immediately see if there is anything seriously wrong with one or more Ethernet input streams. The overall status for the Full Service Monitoring (FSM) is also shown.

Throughout this view the bulb colors indicate the most severe active alarm. They may be green (no

alarm), yellow (warning), orange (error) or red (major). The bulb color is based on user deﬁned alarm severity settings for each alarm. A grey bulb indicates that monitoring is disabled.

The following Ethernet parameters are shown:

Eth streams withactive alarms:

Shows the number of streams that are presently in 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 the data/video interface(s). It should be greater than or equal to the Monitoring bitrate.

Monitoring:

This is the total number of Ethernet streams monitored and the total bitrate for these streams.

Full ServiceMonitoring status:

The number of enabled FSM services / number of OK FSM services

The probe is capable of monitoring several thousand streams simultaneously. The probe splits

streams into pages for easy handling. Each of the 30 predeﬁned pages can be given a name and have a user deﬁned number of streams associated.

Part of the page-status is error-second statistics for the fundamental parameters

MLR,RTP,overﬂ

and nosig summed across all streams belonging to that page.

The error-second statistics interval is selected by clicking the buttons. For example, clicking the

ES–8h

button will present error-seconds for the last 8 hours. If 10 streams for a page have been

without signal for the last 8 hours, the nosig will show as 80hours.

The following parameters are presented (note that the error second values are accumulated from

probe boot time, and they will only be cleared by reboot or by clicking the

Clear all

counters button

in the Main view):

‘Bulb’:

The bulb indicates the most severe active alarm for any of the streams on the page. Active alarms are located on top of the alarm list. The alarm severity is reﬂected by the color of the associated icon. Next to the bulb is a link that will lead to the

Monitoring page

if pressed. The

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 period with continuity counter errors in the MPEG2 transport stream (which corresponds to the number of seconds with non-zero Media Loss Rate).

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ES(RTP): Number of seconds in selected period with RTP packet-drop

ES(overﬂ): Number of seconds in selected period with bitrate overﬂow

ES(nosig): Number of seconds in selected period where no signal (i.e. no data) was received

5.4.4 Multicasts — History

The probe keeps statistical Ethernet information for the last 4 days for visual inspection in the

history timeline view.

Each bar in the histogram corresponds to a number of events that occurred within a certain time interval. The interval that each bar represents depends on the scale, from 1 minute (when 90 min is selected) to 1 hour (when 4 days is selected).

Clicking the Clear history button will reset all history graphs.

Tool-tip information is available for each bar and shows the time-interval for the bar and its exact value. For example, the tool-tip information ‘1315-1330:2’ means that within the time interval 13:15–13:30 there were 2 occurrences.

The histogram is updated every minute.

Any subset of the following parameters can be selected, click the

effect:

No signal:

CCerr:

The number of streams that reported the ‘No signal’ alarm during the interval represented by the bar.

The number of times a discontinuity has been detected for all the MPEG-2 Transport Stream continuity counters in the interval represented by the bar. This parameter corresponds to the sum of CC errs reported by all streams.

Apply

button for changes to take

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RTPdrop:

Accumulated number of dropped IP-frames due to network errors in the interval

represented by the bar. This parameter corresponds to the sum of reported by all streams.

RTP drops

RTPdup:

RTPooo:

Tot bitr: Bitrate sensed on the data/video interface(s).

Mon bitr: Bitrate on the data/video interface(s) corresponding to joined multicasts.

CRC errs:

Note that the history graphs show the sum for all streams being analyzed across all pages. So for example, if two streams experience

Accumulated number of duplicate IP-frames in the interval represented by the bar.

This parameter corresponds to the sum of RTP dups reported by all streams.

Accumulated number of times a packet has been found to be out of order in the

interval represented by the bar. This parameter corresponds to the sum of reported by all streams.

Detected CRC errors. Ethernet CRC errors are most likely caused by a bad cable or a misconﬁgured router. A CRC error may impact packet loss measurements such as CC errors and RTP errors.

No signal

at the same time the

No signal

graph will increase by

5.4.5 Multicasts — Detect

Please see chapter 5.7.2 on page 96.

RTP ooo

5.4.6 Multicasts — SAP

The

SAP

view displays streams announced using the Session Announcement Protocol, detected by

the VB330-SW.

As long as

continuously try to detect streams. Click the mode. Click the Refresh button to update the stream list in ofﬂine mode.

Enable SAP discovery

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View list ofﬂine

Setup — Params

view, the VB330-SW will

button to view the stream list in ofﬂine

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The source address makes it possible for the 10G Software Probe to distinguish between multicasts with the same destination IP address and port, provided that

enabled in the Setup — Params view.

If the stream is currently joined by the 10G Software Probe (i.e. the VB330-SW is currently monitoring the stream), the Joined ﬁeld is set to yes.

Detected streams can be added to the VB330-SW’s stream list by selecting streams and clicking the

Add selected to stream list

pressed.

. To add all detected streams the

Source speciﬁc multicasts

Add all to stream list

button can be

5.4.7 Multicasts — Join

has been

In order for the deﬁned Ethernet multicasts to be monitored by the probe, they must be joined.

The

Multicasts — Join

multicasts that are joined by the probe.

Streams deﬁned in the side of the arrows in this view. Select streams to be monitored by clicking them and moving them to the right hand side of this view using the arrow. Changes should be conﬁrmed by clicking the changes button.

Joined streams may be freely associated with the 30 probe pages. The streams will be presented in

the Joined multicasts list in the Multicasts — Parameters view.

It is possible to ﬂush or ﬁll the multicasts/unicasts to monitor list by clicking the corresponding button. Note that these operations will take effect immediately; it is not necessary to click changes for multicasts to be joined or unjoined.

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view and the

Multicasts — Streams

view allow the user to select which

view will appear as available streams on the left hand

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5.4.8 Multicasts — Streams

In this view the operator can deﬁne multicasts available to the probe and associate a name with each multicast address. This name will be used by the probe when referring to the multicast. If no name has been deﬁned the probe will use the multicast address:port notation.

It is possible to add, delete or edit several entries simultaneously. Several entries are selected by using the regular Ctrl + click or Shift + click functionality. When adding new entries the current dialogue values will be used as the template with the values for Name and Address incremented for each.

Note that both multicast and unicast addresses can be entered here.

The

Distribute ETR engines

the unused ETR engines. An ETR engine is considered unused if no stream with ETR enabled is assigned to it.

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 matching the speciﬁed text.

Clicking

Multicast — Streams — Edit selected

multicasts. Clicking of channels). Unjoining one or more multicasts is done by selecting multicasts and clicking selected or by clicking Unjoin all.

When the Edit button is clicked it is possible to deﬁne the following multicast parameters (note that

some parameters are only relevant and selectable when the probe is equipped with the ETR 290 option and T2MI option respectively):

Add new

will join the selected multicasts and enable monitoring. The probe will only analyze joined

or selecting one or more multicasts and clicking

Join all

button will distribute the selected streams, with ETR disabled, on

Edit selected

pop-up view. When multicasts have been deﬁned, clicking

will join all multicasts in the list (up to the licensed maximum number

will open the

Join

Unjoin

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Name:

Address:

General

A name should be assigned to each unicast/multicast. The name will be used throughout the VB330-SW user interface when referring to this stream. It may also be used by an external management system like the VideoBRIDGE Controller.

The IP address of the unicast or multicast. For a T2MI inner stream enter a dummy address.

Port:

Ethernet thresholds:

VBC thresholds:

Join stream:

Extract thumbnails:

Join interface:

Page:

The port number of the unicast or multicast. For a T2MI inner stream enter a dummy port number.

The Ethernet thresholds specify various error limits. Selectable Ethernet thresholds templates are deﬁned in the

Multicasts — Ethernet thresh.

view. For a T2MI stream select a dummy threshold template.

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. VBC threshold templates are deﬁned in the Setup — VBC thresh. view.

Check the ‘Join stream’ check box to join a multicast or unicast. Only joined streams are analyzed. A stream may also be joined from the

Multicasts — JoinorMulticasts — Streams

views, and the status of

this check box will be updated accordingly.

When enabled, the probe will generate thumbnails for this multicast. In order to enable this option, Extract thumbnails also needs to be enabled in the Setup — Params view

Select which interface to join the selected multicast. The data interface(s) are listed.

For easy navigation, each stream can be assigned a speciﬁc page. The names of the pages are deﬁned in Setup — Pages.

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SSM

SSM source 1:

If source speciﬁc multicasts (SSM) is enabled in the VB330-SW and a zero source address is speciﬁed for a multicast it will be joined using IGMP version 2 (i.e. without a source). This allows both source speciﬁc multicasts and nonsource speciﬁc multicasts to co-exist in the same network and be joined by the

VB330-SW.

SSM source 2:

Additional SSM source addresses may be speciﬁed to enable back-up solutions.

Note that it is the operator’s responsibility to ensure that a multicast is only transmitted by one SSM source at any time.

SSM source 3: Additional SSM source address SSM source 4: Additional SSM source address SSM source 5: Additional SSM source address

ETR (ETR290 Option)

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Enable ETR:

ETR monitoring of a stream will not take place unless it is enabled by this setting. This parameter is only relevant if the probe is ETR enabled.

Select ETR engine:

ETR thresholds:

PID thresholds:

Service thresholds:

Reference table set:

If the probe is licensed for several Ethernet ETR engines the user may select which engine should be used to analyze the stream. The default ETR engine selection is Ethernet1. It is also possible to use the

Distribute

ETR engines button described above to assign streams to engines.

The ETR thresholds specify various error limits and alarm conditions. Selectable ETR thresholds templates are deﬁned in the

thresh.

view. The round-robin cycling time is also deﬁned by this thresh-

ETR 290 — ETR

old template. This parameter is only relevant if the probe is ETR enabled.

The PID thresholds specify various error limits and alarm conditions. Selectable PID thresholds templates are deﬁned in the

thresh.

view. This parameter is only relevant if the probe is ETR enabled.

ETR 290 — PID

The Service thresholds selection deﬁnes various error limits and alarm conditions. Selectable service thresholds templates are deﬁned in the

ETR 290 — Service thresh.

view. This parameter is only relevant if the

probe is ETR enabled.

The Reference table set selection is used to compare the tables in the transport stream with a set of stored tables. These tables are deﬁned in the ETR 290 — Gold TS thresholds view.

T2MI (T2MI Option)

Container stream:

For an T2MI inner stream the container stream (outer stream) must be speciﬁed. Select the container stream from the drop-down menu. For streams other than T2MI inner streams (none) should be selected.

Data PID: The container stream PID carrying the inner stream

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PLP ID:

The PLP ID for the inner stream. Select a ﬁxed PLP ID value from the drop-down menu or specify that the ﬁrst detected PLP ID should be used.

Redundancy

Has FEC:

The stream carries COP3 (SMPTE 2022-5) Forward Error Correction. If enabled, statistics about FEC drops and correctible errors will be reported for the stream.

First stream:

For a Seamless Protection Switching (SMPTE 2022-7) protected stream, select the ﬁrst of the two redundant RTP streams here. For other streams, (none) should be selected.

Second stream: Select the second of the two redundant 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 between the two streams. When two multicast/unicast streams are selected, the probe will report errors report errors if the same RTP packets are missing from both streams. Errors are also reported if the timing between the two stream exceeds the threshold settings.

Seamless Protection Switching has been optimized for monitoring SDI over IP (SMPTE 2022-6) streams.

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L2TP

Session ID:

L2TP (remote PHY) streams are mapped into multicasts. In order to identify the correct stream the multicast address is entered in the here. The port number is not used, and will be shown as 0.

The session ID of the L2TP stream is speciﬁed here (or 0 if not used). It is used together with the multicast address to identify the L2TP stream.

General

tab and the session ID of the L2TP stream is speciﬁed

To identify available session IDs, join the stream ﬁrst and then use the

to see the session IDs that are available. Both IPv4 and IPv6 is supported.

Multicasts — Detect

5.4.9 Multicasts — Ethernet thresh.

Thresholds are used to determine when to actually raise an alarm upon detection of an error. The

Ethernet thresholds are used for generating Ethernet probe alarms as well as for calculating errorseconds. Error seconds and ETH probe alarms are issued whenever measurements exceed the

view

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deﬁned threshold levels for a parameter. Ethernet thresholds are also used to scale some graphs like the MediaWindow graphs. The alarm level of each of these alarms is set in the

Alarms — Alarm

setup view. Note that it is also possible to disable alarms in the Alarms — Alarm setup view.

The

Multicasts — Ethernet thresh.

at stream level. Thresholds are associated with each stream in the

view makes it possible to deﬁne threshold values that operate

Multicasts — Streams — Edit

view. There are two different 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 to deﬁne alarm conditions. Another way of creating a user-deﬁned

threshold template is by highlighting one of the threshold templates already deﬁned and then click the Duplicate highlighted button.

Deleting a threshold template is done by highlighting the threshold template that should be removed and clicking entries are selected by using the regular Ctrl + click or Shift + click functionality. Click the

Delete selected

. It is possible to delete or edit several entries simultaneously. Several

Edit

button to edit one or more selected threshold templates. Note that the predeﬁned ‘Default’ threshold template cannot be deleted or changed.

In the threshold presets list the ‘Refs’ column displays how many streams are associated with each stream threshold template.

Ethernet thresholds

Name: A text string that identiﬁes the Ethernet threshold

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IAT:MLR error:

This threshold contains error 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 exceeded the alarm ‘IAT >= err-thresh’ will be raised. If the MLR limit is exceeded the alarm ‘MLR

>= err-thresh’ will be raised. The severity (and hence the color used in the

MediaWindow view) for IAT:MLR errors depend on the severity assigned to these alarms in the Alarms — Alarm setup view. Note that error seconds based on MLR are counted regardless of this threshold if one or more packets are missing.

IAT:MLR warning:

Max bitrate:

Min bitrate:

No signal:

RTP drop limit:

Ignore PID loss:

This threshold 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 exceeded the alarm ‘IAT >= warn-thresh’ will be raised. If the MLR limit is exceeded the alarm ‘MLR >= warn-thresh’ will be raised. The severity (and hence the color used

in the MediaWindow view) for IAT:MLR errors depend on the severity

assigned to these alarms in the Alarms — Alarm setup view.

The maximum bitrate in Mbit/s. An alarm will be raised if the stream

bitrate exceeds the maximum bitrate. The minimum bitrate in Mbit/s. A value of 0 will never generate an

alarm. A value of 0.1 Mbit/s will generate an alarm if the minimum

bitrate threshold is less than 0.1 Mbit/s.

Number of milliseconds without receiving any signal before the ‘No

signal’ alarm is raised

If the number of lost RTP packets exceeds the RTP drop limit an alarm will be raised. Note that error seconds based on packet drops are counted

regardless of this threshold.

A comma separated list of PIDs for which the probe should ignore packet

loss. Packet loss that affects these PIDs will not result in an error-second

count, and the ETR monitoring engine will not count these errors.

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5.5 MW (Media Window)

The

Media Window view provides an at-a-glance status for each of the multicasts/unicasts being monitored. From the graphs it is easy to see the jitter characteristics of the signal and if there is packet loss or CC errors present in the signal. Periods of no signal are also displayed.

The measurements are always 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 time). IAT is expressed in milliseconds.

The MLR is the peak estimated number of lost MPEG-2 Transport Stream packets inside any second within the actual time period. The number of lost TS packets is derived from the continuity counters

inside the TS packet headers.

A common scenario is to have 7 TS packets per UDP frame. Losing an IP packet will therefore

usually (but not always) result in an MLR of 7 (not always the case because some TS packets such as null packets or PCR packets do not carry a valid CC ﬁeld).

The patented Sencore VideoBRIDGE

surements in one graph, with jitter (IAT) values growing upwards (+ve Y) and packet loss (MLR) growing downwards (-ve Y). Each sample along the x-axis corresponds to a measurement timeinterval that depends on the range of the graph selected. Periods of no sync are also displayed in the graph.

Error-second statistics for the graph-interval is displayed to the right. As the graphs are zoomed or scrolled the error-second statistics is updated as well as the graphs.

Tool-tip provides the exact jitter (IAT) and packet loss (MLR) values for a selected bar in a selected

graph, the denotation is IAT::MLR. The current graph value displayed under ‘Running’ provides the maximum MLR and IAT values measured during the last 3 seconds.

Media Window

presents both jitter and packet loss mea-

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Red color is used to indicate that within the period represented by the bar there has been one or more occurrences of no-signal. Orange is used to 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 with the currently selected page should be

displayed (by clicking the list (by clicking the graphs, and by using the arrow buttons it is possible to move the timeline to view an error incident more accurately. Clicking Clicking the+1button will display the next page. Clicking the–1button will display the previous page.

All

Cur page

button). The time window buttons allow selection of x-axis resolution in the

Clear

button), or if all joined multicasts should be presented in one

will clear all graphs. Note that clearing graphs cannot be undone.

By zooming and panning the user can pinpoint more accurately when errors occurred. In the above diagram tooltip reveals that ‘No signal’ occurred between 9:15 and 9:20.

5.5.1 Media Window — Selected channel

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The

Media Window — selected channel

page. Clicking anywhere in the running graph will zoom in, unless you already are at the maximum zoom level.

view is activated by clicking a multicast label in the

This high-resolution version of the There are 3 times more samples along the X-axis, and the graph indicates visually the error and warning thresholds. Note that the time windows of the regular

— selected channel

both views.

By clicking the to display the selected channel even when navigating away from the probe. This also provides the ability to monitor media windows for several streams without starting several browser sessions.

are not exactly the same, even if the same time window has been selected for

Popup

button, a pop-up window will appear. This separate window can be used

Media Window

reveals more details than the compressed version.

Media Window

and

Media Window

5.5.2 Media Window — Bandwidth graph

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By clicking the negative part of the composite graphs is still the packet loss (i.e. the MLR).

BW:MLR

button the graph displays the peak bandwidth as a function of time. The

If the stream contains a transport stream (mapping TS/x) the bitrate corresponds to the parameter bitrate corresponding to the Multicasts parameter Curr bitrate.

The bandwidth error threshold is conﬁgured in the Multicasts — Ethernet thresh. view.

Net bitrate

(i.e. bitrate excluding null packets). Otherwise the bitrate is the UDP payload

5.5.3 Media Window — Inter Arrival Time graph

Multicasts

By clicking the composite graphs displays the RTP packet loss below the X-axis. If the monitored stream is not RTP encapsulated, IAT will be represented by grey color and there will never be any indication of packet loss in the graph.

IAT:RTP

button the graph displays the packet jitter as a function of time. The

5.6 RDP (Return Data Path)

The Return Data Path feature enables forwarding of streams from any probe interface to another

destination IP address. Stream may also be recorded to ﬁle, either directly or triggered by alarms.

The probe supports forwarding or recording of two streams in parallel.

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5.6.1 RDP — Control

Click the icons in the Control tab to activate or de-activate 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 recordings and triggered recordings the last recording is made available in the Destination column along with the metadata ﬁle. The metadata ﬁle contains basic information about the recording such as the recording size, list of PIDs and CC-errors for each PID. In the case of triggered recording, the alarm causing the recording is also included. Pressing the Delete button deletes the recording. For triggered recordings the number of recordings is stated in the Status column. Pressing the Delete button resets this counter. The buffer utilization is stated as a percentage and should never approach

100% for correct relaying or recordings.

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5.6.2 RDP — Setup

Each of the RDP engines is conﬁgured separately. First the Mode is selected. Depending on the mode either the Relay or Record settings needs to be conﬁgured. The Input selects the stream or interface to relay or record.

These are the settings:

Mode and Input

Mode: Select whether this RDP engine should relay, record or trigger-record.

Source interface:

Source Stream:

Content:

Selected PIDs:

When mode Relay over IP has been selected, the RDP parameters are:

The source interface drop-down menu allows selection of available input signals.

When Ethernet input is selected the user selects the stream to forward or record. Ethernet streams being joined/monitored by the probe are available for selection.

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 service are automatically displayed in the ‘Selected PIDs’ ﬁeld, and these may be edited if required.

The user can specify the PIDs to be selected, default is all PIDs. Typically PAT and PMT PIDs should be forwarded in addition to video and audio PIDs, however this depends on the equipment receiving the forwarded stream.

RDP Ethernet

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IPv4-address:

The unicast address or multicast address to forward to. Multicast addresses are in the range 224.0.0.0 – 239.255.255.255.

Port:

The port to forward to. The combination of IP address and port fully describes the destination address.

TTL:

Timeout:

The Time-To-Live ﬂagging of the relayed signal. The default value is 64.

The relaying period in minutes. If the value 0 is selected, no timeout applies, and relaying will continue until it is stopped manually.

Encapsulation:

The encapsulation format of the relayed stream.

UDPorRTP

selected.

Relay via interface: The available interfaces for forwarding the stream are listed.

When mode Record or Trigger recording has been selected the options are:

Record and trigger options

Rec timeout:

The maximum recording time in seconds. This setting enables the user to

limit recordings of low-bitrate streams.

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 recording from data after the trigger occurred.

Protect:

When in alarm trigger mode the user may select to protect a recording from

being overwritten due to a new alarm occurrence. The user may select between ‘Never overwrite’, ‘Do not protect’, ‘30 seconds’, ‘60 seconds’ and ‘5 minutes’.

Alarm trigger 1–3:

Select a maximum of three different alarms that should trigger recording. Note that a recording will start upon a transition from status OK to status alarm. Alarms that have been disabled in the

Alarm — Alarm setup

will be shown in brackets – these will never trigger a recording.

may be

view

The maximum recording size depends on the amount of free disk on the probe, up to a maximum of 1500 Mbyte.

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5.7 Trafﬁc

5.7.1 Trafﬁc — Protocols

The

Protocols

used.

view allows monitoring of IP trafﬁc on the selected port in terms of the protocols

The interface can be selected using the drop-down at the bottom of the page. Clicking the

statistics button will reset displayed values.

The following measurements are presented, depending on which statistic is selected:

Statistics

Statistic: The protocol for which the following 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 bitrate during any 1s period

Frames/sec: Trafﬁc speed in number of IP packets per second

Frames: Number of Ethernet frames

Frames %: Percentage of total number of frames

Min ﬂen: Minimum Ethernet frame length

Max ﬂen: Maximum Ethernet frame length

Bitrates

Statistic: As above

Cur bitrate: As above

Bitrates: A graph displaying the bitrate over time, displaying the last ﬁve minutes

Clear

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Bitrate graph:

Click the bitrate graph button to display a detailed bitrate graph for the speciﬁed protocol

Frames

Statistic: As above

Frames/sec: Trafﬁc speed for this protocol expressed in number of IP packets per second

Frames:

Frames graph:

A graph displaying frames per second over time, displaying the last ﬁve minutes

Click the frames graph button to display a detailed frames per second graph for the speciﬁed protocol

Interface statistics

Link status: Displays whether the interface is up or down

Link speed: Displays the interface speeds, as bits per second

Link duplex: Indicates whether the 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 IP packets that are correctable by the FEC

COP3 Uncorrectable:

Total count of dropped payload IP packets that cannot be corrected by the FEC

COP3 Late:

Payload or FEC packets are received slightly too late according to the buffer model and may result in errors in another implementation of the speciﬁcations. The number of packets with this error.

COP3 Errors:

Either the L/D parameters are not consistent across the streams or payload/FEC packets are received too late or too early according to the buffer model. The number of packets with these errors.

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5.7.2 Trafﬁc — Detect

The

Trafﬁc Detect

network mode should be enabled in the and not only multicasts already joined by the probe. Note that generally the upstream switch or router will not output streams that are not joined by downstream equipment, i.e. usually only joined streams will be available for monitoring.

view displays all UDP trafﬁc sensed by the probe. Note that promiscuous

Setup — Params

view for the probe to detect all trafﬁc,

If the unicast/multicast destination address is known to the probe (i.e. listed in the Streams view) the stream’s Name is looked up, otherwise a generic name is used.

When the

detect streams. Click the Refresh button to update the stream list in ofﬂine mode.

The source address makes it possible for the probe to distinguish between multicasts with the same

destination IP address and port, provided that Setup — Params view.

If the stream is currently joined by the probe (i.e. the probe is currently monitoring the stream), the

Joined ﬁeld is set to yes.

Detected streams can be added to the probe’s stream list by selecting streams and clicking the

selected to stream list

Only streams not already in the probe’s stream list are considered. Clicking the generate an XML-ﬁle that opens in a new window.

A drop down menu allows ﬁltering of detected streams, making is possible to view streams of a

speciﬁc type only. Stream types are deﬁned in the is enabled for the probe the Detect list will contain the following additional columns: Mapping, signal, RTP drops, CC errors and Bitrate. These parameters are the same as on the

Trafﬁc — Detect

View list ofﬂine

. To add all detected streams the

view is entered after probe booting, the probe will continuously try to

button to view the stream list in ofﬂine mode. Click the

Source speciﬁc multicasts

Add all to stream list

Trafﬁc — Filter setup

has been enabled in the

button can be pressed.

view. If the AEO option

Multicasts —

Export

Multicasts

Add

button will

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: Click the blue information icon to pop up the detailed stream info.

Dst address: The multi- or unicast address Src address: The stream source address

Name:

Interface: The stream source network interface (physical or VLAN)

Joined: If the stream is joined by the probe this ﬁeld will read ‘Yes’.

CPU: The probe CPU used to analyze the stream (1-7)

The stream name, as deﬁned in the will be used for multi- or unicasts not deﬁned by the user.

Multicasts — Streams

view. A generic name

Mapping:

Signal: The duration of stream availability

RTP drops:

CC errors: The number of detected continuity counter errors for the stream.

Bitrate: The stream bitrate

The transport stream to IP mapping. Typically seven transport stream packets are

mapped into one IP packet.

The number of detected RTP drops for the stream. This is only valid if the stream

is RTP encapsulated.

5.7.3 Trafﬁc — Filter statistics

The

Trafﬁc — Filter statistics

Stream types are deﬁned by the user in the Trafﬁc — Filter setup view.

Statistics is displayed for a time period selected by clicking one of the time duration buttons.

Filter: The ﬁlter name, as deﬁned by the user in the Trafﬁc — Filter setup view.

Streams: The number of streams matching the associated ﬁlter.

Bitrate: The total summed bitrate for streams matching the associated ﬁlter.

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view makes it possible to view statistics for different stream types.

Filter statistics:

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RTP loss %:

Percentage of time an average stream that matches the ﬁlter experiences RTP packet loss inside selected time period. Example: If the

Last 1m

period is selected and there are totally three streams

caught by ﬁlter:

• stream A: present for 60 seconds, 4 RTP error seconds

• stream B: present for 30 seconds, 0 RTP error seconds

• stream C: present for 30 seconds, 5 RTP error seconds

RTP loss % = 9ES / 120s RTP loss % = 9ES / 3streams / 120s *100% = 7.5%

MLR %:

Percentage of time an average stream that matches the ﬁlter experiences MLR inside selected time period. The calculation is similar to that for RTP loss %.

Avg str bitr: The average bitrate for streams matching 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 2. The stream alive counter is the number of seconds the stream has existed. This gives accurate results for streams that begin within the selected time period, but may give up to twice the real bitrate for streams that begin (long) before the selected period. Examples: a stream exists for 100 seconds, and begins within the selected period. The calculation becomes: Stream duration = (1+2+. . . +100)/100*2 = 101 If the same stream started 50 seconds before the selected period, the calculation becomes: Stream duration = (51+52+. . . +100)/50*2 = 151

Clicking the icon next to each value brings up the detailed graph window.

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The detailed graph window displays up to 4 days of history.

Trending

Clicking the

Trending last 60m

button will present at-a glance trending graphs for each parameter

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 all the ﬁlters so that they can easily be compared.

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The detailed trending graph above displays MLR errors for all ﬁlters.

5.7.4 Trafﬁc — Filter setup

The

Trafﬁc — Filter setup

Trafﬁc — Detect

the user.

and

view makes it possible to deﬁne stream ﬁlter requirements affecting the

Trafﬁc — Filter statistics

views. Ten ﬁlters can be deﬁned and enabled by

Statﬁlter settings:

Name: A text string deﬁning the ﬁlter

Enabled: Only enabled ﬁlters are in use

Streams: The number of streams matching ﬁlter requirements

Cast: The type of stream: No ﬁltering, Only unicasts or Only multicasts

RTP:

VLAN:

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The RTP mode: No ﬁltering, Only with RTP header or Only without RTP header

VLAN selection mode: No ﬁltering, Only tagged trafﬁc, Only untagged trafﬁc or Require matching speciﬁed value (a speciﬁc VLAN ID).

Sencore VB330-SW User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Contents

Document Revision History

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 About the 10G Software Probe

1.1.1 VB330-SW – Overview

1.1.2 10G Software Probe – Functionality

1.2 How to Use This Manual

2 PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION

3 INSTALLATION AND INITIAL SETUP

3.1 System Requirements

3.2 First-time Installation

3.3 Deploying in a Virtualized Environment

3.4 Verifying Correct Initial Setup and Software Activation

3.5 Initial Setup Troubleshooting

3.6 Upgrading From a Previous Version

3.6.1 Upgrading by Re-Installing the System

3.6.2 Upgrading From Version 5.3.0 or later

3.7 Upgrading To a Maintenance Release

3.8 Accessing the User Interface

3.9 Accessing Software Activation interface

3.10 Deactivating

4 QUICK SETUP GUIDE

4.1 Basic Setup

4.2.1 Multicasts

4.2.2 OTT Input (OTT Engine Option Only)

4.3 Monitoring

4.4 Adjusting Alarm Thresholds

5.1 Main

5.1.1 Main — Summary

5.1.2 Main — CPU usage

5.1.3 Main — Thumb overview

5.1.4 Main — Eii graphing

5.2 Alarms

5.2.1 Alarms — All Alarms

5.2.2 Alarms — Alarm setup

5.3 OTT (Option)

5.3.1 OTT — Active testing

5.3.2 OTT — Details

5.3.2.2 OTT — Details — Manifest

5.3.2.3 OTT — Details — Alarms

5.3.2.4 OTT — Details — Thumbnails

5.3.2.5 OTT — Details — Alignment

5.3.3 OTT — Latency

5.3.4 OTT — Channels

5.3.5 OTT — Settings

5.3.6 OTT — Thresholds

5.4 Multicasts

5.4.1 Multicasts — Parameters

5.4.2 Multicasts — Parameters — Fields

5.4.3 Multicasts — Summary

5.4.4 Multicasts — History

5.4.5 Multicasts — Detect

5.4.6 Multicasts — SAP

5.4.7 Multicasts — Join

5.4.8 Multicasts — Streams

5.4.9 Multicasts — Ethernet thresh.

5.5 MW (Media Window)

5.5.1 Media Window — Selected channel

5.5.2 Media Window — Bandwidth graph

5.5.3 Media Window — Inter Arrival Time graph

5.6 RDP (Return Data Path)

5.6.1 RDP — Control

5.6.2 RDP — Setup