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Module 1
Course Intent
To provide users with no prior knowledge of Actix theoretical understanding of Actix capabilities To focus mainly on basic features rather than on implementation of macros and usage of advanced features To Show how the Actix RVS suite is used in practical tasks related to Nokia UMTS projects To provide the users with confidence in the usage of Actix by mean of practical exercises
Content
Module 1 Getting started Configuring Actix Learning Actix Module 3 Practical exercises /
(Working with scanner and call trace data)
Getting Started
What is Actix? Actix Solutions RVS Installation Licencing
Getting Started
Actix is a Post-Processing tool
Input: Tracer data: NEMO, TEMS, Qvoice Scanner Data Traffic records (switch traces), e.g. Ericsson, Motorola Protocol analyser data A, Abis, Gb interfaces e.g. Nethawk, Tektronix Output: Maps Charts Tables Reports Diagrams
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ACTIX SOLUTIONS
RVS Suite
Suitable to analyze measurements of the UMTS radio interface Support a large number of vendor/standard file formats for DT, trace, protocol analysers Provides results in a wide variety of formats Good user interface (easy to adapt) High level of customisation ability Structurised data presentation capabilities Fast overview analysis with pre-defined reports
Installation
Support Windows 2000 and Windows XP operation systems System spec. has a great impact on peformance e.g. 3GHz processor with 1 Gb Ram is good !! 1.5GHz processor with 512Mb Ram is enough if not big amount of data is processed During installation installation of MapX OCX modules takes time, be patient Post installation No need to re-boot
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Licencing
Single Machine Licencing: Dongle + Licence file Not transferrable
Licencing (2)
Sever Licencing: dinamic allocation of licences
Licencing (3)
Diagnostics Tool Start from actix program group Management -> AtxDiagnostics Generate report => This will show the licensing set-up If dongle ID not present in report => server licensing or dongle not detected License definitions File ActixLicensing.ini Located in <PATH>\Analyzer\Bin\LicenseDefinition Contains license server(s) and configuration options for server license management
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Configuring Actix
Menu overview Importing / Setting up Maps Configuring cellrefs file Open scanner files Information Attributes Working with data / Charts Tables Woorkbooks Open call trace file Adding attributes to favourites Log file browsing Protocol browser Message browser Log file combining Super streaming
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Configuration of Actix
Import Backdrop Map Import Network Data (sites and cells)
Ready to start!
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Main Window
Toolbar
Main menu
Status bar
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Main Menu/File
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Main Menu/View
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Main Menu/Analysis
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Main Menu/Tools
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Importing Map
View -> Display New Map Mapinfo Interface, add map in the same way as Mapinfo
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Map tools
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Learning Actix
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Learning Actix
Scanner files Open scanner files Information Attributes Charts Tables Woorkbooks Display element synchronisation Export data Call trace files Open call trace file Adding attributes to favourites Log file browsing
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Scanner files
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Notice that the BEST SERVER (Nth Nth Best) is defined and sorted always by the best Ec/Io
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Thresholds for RSCP Map representation is very convenient for displaying measurements from a topological point of view
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Right-click on the desired map element (in this case: RSCP) - > Modify Ranges Both levels and colors can be defined When the dialog window is closed settigs must be saved.
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>=-75 excellent
>= - 4 excellent
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CLicking on any point on the trace, the lines to best server (continuos) and second best server (dashed) are displayed
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We can thus set the same paramenters which are in the Network
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Topological Attributes
Serving cell is in this case the Best Server
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Syncronization can be activated from Tools -> Preferences (Auto Sync to stream) It is not enabled by default: computing power consuming Charts, Tables and Maps may display same attributes or different ones
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CHARTS: Also here there are two choices: Right-click on the chart and select Image Export.... Click on Copy on the chart window and record the image on the clipboard
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Message Browser
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Superstreaming
It is reccomended not to have very long logfiles when collecting data Smaller logfiles can be recombined with the superstream tool
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Superstreaming (2)
Tools -> Create Superstream Logfiles can be selected individually Superstream is available in the workspace browser Superstreming does not create a bigger logfile but rather combine the existing data using pointers.
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