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Spirent TestCenter - Is there a way on the GUI to find when (time/day) an error (i.e. FCS error) happened?

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Spirent TestCenter
  • v 5.23
Answer
Unfortunately there is no such option on the GUI to see the exact date/time when an error happens, however, there are two workarounds that can be tried to know this information:

1.Adding a chart to the configuration:
Lets focus on “RX FCS error Frame Count”:



The disadvantage of using charts, is that it just collect only the last 15 minutes, which could be not helpful at all for long term testing.
 
2. Creating a sequence adding an IF condition which if “RX FCS error Frame Count" > 0, save the result in a .db (that can be checked on the STC Results Reporter), and it will generate a time stamp on this .db anytime an FCS error ocurrs:





The disadvantage of doing this, is that the more FCS errors are in your testing, the heavier the .db will be.

 
Please find attached into this KB the .tcc file with these two examples.

 
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Attachment Description
Configuration file used for the workarounds explained

Product : Windows GUI