Sencore VB330 User manual

VB3xx
10G Probes
User’s Manual
Software version 5.2
Form 8046D
VB3xx 10G Probe User’s Manual version 5.2
2016 c Sencore
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Contents
Contents 3
1 INTRODUCTION 7
1.1 About the 10G Probe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.1.1 VB330 – Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.1.2 10G Probe – Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.2 How to use this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2 PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION 10
3 SAFETY 12
4 INSTALLATION AND INITIAL SETUP 13
4.1 Quick Installation Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.2 The Enhanced Chassis (VB300) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.2.1 Dual Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.2.2 Cooling System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.3 The Enhanced Chassis –48V DC version (VB300-DC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.3.1 Dual Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.3.2 Cooling System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.3.3 VB300-DC Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.4 Serial Number Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.5 The Hardware Modules and Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.5.1 The 10G Probe Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.6 Installing the Unit in a Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.6.1 Default Installation — Connectors at the Front of Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.6.2 Optional Installation — Connectors at the Rear of Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.6.3 Optional Installation — Mid-Mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.7 Powering up the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.8 Initial Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.8.1 Initial Configuration Using the Pre-Set IP-Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.8.2 Initial Configuration Via Serial Console Emulated Over USB . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.8.3 Verifying Correct Initial Setup of the 10G Probe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.8.4 Initial Setup Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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5 QUICK SETUP GUIDE 24
5.1 Basic Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.2 Input Signal Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.2.1 Multicasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.2.2 OTT Input (OTT Engine Option Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.3 Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.4 Adjusting Alarm Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
6 THE 10G PROBE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE 27
6.1 Main ............................................. 28
6.1.1 Main — Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6.1.2 Main — CPU usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
6.1.3 Main — Thumb overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
6.1.4 Main — Eii graphing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
6.2 Alarms ............................................ 35
6.2.1 Alarms — All Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
6.2.2 Alarms — Flash Alarms (FLASH option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
6.2.3 Alarms — Alarm setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
6.3 OTT (Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
6.3.1 OTT — Active testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
6.3.2 OTT — Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
6.3.2.1 OTT — Details — Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
6.3.2.2 OTT — Details — Manifest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.3.2.3 OTT — Details — Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
6.3.2.4 OTT — Details — Thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
6.3.2.5 OTT — Details — Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
6.3.3 OTT — Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
6.3.4 OTT — Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
6.3.5 OTT — Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
6.4 Multicasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
6.4.1 Multicasts — Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
6.4.2 Multicasts — Parameters — Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
6.4.3 Multicasts — Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
6.4.4 Multicasts — History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
6.4.5 Multicasts — Join . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
6.4.6 Multicasts — Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
6.4.7 Multicasts — Ethernet thresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
6.5 MW (Media Window) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
6.6 RDP (Return Data Path) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
6.6.1 RDP — Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
6.6.2 RDP — Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
6.7 Traffic............................................. 84
6.7.1 Traffic — Protocols (requires AET-OPT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
6.7.2 Traffic — Detect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
6.7.3 Traffic — Filter statistics (AET Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
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6.7.4 Traffic — Filter setup (AET Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
6.7.5 Traffic — Microbitrate (AET Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
6.8 Ethernet ........................................... 94
6.8.1 Ethernet — IGMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
6.8.2 Ethernet — FSM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
6.8.2.1 Ethernet — FSM — Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
6.8.2.2 Ethernet — FSM — Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
6.8.2.3 Ethernet — FSM — Syslog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
6.8.3 Ethernet — PCAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
6.9 ETR 290 (Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
6.9.1 ETR 290 — ETR Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
6.9.2 ETR 290 — ETR Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
6.9.3 ETR 290 — PIDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
6.9.4 ETR 290 — Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
6.9.5 ETR 290 — Bitrates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
6.9.6 ETR 290 — Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
6.9.7 ETR 290 — PCR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
6.9.8 ETR 290 — T2MI (Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
6.9.9 ETR 290 — SCTE 35 (Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
6.9.10 ETR 290 — Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
6.9.11 ETR 290 — Compare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
6.9.12 ETR 290 — ETR thr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
6.9.13 ETR 290 — PID thresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
6.9.14 ETR 290 — Service thresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
6.9.15 Golden TS reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
6.10 Setup............................................. 146
6.10.1 Setup — Params . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
6.10.2 Setup — Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
6.10.3 Setup — Colors (requires EXTRACT-OPT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
6.10.4 Setup — Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
6.10.5 Setup — Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
6.10.5.1 Setup — Ethernet — IPv6 Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
6.10.5.2 Example 1 – Separate Management IPv4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
6.10.5.3 Example 2 – In-Line Management IPv4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
6.10.5.4 Example 3 – Mixed Mode IPv4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
6.10.6 Setup — VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
6.10.7 Setup — VBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
6.10.8 Setup — Login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
6.10.9 Setup — ETR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
6.10.9.1 Parsing rules for private descriptors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
6.10.9.2 ETR 290 tuning control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
6.10.9.3 ETR details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
6.10.9.4 EIT table IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
6.10.9.5 Inactive inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
6.10.10 Setup — VBC thresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
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6.10.11 Setup — Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
6.10.12 Setup — Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
6.10.13 Setup — Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
6.11 Data.............................................. 165
6.11.1 Data — Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
6.11.2 Data — Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
6.11.3 Data — Table Descriptors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
6.11.4 Data — Eii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
6.11.5 Data — Storage (FLASH option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
6.12 About............................................. 170
6.12.1 About — Release info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
6.12.2 About — License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
6.12.3 About — Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
6.12.4 About — Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
A Appendix: VB330 Versus VBC Alarms 173
B Appendix: Monitoring Practices 175
B.1 RTP Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
B.2 Default Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
B.3 Strategy for MediaWindow Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
B.3.1 IAT Before and After Router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
B.3.2 Identifying UDP Packet Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
B.4 Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
C Appendix: OTT Profile Health 181
C.1 OTT Profile Health Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
C.2 OTT Profile Health Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
D Appendix: Software Upload 183
D.1 Step 1: Obtain the software image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
D.2 Step 2: Export and save the probe configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
D.3 Step 3: Delete an existing probe stream recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
D.4 Step 4: Transfer the image to the probe and save to flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
D.5 Step 5: Wait while the software is being saved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
D.6 Step 6: Verify the new image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
D.7 Software upload troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
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1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 About the 10G Probe
1.1.1 VB330 – Overview
The VB330 10G Probe was made specifically for IPTV backbone network monitoring. Equipped with
two 10G SFP+ optical Ethernet inputs the 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 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 allows remote signal monitoring using a standard web-browser.
Management may take place either via a separate Ethernet network, or using the regular video/data
network – both IPv4 and IPv6 are supported.
The VB330 10G Probe can also be managed via the VideoBRIDGE Controller. The VideoBRIDGE
Controller will add management features like alarm aggregation and report functionality.
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The VB330 10G Probe is a module housed in a 1 RU chassis. Several VB330 modules may be installed
in one chassis, extending the monitoring capacity.
1.1.2 10G 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 Probe therefore uses the 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 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 Probe a real-time
sniffer capability.
The 10G 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.
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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 (tm) HLS, Microsoft (tm)
Smoothstream, RTMP, MPEG DASH and Adobe (tm) HDS.
The 10G 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 5.2 of the VB330 10G 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 3 SAFETY lists safety precautions, and this chapter should be read prior to equipment installation.
Chapter 4 INSTALLATION AND INITIAL SETUP explains how to install the equipment in a rack, and
also how to perform the necessary initial configuration of the 10G Probe management IP-address. A
step-by-step quick installation guide is found in section 4.1.
Chapter 5 QUICK SETUP GUIDE contains a quick setup guide; a step-by-step description of how to
setup a 10G Probe once the initial setup has been performed.
Chapter 6 THE 10G PROBE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE describes the graphical user interface
(GUI) as seen when pointing a web browser to the 10G Probe’s IP-address.
A Appendix: VB330 Versus VBC Alarms describes the alarm handling in the 10G Probe versus the
VideoBRIDGE Controller.
B Appendix: Monitoring Practices explains some useful Ethernet monitoring practices.
C Appendix: OTT Profile Health explains the OTT profile health bar and timeline.
D Appendix: Software Upload explains how to upgrade the software on the 10G Probe.
Note that current version of the User’s Manual can be obtained from Sencore ProCare support by
emailing [email protected].
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2 PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION
The VB330 module is equipped with two SFP+ optical ports and one Ethernet port. Management of the
VB330 is conducted via the Ethernet management port or alternatively in-band via the optical video/data
ports.
Figure 2.1: The VB330 10G Probe Module – Principle of Operation
A simplified diagram of the alarm handling mechanisms of the 10G Probe is shown in figure 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 Probe alarm list and sent as SNMP traps to an external management system.
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