Network test conflict checking
AssigneeIxia
InventorsNoah Gintis, Alok Srivastava, Victor Alston
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Abstract
There is disclosed a system and method for network test conflict checking. The method may be performed by a network testing system and may be implemented as software. The method may include receiving user selected test features and user selected hardware for a network test. When receiving user selected features, incompatible features are made unselectable by reference to a feature database. A compatibility check is performed by referring to a hardware database and a feature database. Suggestive corrective changes may be provided to a user or automatically made to the selected features and/or selected hardware. The network test is written to hardware when the compatibility test is successful.
Claims11
A network testing system having at least network card, the network card including a processor, a memory and a network communications unit, the network testing system coupled with a network, the network testing system having instructions stored thereon which when executed cause the network testing system to perform operations comprising:
- receiving user selection to create a network test;
- providing a user interface to allow the user to select test features for the network test;
- receiving selection of selected test features from the user to include in the network test;
- referring to a feature database to identify features that are incompatible with the selected test features;
- updating the user interface to make identified incompatible features unselectable;
- receiving selection of selected hardware from the user to use in the network test;
- referring to a hardware database to evaluate whether the selected hardware is compatible with the selected test features, including identifying whether there is a silent failure condition;
- when the selected hardware is incompatible with the selected test features, performing one or more of
- issuing a warning message to the user,
- identifying corrective changes to the selected hardware and/or the selected test features,
- notifying the user of suggested corrective changes to the selected hardware and/or the selected test features,
- automatically applying the corrective changes to the selected hardware and/or the selected test features.
A method for network testing comprising:
- receiving in a network testing system user selection to create a network test;
- providing a user interface to allow the user to select test features for the network test;
- receiving selection of selected test features from the user to include in the network test;
- referring to a feature database to identify features that are incompatible with the selected test features;
- updating the user interface to make identified incompatible features unselectable;
- receiving selection of selected hardware from the user to use in the network test;
- referring to a hardware database to evaluate whether the selected hardware is compatible with the selected test features, including identifying whether there is a silent failure condition;
- when the selected hardware is incompatible with the selected test features, performing one or more of
- issuing a warning message to the user,
- identifying corrective changes to the selected hardware and/or the selected test features,
- notifying the user of suggested corrective changes to the selected hardware and/or the selected test features,
- automatically applying the corrective changes to the selected hardware and/or the selected test features.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.