Compass Wireless
Compass Wireless is a product made by Anritsu. This note is intended for the user who has no previous experience in using Compass Wireless and wants to have an introduction in how to get started.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 What is Compass Wireless ..................................................................................... 3 1.2 Classic key Compass features ............................................................................... 3 1.3 What is new in comparison to legacy Compass products?................................. 3 1.4 License...................................................................................................................... 4 2 Getting Started .............................................................................................................. 5 2.1 Welcome to Compass Wireless .............................................................................. 5 2.2 Workbench and perspectives ................................................................................. 5 2.3 Workspace and initializing ...................................................................................... 6 2.4 Displaying workspace results................................................................................. 7 2.5 Working with tables ................................................................................................. 8 2.6 Working with graphs................................................................................................ 9 2.7 Message Decoding................................................................................................... 10 2.8 Navigating result views ........................................................................................... 10 2.9 Menu bar ................................................................................................................... 12 2.10 Online help system ................................................................................................. 12 3 Miscellaneous................................................................................................................ 13 3.1 Result views ............................................................................................................. 13 3.2 Common settings..................................................................................................... 13 3.3 External tools ........................................................................................................... 14 3.3.1 Gb deciphering tool............................................................................................. 14 3.3.2 File merging tool ................................................................................................. 14 3.4 FAQ list ..................................................................................................................... 15 3.5 Support ..................................................................................................................... 16
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1 Introduction
1.1 What is Compass Wireless
Compass Wireless is a post analysis tool that processes and presents result based on captured traffic files from a range of Anritsu and major competitive protocol analyzers and probes. Compass Wireless fits into all departments related to trouble shooting and optimizing of 2G, 2.5G, 2.75G, 3G and 3.5G networks. Compass Wireless is the continuation of the success and experience of Compass GSM, Compass GPRS and Compass UMTS each dedicated to analyzing captured traffic files related to GSM, (E)GPRS and UMTS within GERAN and UTRAN domains. Compass Wireless combines more than 600 statistical results and features of Compass GSM, Compass GPRS and Compass UMTS and brings this to a new level of power and performance utilizing a state of the art platform. Compass Wireless is based on the third generation platform of Compass using a completely new state-of-the-art Graphic User Interface and database framework. This ensures full scalability and usability, making Compass Wireless a future-proof solution.
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Capability of handling very large traffic files. Storage of data in MySQL database for handling of huge tables. Designed for true client-server architecture. Designed for easy expansion with future analysis products in the main application. Cross domain setup of network settings such as cell names. Advanced search feature. Extensive help system. Multiple identical windows can be open to compare results from e.g. two similar calls. User definable color highlighting of tables rows for emphasizing particular thresholds etc. User defined filtering and sorting with use of advanced expressions. Predefined highlighting and filtering of tables that can be activated and deactivated. User defined favorites (shortcuts) for most used features. Advanced centralized logging feature.
For more information about these features and general introduction to Compass Wireless read further in the Getting Started section. For information about installation issues such as centralized logging look into the Installation Guide.
1.4 License
Compass Wireless is license protected, using either a USB key or a license server. If the purchased license is a stand-alone single user license then insert this into an available USB port on the computer that is to run Compass Wireless. In the case of license server, set up the IP address of the license server during installation or afterwards using the server license setup tool available from the Anritsu windows program menu. Compass Wireless will first search the local computer for a license and then try the specified license server.
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Getting Started
The Welcome page may be displayed any-time by accessing it from the Help menu. The Help menu also contains the Help Contents that is the access to general help, feature help and protocol help. Use the online help to get detailed information about a particular result view or general help on how to operate Compass Wireless.
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The very first time Compass Wireless is started there will be no workspaces and you as a user have to create one or more workspaces. A Ready workspace is an initialized workspace which is the container of the processed results for one or optional two captured traffic files. Compass Wireless can contain many workspaces limited only by the disc capacity. Besides from the created workspaces the Compass Server perspective contains the License Information tab that can be used to get information of the license in use. Use this tab to get information, about which features are enabled, the ID of the signed SMA if any, the serial number, the type of license and other related information.
Traffic demo files containing neutralized subscriber information are available from the demos folder of the installation folder of Compass Wireless e.g. C:\Program Files\Anritsu\Compass Wireless\demos. For information about what each demo file contains look into the About Compass section for each domain within the Compass Wireless feature Help. After the traffic file or files has been processed successfully then the workspace changes state to Ready. When a workspace is in the Ready state it can be displayed in the Compass perspective. To open a workspace and display it, either double-click the workspace or choose Display Workspace from the pop-up menu using the right mouse button. For detailed information about handling workspaces read Working with workspaces in the general online help.
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Note that traffic files are still used by Compass Wireless after a workspace has been initialized. Compass Wireless does not process all details of the traffic file but rather processes enough details to display the statistics and indexes the rest. When necessary, Compass Wireless will access the traffic files and get additional information such as in the case of decoding a signaling message. The reason of this approach is two fold, first this reduces the size of the workspace and secondly the initial processing is very fast in comparison to other approaches. When data is accessed from the traffic file then this is done using indexes and in manner that ensure high performance. The speed in accessing additional data from the traffic file is in the same magnitude as if all the data have been in the database.
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The File Processing Report is a good starting point to find out what the processed traffic files contains in case it is not already known. Every other result in Compass Wireless depends upon what has been detected in the traffic file or files. If the Compass Menu is taking up too much space on the screen then it may be minimized, detached or the Fast View option may be selected. The Fast View option is available from the popup menu when right clicking the Compass Menu tab. When the Fast View option is chosen the Compass Menu will automatically minimize itself after e.g. a new result view is launched. To reopen the Compass Menu, click the Compass Wireless icon in the status bar.
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Alternatively use the Show View command on the Windows menu to display the various Table Configuration Views. Highlighting such as coloring rows and columns may also be applied to tables based on expressions in order to e.g. highlight certain excessive values. As for the Aggregation View, the Highlighting View is accessible from the main toolbar by clicking the icon.
The Filters View may be used to filter the table to display only certain values. The Sorting View may be used to sort the results in ways different from the ascending or descending way. The Columns View may be used to hide or change the appearance of columns (update the Columns View by using the refresh icon). The Aggregations View, the Sorting View, the Filtering View and the Highlighting View are all based on columns IDs as defined in the Columns Translations View. Note, that the Highlighting View and search is based on Jython syntax and is case sensitive where the other views are based on SQL syntax. For information on how to use the Aggregations View, Highlighting View, Filtering View and the other table configuration views look into the section Working with tables within the general online help. Note that if necessary the user defined table configuration may be reset to default from the Preferences dialog available from the Window menu. Alternatively the table configuration for a single result view may be merged with default settings if Reset/Merge with Defaults from the popup menu is available when selecting Show View Menu from the Window menu.
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From the pop-up menu it is also possible to select Export to export a chart into various formats or to choose Toggle Scroll Bar to activate or deactivate horizontal and vertical scrollbars. Scrollbars may be useful for navigating the chart when zoom is applied. For more detailed information about graphs look into Working with charts within the general online help.
For more detailed information about the Message Decoding view look into Working with message trees within the general online help.
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page). Panes may also be sized by dragging the grey line that separates most panes within a result view. Another example using panes is the list of workspaces and the selected workspace information pane as shown in the Workspaces tab of the Compass Server perspective. Icon navigation Description Arranges panes horizontally. Available only for results views with panes. Arranges panes vertically. Available only for results views with panes. Toggles pane maximization within a result view. A window stack is one or more result views which are accessible from taps placed next to each other in a tab group and where only the result view from the current selected tab is visible. This is the default behavior but in some cases it might be useful to display result views (Editors) in a way that makes two or more results view visible at the same time. To do so, a result view may be moved onto a new stack using the commands available from the Result menu or merely dragging the result view outside the areas covered by the stacks. New result views that are launched will appear in the current active stack. Results view may be closed by using the close (X) icon in the tab or choosing the various close options from the pop-up menu when right-mouse clicking the tab. In the figure below there are two stacks, one contains a tab group of three result views and the other stack contains a tab group of two results views. The CELL: Distribution of C/I result view has two panes which are arranged vertically and the Paging statistics per Paging Group result view has one pane only. A result view is selected in the stack containing the two result views and hence this becomes the active stack.
Compass Wireless offers many ways to arrange result views and perhaps this may occasionally be too much. In such a situation use the close options available from the File and Results menus to quickly close all views or stack all results views onto a single stack. If detachable windows such as the Compass Menu or the Table Configuration views have been arranged in a way that is undesirable, then choose Reset Perspective from the Window menu to return to the default
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settings. For a full list and detailed description of all commands available within Compass Wireless look into the Reference section within the general online help.
Window Help
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Miscellaneous
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2. Synchronization between A and Abis interfaces The File Merger searches for at least two calls being established with DTAP messages that can be seen on both interfaces. The time adjustment needed on timestamps of records in the second file is calculated in such a way that all messages part of the call establishment procedure match. Synchronization time is generally very short if recordings have started approximately at the same time. A long synchronization time indicates an important difference between the beginning of files or, at the worst case, no possible synchronization. If synchronization cannot be established, the time difference is defaulted to zero and files are merged using the timestamp. The File Merger compensates for the fact that the source IDs may be the same in both files without actually being the same sources. Whenever the tool detects a collision of source ID in the two files, the source IDs of the second file is modified to retain uniqueness. When time difference between files is established, the output file is created. Records are read from both files. Timestamp of records in first file is left unchanged while timestamp of records in second file is corrected by the time difference. Records are written sequentially in ascending order of resulting timestamp. At the end a text file named AmiMerge.txt is generated to provide the user with the following information: names of the files that have been merged timestamp of first and last messages read from each file timestamp of the first and last messages written from the second file time difference between files mapping of the input data sources to logical output data sources.
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3.5 Support
- Denmark ANRITSU A/S, Kirkebjerg All 90 DK-2605 Brndby, Denmark Helpdesk tel: +45 70 15 22 55, Helpdesk fax: +45 72 11 25 50, Email: support.emea@anritsu.com
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ANRITSU CORPORATION
5-1-1 Onna, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa, 243-8555 Japan Tel: +81-46-223-1111 Fax: +81-46-296-1264
- Finland ANRITSU AB
Teknobulevardi 3-5, FI-01530 Vantaa, Finland Tel: +358 20 741 8100 Fax: +358 20 741 8111 Email: nordic.support@anritsu.com
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