Test Box Home

This is the alpha test version of the Test Box user interface. We are still trying out new things and are very open for suggestions and bug reports. Please let us know what you think.

The test box is intended to be operated as a black box by the Test Traffic Operations Center at the RIPE NCC. It is not necessary to use or monitor this user interface. However some users have expressed interest to know more about the status of their box and we try to provide it here.

During the GPS antenna set-up it can be extremely useful to use the status data provided here.

Please send comments and suggestions to ttm@ripe.net.

Documentation provides access to user documentation of the test-box. This area should have all the information you need to operate the test-box and this user interface. The TTM web site will have additional documentation about the measurements, their results and how to interpret them. At this time there is not much here yet. Documentation is being adapted to the new “group C” test-boxes and to this HTML format.

Status provides access to real-time status information about the test-box. Most importantly it provides graphs about GPS reception conditions both during the initial installation and during normal operation. GPS reception is the most frequent source of measurement problems. In addition you can find graphs of vital operating statistics of the test-box here such as CPU and memory usage.

Configuration gives information about the configuration parameters of the test-box and provides an interface to change these. Currently this is the network and contact information which we asked you to provide before he initial installation. In the future this will also provide access to those measurement parameters which are user definable.

Measurements will provide real-time access to measurement results collected by this test-box. Note that his is not intended to replace the comprehensive presentation of measurement results provided at the central TTM web-site. The results available on a single test-box will always be only a small subset of all results. It can encompass only raw values of traffic received by the test-box in question. The central site can combine measurements from all boxes and produce derivative products from them.

TTM Website provides a link to the central TTM website with all results.