User`s guide

14-2 Using EtherCraft
Software Release 2.30 YesWare Applications User’s Guide 08-01016-01
EtherCraft feature description
EtherCraft is a diagnostics and performance monitoring tool for monitoring
EtherLoop modem status and performance. EtherCraft can examine all
modems or selected modems that have been provisioned using Port Manager.
EtherCraft can only be used after EtherLoop modem database has been
provisioned.
Using EtherCraft
The first step in using EtherCraft is to select the modem(s) to monitor.
EtherCraft provides the following modem selection capabilities:
• Time delay entry, to specify the time delay to refresh data a specified
number of seconds.
• Monitoring of all EtherLoop modems
• Monitoring selected modems using choices from lists of Client and Server
modems
• Specification of the delay time between modem queries
Once you have selected the modem(s), you can choose to perform a variety of
modem monitoring activities including:
• Check modem speeds
• Display comprehensive tables showing modem performance including
modems speeds, training counts, retraining, Ethernet metrics, and HDLC
metrics
• View modem firmware version information
• Clear or get modem logs
• Display lists of currently active modems
• Reset modems
The sections that follow describe the information available using the
EtherCraft utility and each of the functions listed above.
EtherLoop modem speeds and training counts
EtherCraft presents EtherLoop modem speedsusing tables that contain codes
representing 24 possible modem speed levels (0-23). Modem training counts
are calculated at each speed and the results of the training counts are shown
using a code (see Table 14-2 on page 14-5). For example, if a modem is trained
at a speed of 2857 Kbps (Speed Code 17) and the speed is found to be
acceptable, a training Code of 10 is displayed to indicate the results of the
training.
Note: With this release, only speeds 0-19 are available.
EtherCraft terminology - Server=CO/SE, Client=CPE/CE
EtherCraft terms EtherLoop CO/SE modems as "server" modems and CPE/CE
modems as "client" modems.