User's Manual Part 1

Nomad User’s Manual Chapter 4 – Specifying Nomad Settings

4.1 Specifying General Settings

To specify general settings for Nomad on the General settings tab:

 Choose whether to Check for updates on application startup to determine whether a

newer version of Nomad is available (recommended).

 Choose whether to Check for new utilities on application startup to check for newer

versions of installed utilities and to find new utilities (recommended).

 Choose whether to Output local time when generating reports. If this option is left

unchecked, time will be listed in UTC in Nomad output reports.

 The Enable Remote Control via TCP socket 7072 option will be visible only to customers

who have purchased this optional command set for controlling Nomad remotely via any

Socket Client. This option should be selected in order to access Remote Control

functionality. Remote functionality includes:

o Time synchronization

o Specification of output file name and location

o Starting / stopping a recording session

o Displaying MOS results on a remote client

 The Require Hardware Identifiers option, when checked, will prevent launching a test if

the Hardware Identifier field on any enabled channel’s Device Info dialog is not filled in.

Please contact a Spirent representative if you are interested in learning more about Nomad Remote

Control.

Figure 4-2 - General Settings