Part III - Operations and scenarios¶
Part III is the operational handbook. It describes daily operation and then walks through concrete scenarios step by step: what to set, why, what happens on the wire and what you should see. It closes with the safety rules for using a traffic generator in a production network and a troubleshooting guide.
| Chapter | You will be able to ... |
|---|---|
| 20. Running the platform day to day | perform daily/weekly checks, interpret alerts and keep the platform healthy |
| 21. Scenarios - monitoring lifecycle | bring up monitoring, baseline it, add VLANs and attachment points |
| 22. Scenarios - tests | run L2, L3, firewall, DSCP, throughput and stateful tests |
| 23. Scenarios - maintenance and incidents | measure convergence during maintenance and investigate alarms |
| 24. Safe use in a production network | assess the blast radius of a test and apply the guard rails |
| 25. Troubleshooting | diagnose problems of the TRex server, the TX switches, the paths and the data pipeline |