BRIXWORX SYSTEM RELEASE NOTES

RELEASE 8.6

BrixWorx Release 8.6

Release Notes Version 3.0.0
November 2014

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Release Notes Version: 3.0.0

BrixWorx Version: Release 8.6
Release Date: November 2014

CONTENTS

Chapter 1
Introduction to BrixWorx Release Notes ..........................1
Chapter 2
Installation and Configuration Notes ....................................3
BrixWorx Installation and Configuration ...........................................................4

Chapter 3
New Features ...............................................................................................5
Feature Requests ..................................................................................................6
Feature Descriptions .............................................................................................7
BrixWorx Features ..............................................................................................7
Test Features ......................................................................................................8
Brix Mobile Agent Features .............................................................................10

Updated Documentation .................................................................................... 11

iv BrixWorx System Release Notes

Chapter 4
Known Issues in BrixWorx Release 8.6 ..........................13
BrixWorx .................................................................................................................13
BrixTest ...................................................................................................................14
Brix CLI ...................................................................................................................15

HAPTER

INTRODUCTION TO BRIXWORX
RELEASE NOTES
This document describes the new features and enhancements associated
with the 8.6 release. It also contains installation and configuration notes
and known issues.
How to use this
document

EXFO recommends that you read these release notes and keep a copy with
your system documentation.

In this document

This document contains the following sections:

Section

Page

Installation and Configuration Notes

New Features

Known Issues in BrixWorx Release 8.6

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INSTALLATION AND
CONFIGURATION NOTES
This chapter describes installation and upgrade information for BrixWorx
Release 8.6.
In this chapter

This chapter contains the following sections:

Section

BrixWorx Installation and Configuration

Page

BrixWorx System Release Notes

Chapter 2, Installation and Configuration Notes

BrixWorx Installation and Configuration

This section provides BrixWorx installation and configuration notes.
Platform support
updates

The following updates are provided in the installation guides:

Continue support for Cisco IOS Release versions from 12.4 to 15.1.
Continue support for Oracle Standard Edition 10.2.0.5.
Oracle Enterprise Edition 11gR1 (11.1.0.6-7), 11gR2 (11.2.0.1-4), or
12c (12.1).
We support 64-bit Red Hat Oracle Enterprise Linux ES or CentOS
Release 5.10 and 6.4.
We support 64-bit CentOS Release 5.9 and 6.3.
We support the following browser versions for BrixWorx:
Internet Explorer version 9.0, 10.0, and 11.0
Note: Internet Explorer version 8 is no longer supported.

Mozilla FireFox 17.0esr to 28.0

For more information. Refer to the following documentation to learn
more about the platform support updates:

Increasing Oracle
Processes

BrixWorx Installation guide

BrixWorx Embedded Oracle Installation guide

When creating a new database. If a user creates a database in release 8.0

(for example) we do not increase the processes value to 8.6 levels when
upgrading to 8.6. If users experience connection errors they can contact
support to increase the init.ora processes value to that in the corresponding
file in the $BXROOT/oracle/CreateDB/pfile.

HAPTER

NEW FEATURES
This chapter lists the feature requests and describes the new features and
enhancements associated with BrixWorx Release 8.6.
In this chapter

This chapter contains the following sections:

Section

Page

Feature Requests

Feature Descriptions

Updated Documentation

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BrixWorx Release Notes

Chapter 3, New Features

Feature Requests
BrixWorx Release 8.6 provides solutions to the following feature requests
(FR):
Feature Request Number

Description

FR 2173

Platform Support for 8.6 release

FR 2349

SNMP Polling and Provisioning

FR 2350

Regionalization Phase 2

FR 2082

SNMP Poller Raisecom certification

FR 2127

Integrate MRV OS-906G and OS-940 NIDs

into BrixWorx

FR 1276

SLM/SLR test for one way frame loss

FR 1843

Continuous TWAMP (Finish)

FR 2076

EtherSAM Random Frame Size

FR 2077

BrixNGN: Turn up Improvements

EtherSAM EMIX

FR 2381

BrixNGN: Layer2/Layer3 frame in turn-up

tests.

FR 2349

SNMP (Document the MRV and Raisecom

Managed Object tests)

FR 2113

BrixNGN: Turnup test with TWAMP

encapsulation.

FR 2030

POLQA Support

FR 2471

VoLTE Active Test POLQA Support

The following sections describe the new features and enhancements in

detail.

Chapter 3, New Features

Feature Descriptions

Feature Descriptions
This section describes the new features and enhancements that are part of
BrixWorx Release 8.6.
In this section

This section includes the following topics:

Topic

Page

BrixWorx Features

Test Features

Brix Mobile Agent Features

10

BrixWorx Features
This section describes BrixWorx features available in Release 8.6:
Platform support for
8.6 release- FR 2273

It includes the following BrixWorx updates:

See, Platform support updates on page 4 to learn more about the

platforms supported for the 8.6 release.
BrixWorx Installation - Updating the existing Embedded Oracle and
Non-embedded Oracle BrixWorx Installation procedures.

For more information. Refer to the BrixWorx Installation Guide and

Embedded Oracle Installation Guide.
SNMP Polling
Provisioning and
import- FR 2349

It includes general description about MRV and Raisecom devices.

Regionalization
Phase 2- FR 2350

It includes description about the group filter applied to SLA, Services,

Verifiers, and Users list.

For more information. Refer to the BrixWorx User Guide.

For more information. Refer to the BrixWorx User Guide.

SNMP Poller Raisecom
certification- FR
2082

It includes description about integrating Raisecom devices into BrixWorx.

Raisecom devices are discovered and polled by the extensible SNMP
poller like other certified devices.

MRV OS-906G and

OS-940 NIDs- FR
2127

It includes instructions for integrating MRV NIDs into BrixWorx. MRV

devices are discovered and polled by the extensible SNMP Poller like
other certified devices.

For more information. Refer to the BrixWorx User Guide.

For more information. Refer to the BrixWorx User Guide.

BrixWorx Release Notes

Chapter 3, New Features

Brix Utilities

It includes the following new Brix utilities:

bxdbinstantiate.sh
bxdbreplicate.sh
bxdbsnapshot.sh
protect_mviews.sql

For more information. Refer to the Brix Reference Guide.

Test Features
This section describes the Test features available in Release 8.6:
SLM/SLR test for
one way frame
Loss- FR 1276

Synthetic Loss Measurement and Synthetic Loss Reply support for the
existing Y.1731 tests.

Continuous TWAMP
- FR 1843

It includes support for continuous mode in the TWAMP Sender test.

EtherSAM Random
Frame Size- FR
2076

The EtherSAM Random frame size generation feature enables random

frame size generation during the EtherSAM Service Configuration and
Service Performance tests.

For more information. Refer to the BrixTest Suite Reference Guide.

For more information. Refer to the BrixTest Suite Reference Guide.

For more information. Refer to the BrixTest Suite Reference Guide.

Turn up
Improvements
EtherSAM EMIX FR 2077

Support for EtherSAM EMIX, which enables testing of multiple userdefined frame size for EtherSAM Turn-Up tests.

Layer2/Layer3
frame in turn-up
tests - FR 2381

The purpose of this feature is to add a pure L3 mode for EtherSAM test,
enabling the generation of test traffic at 64 bytes and without any UDP
header.

For more information. Refer to the BrixTest Suite Reference Guide.

For more information. Refer to the BrixTest Suite Reference Guide.

SNMP- FR 2349

Includes the following MRV and Raisecom tests:

CPU Utilization Test.

Memory Test
Interface Test
MRVNIDFlow Test
MRVNIDOAM Test
RaisecomFlow Test
RaisecomOAM Test
Storage Test

Chapter 3, New Features

Test Features

For more information. Refer to the BrixTest Suite Reference Guide.

Turnup test with
TWAMP
encapsulation -FR
2113

The TurnUp tests must be able to perform turn-up testing using TWAMP
encapsulation.
When TWAMP encapsulation is selected on the EtherSAM or RFC2544
Turn Up tests:
a Using Custom Source MAC selection on the Services UI page is

not allowed.

b Even if 'Loop-up Remote Device' is selected in the General

Configuration tab, loop-up is not supported for either TWAMP or

OAM. Loop-up messages will be prevented for TWAMP and OAM
encapsulation modes by the test plug-in.
c Even if 'Allow non-unicast source MAC address' or 'Allow nonunicast destination MAC address' are selected in the General
Configuration tab, non-unicast source and destination MAC
addresses are not allowed for TWAMP.
d All service(s) in a test instance running TWAMP must share a
common UDP destination port. The FPGA will use this port to
detect TWAMP traffic. The corollary to this is that all Layer 4 (nonTWAMP) UDP service(s) on the same interface (across all test
instances) may not reuse this UDP port. Neither the UI nor the test
plug-in enforce this rule. The UI can check that TWAMP and
Layer4 UDP destination ports do not collide on the same test
instance, and generate an error when they do. However, there is no
check across all test instances for collisions.
e There are 16 possibilities for TWAMP UDP destination port, one
for each test instance. The TWAMP UDP destination ports can be
duplicated across TWAMP streams on different test instances
without any issue. All TWAMP streams across all test instances can
use the same UDP destination port.
For more information. Refer to the BrixTest Suite Reference Guide.
POLQA Support FR 2030

Include POLQA support to the following Brix Active tests:

SIP Service Active Test

SIP Network Active Test
RTP Network Active Test

For more information. Refer to the BrixCall Advanced VoIP Reference

Guide.
VoLTE Active Test
POLQA Support FR 2471

Include POLQA support for the VoLTE Service Active Test.

For more information. Refer to the BrixCall Advanced VoIP Reference
Guide.

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Chapter 3, New Features

Brix Mobile Agent Features

This section describes the Brix Mobile Agent updates for Release 8.6:
It includes Android OS and device support for the Brix Mobile agent
application.
Brix Mobile Agent has been validated on Android Operating System
KitKat version 4.4 using new devices such as Google Nexus 5.
POLQA Support FR 2030

Include POLQA support to the following Brix Active tests:

SIP Service Active Test
For more information. Refer to the Brix Mobile Agent User Guide.

Chapter 3, New Features

Updated Documentation

Updated Documentation
This section lists the EXFO Service Assurance documentation that is
updated since the last release of BrixWorx.
Updated
documentation

The following books are updated for the Release 8.6:

BrixWorx Installation Guide

BrixWorx Embedded Oracle Installation Guide
BrixWorx User Guide
Brix Test Suite Reference Guide
Brix Reference Guide
BrixCall Advanced VoIP Reference Guide
Brix Mobile Agent User Guide
BV-1 Quick Start Guide
BrixWorx for TurnUP Getting Started Guide

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KNOWN ISSUES IN BRIXWORX

RELEASE 8.6
This chapter describes known issues in BrixWorx Release 8.6.
In this chapter

This chapter contains the following section:

Section

Page

BrixWorx

13

BrixTest

14

Brix CLI

15

BrixWorx
The following known issue is reported for BrixWorx:

SA-32954 In the Additional Services section of the Verifier

Information page, when we select the Load radio button in the
TWAMP Responder section, and select the Mode as Light, a UDP Port
Range needs to be configured.
Workaround The TWAMP Responder section needs to be
completely removed from the Additional Services section as the UDP
port range are already configured while creating the SLA.
The SNMP Poller Engine, which is part of the NID Manager, has been
updated in 8.6 to fix certain issues, but has not yet been tested. As a
result, the SNMP Poller Engine must not be used in the GA release, but
wait for the SP1 release.

14 BrixWorx System Release Notes

Chapter 4, Known Issues in BrixWorx Release 8.6

BrixTest
The following known issues are reported for BrixTest:

SA-32174 When Use default option is selected in the Use Any Source
Interface parameter of the HTTP Active test and HTTPS Active test, it
does not work.
Workaround On the Verifier Information page, in the Test Interface
option, the value for Use Any Source Interface parameter in the IPv4
Settings section must be similar to the value for the Use Any Source
Interface parameter in the IPv6 Settings section. The values must not
be set to Use default.
SA-32830 Ethernet Reflector on BV3100 Verifier does not work
with Turn Ups OAM frames. The turn up OAM frames get filtered by
FPGA and do not pass to IP stack.
SA-32209 When configuring a TCP Throughput Client or Server
test, an IP address must be supplied as source IP address. In order to
configure this IP address, the user must do the following:
a Enable Advanced mode
b Select an Interface Category and
c Copy the IP address of interface category in the Source IP address
field.
SA- 33664 In the TCP Throughput Client Turn Up tests, the packets
generated by the server do not get marked with the server's configured
DSCP value.
Workaround The DSCP value must be provided.
SA-33666 In the TCP Throughput Server Turn Up tests, if the default
Listening IP Address is set to 0.0.0.0 and this IP address is later on
changed to a specific IP address, the server still responds to any IP
address.
SA-33684 The PDF version of the test results of the EtherSAM Turn
Up Test and RFC2544 Turn Up test are not readable.
SA-33656 The TCP Throughput client reports a smaller number of
sent frames than it actually transmitted. At the end of a TCP session,
the TCP Client Throughput Test plug-in performs a final read of test
statistics. This final read is occurring immediately before the TCP
session is closed. Reading stats before the end of the session causes the
TCP Client Transmitted Frames and Retransmitted Frames counters to
understate the actual counts and causes the TCP Client Transmitted
frames and TCP Server Segments Received counters to be out of
agreement. There is no workaround for this issue.
FR 1843:

Chapter 4, Known Issues in BrixWorx Release 8.6

Brix CLI

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SA-33189 In the TWAMP test, the Maximum Network Outage

frame Count can report an extra frame if the outage interval
happens to be at the end of the run - reporting interval.
SA-33305 In the TWAMP test, the reported number of out of
order packets from the reflector to sender can be incorrect when
packets are reordered between the TWAMP sender and reflector.

Brix CLI
The following known issues are reported for Brix CLI:

SA-33182 The ntpstat CLI does not work for BV3100. The
console, telnet or ssh session is lost when the command is executed.
Workaround Use the ntpq -crv command to read the NTP system
variables refid, rootdispersion and poll, which correspond to ntpstat's
NTP synchronization state, accuracy and poll interval (2^poll)
respectively.