C O N T E N T S Contents Contents.............................i Preface............................1 The Concept Behind the OPERA™ Control Center............2 Setting up the OPERA™ Control Center................3 Verifying the Test Setup....................3 Defining the Resources – the Phone Book..............3 Defining the Testcalls – the Commands Table............5 Using Microsoft Access to edit the Database............6 Starting and Stopping the Measurement................7 The Result View........................8...
P R E F A C E 1 Preface This document is meant as a completion to the user manual of the OPERA™ measurement system. It describes the OPERA™ Control Center Server Software (OPR-003-CTR-X, OPR-010-CTR-X). Before you start reading this documentation, you should already be familiar with the OPERA™...
OptiCall™ running on the OPERA™ system where the interfaces are installed, the reason is probably due to the network setup. Please consult your local network administrator or OPTICOM in this case. Especially if you are using a firewall between two OPERA™ systems, some special network settings may be required.
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S E T T I N G T H E O P E R A ™ C O N T R O L C E N T E R with editing the table click on the "Close" button to close the window. The underlying database is then updated accordingly.
S E T T I N G T H E O P E R A ™ C O N T R O L C E N T E R Column Title Description Enable Check the box in order to activate the command. Inactive commands will not be executed during the measurement.
S T A R T I N G A N D S T O P P I N G T H E M E A S U R E M E N T 4 Starting and Stopping the Measurement When you have successfully setup your databases, you start the measurement by clicking on the toolbar button .
T H E R E S U L T V I E W 5 The Result View The result view is the table which is drawn in the main dialog window of the OPERA™ Control Center (see Figure 4.1). It presents the contents of the result file which was created during the measurement.
T H E R E S U L T V I E W Figure 5.1: The main dialog window with the first two columns in freezed mode. Selecting the Columns to Display Maybe the result view of the Control Center will provide you with more information as you actually require.
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T H E R E S U L T V I E W Limit Filters will filter out all results where one or several parameters are exceeding a user definable limit. Connection filters will allow you to filter the results depending on which resources have been involved to originate and terminate the call.
T H E R E S U L T V I E W Alerts When measuring a system under test with the Control Center, you may notify a person in case of a specific problem. Therefore you select the menu option .
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T H E R E S U L T V I E W your system, e.g. if you have not purchased PESQ, the PESQ result values will not be available in the result view, as a consequence. Most measured parameters correspond to values determined by OPERA™. Please refer to the OPERA™...
T H E R E S U L T V I E W LevRefBackdBov Level in dBov of the background noise parts of the reference signal LevDegTotdBov Level in dBov averaged over the total of the degraded signal LevDegSpdBov Level in dBov of the speech parts of the degraded signal LevDegBackdBov Level in dBov of the background noise parts of the degraded signal PesqAttenuation...
T H E R E S U L T V I E W Figure 5.6: The Options dialog window for archiving result files. 5.10 Viewing Statistics In order to view some statistics of certain result values shown in the result view, first select a result value by clicking somewhere into the corresponding column.
T H E R E S U L T V I E W . When you click the Reset Selection button, the edit Select value range boxes will be set back to their default settings. As explained above, the selected value range will only take effect after you click on the Refresh button.
S U M M A R Y T H E M E N U A N D T O O L B A R O P T I O N S 6 Summary of the Menu and Toolbar Options An overview of all the menu option of the Control Center is listed in Table 6.1.
O T H E R I S S U E S T H E C O N T R O L C E N T E R 7 Time Synchronization of Distributed OPERA™ Systems Description Users that have purchased a OPERA™ Control Center license (OPR-003- CTR-X or OPR-010-CTR-X) will receive a program called Time Synchronization (TS).
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O T H E R I S S U E S T H E C O N T R O L C E N T E R slider is put to its left-most position the synchronization will be turned off. The arrow keys of the keyboard can also be used to set the time interval.
OPERA™ are available in the OPERA™ Control Center, too. Modifying the settings used by the Control Center however requires modifications of the Windows registry. Please contact OPTICOM if you have some specific needs. A Note to Users of Versions older than V3.5 In all databases the field names have changed and also the result table uses different field names now.