To Monitor PPS Statistics

Qualifying, Fine-Tuning and Troubleshooting Time Synchronization
Platform
Napatech SmartNIC
Content Type
Application Note
Capture Software Version
N-ANL11
N-ANL10
N-ANL9
Link™ Capture Software 12.11
Link™ Capture Software 12.10
Link™ Capture Software 12.9
Link™ Capture Software 12.8
Link™ Capture Software 12.7
Link™ Capture Software 12.6
Link™ Capture Software 12.5
Link™ Capture Software 12.4
Link™ Capture Software 12.3
Link™ Capture Software 12.2
Link™ Capture Software 12.1
Link™ Capture Software 12.0
Link™ Capture Software 11.9
Link™ Capture Software 11.8
Link™ Capture Software 11.7
Link™ Capture Software 11.6
Link™ Capture Software 11.5
Link™ Capture Software 11.4
Link™ Capture Software 11.3
Link™ Capture Software 11.2

About this task

The tools are usually installed in /opt/napatech3/bin/ on Linux, and in C:\Program Files\Napatech3\bin\ on Windows. In this example, the syntax for Linux is used.

Procedure

  1. Open a console.
  2. On the command line, enter /opt/napatech3/bin/monitoring.

    The default mode, Port Statistics, is displayed.

  3. Press X to select time synchronization monitoring.
    Monitoring screen, showing time sync overview
  4. Press 2 to display PPS Statistics.
    Monitoring screen, showing time sync PPS statistics
  5. When you change the source of the PPS signal connected to the external time synchronization connector on SmartNIC #0, press 0 and then 2 to restart sampling.