Teledyne LeCroy SierraFC Verification Script Engine Reference Manual - Manual (Page 6)

Verification Script Engine Reference Manual
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1 Introduction
This document contains a description of the CATC’s Verification Script Engine (VSE), a new
utility in the SierraFC Protocol Suite software that allows users to perform custom analyses of Fibre
Channel (FC) traffic, recorded using the new generation of CATC’s Fibre Channel protocol analyzers.
VSE allows users to ask the SierraFC Protocol Suite application to send some desired “events”
(currently defined as frames and sequences ) from an FC trace to a verification script written using
CATC script language. This script then evaluates the sequence of events (timing, data or both) in
accordance with user-defined conditions and performs post-processing tasks such as exporting key
information to external text-based files or sending special Automation/COM notifications to user client
applications.
VSE is designed to allow users to easily retrieve information about any field in FC frame
headers or FCP SSCI sequences, and to make complex timing calculations between different events
in recorded trace. It also allows the filtering-in or filtering-out of data with dynamically changing
filtering conditions, the porting of information to a special output window, the saving of data to text
files, and the sending of data to COM clients connected to SierraFC Protocol Suite application.