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Qosium Documentation is a comprehensive collection of articles that explain how to use Qosium products to perform network measurements. The documentation also contains information on general concepts of the topic, as well as tutorials, explanations, and references. With the help of this documentation, anybody with basic understanding of computer networks should be able to perform network measurements with Qosium.
1. Welcome to Qosium Documentation! #
This documentation serves as an entry point both for passive network quality measurements and mastering Qosium. If you’re not familiar with these topics, taking some time to read this documentation certainly pays back in the long run.
Due to the rapid development of Qosium, this documentation is continuously amended, corrected, edited, and revamped. We do our best to keep this documentation up to date to make using Qosium a smooth experience. However, should you notice deficiencies, feel free to report them to tukikaitotek.fi, and we shall redeem the situation.
2. Documentation Contents #
The documentation is divided into the following sections. The first four sections give important conceptual information on how to perform measurements with Qosium, as well as hands-on tutorials and practical examples.
- Qosium Overview - An introductory part to Qosium
- Get Started with Qosium - Easy and intuitive tutorials for understanding Qosium and how to use it
- How-to Guides - Step-by-step instructions for achieving specific goals
- Qosium Concepts - Explanations of some of the more complex things you’ll come across while using Qosium
Each Qosium application has its own documentation branch. Keep the corresponding documentation page close while working with a Qosium software for maximal efficiency.
Troubleshooting is created to help you overcome common stumbling blocks and to list the known issues and caveats for using Qosium. We recommend quickly browsing through this section to learn its contents, should it come in useful later.
Further Reading
Qosium is real-time and passive QoS and QoE measurement solution. This section goes into more details of what Qosium truly is and what you can achieve with it.
Tutorials are the best resource for getting the hang of network measurements with Qosium. These guides are designed for anyone with basic knowledge of computer networks to grasp the basic concepts and workflows of Qosium quickly.
These guides introduce features and functionalities of Qosium, and how to use them.
Some network measurement technology concepts are extensive and challenging to understand from a couple of lines of explanation. These articles delve deeper into the most common concepts that you may run across while using Qosium.
Qosium Probe is the heart of the Qosium family. It is the software that carries out the actual measurement as instructed by measurement controllers like Qosium Scope, Qosium Scopemon, or even your own developed upon the QMCP API provided by Kaitotek. Without control, Qosium Probe does nothing, and does not consume any processing resources either.
Qosium Scope is a real-time analyzer for managing Qosium measurements. You can use Scope to activate and control Qosium Probes over a network connection. The essential features of Scope are measurement parameterization, running measurements, results collection, and results visualization. Qosium Scope is an excellent tool for manual QoS and QoE measurements.
Qosium Scope Lite is one of the three measurement controller options of Qosium solution. Scope Lite is a command-line tool, which is the most notable difference from Qosium Scope. That makes it suitable also to environments where a graphical user interface is not available or is not wanted to be used due to processing constraints. Scope Lite is mainly a measurement controller for manual measurements, but it can also be used semi-automatically via scripts for monitoring.
Qosium Scopemon is the key to continuous and automated monitoring of critical applications and services. This sibling of Qosium Scope is designed for automatic monitoring instead of targeted measurements.
Qosium Storage is the results system of Qosium. It comprises a QMCP receiver, a dedicated database server, and a web user interface for visualization and accessing the results. Results can also be accessed by using REST API. Storage is handy when results data grows large, and data access is wanted to be centralized. It is a key component in monitoring setups.
Qosium Node is a ready-to-use measurement device build over an industry PC. Qosium measurement software and assisting tools are integrated, allowing Qosium Node to bring a measurement point where no software can be installed.
This section goes through some of the most typical special situations that the users can face when performing measurements with Qosium. Hints and solution proposals are given on how to proceed.