—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-1 DAY 4 - Advanced Topics Import & Export Options Baseliner Filtering & Name Matching Clouds & Transit Networks Library Archive
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-2 Import Options
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-3 Import Options (continued) External Model ( *.C3e ) –User readable and modifiable model file in ASCII format –File format is published and can be created by any means available (e.g. database software, third party software, network management systems, etc.) –Both Merge and Intermodel Copy & Paste use the *.C3e file Network Topology –Network management system information giving the topology of an actual network –Importing topology information from network management files uses external model format (*.C3e) as an intermediate step Network Traffic –Combines multiple network traffic data files collected by different monitoring tools into a single Comnet model –Interrupted Poisson Process model
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-4 Import Options (continued) Event Trace –Historical or program generated trace of traffic where each traffic record is time tagged –Supports Message, Session, and Call based traffic –Not used anymore Bitmap –Windows bitmap format icon –Bitmap icons to represent nodes, links, sources, etc.
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-5 Export Options
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-6 Export Options (continued) ASCII Model File –Portable ASCII version of Model –Not intended for modification by user but rather to make models portable across all platforms External Model ( *.C3e ) –User readable and modifiable model file in ASCII format –This file can be imported or merged back into COMNET III Predictor Model ( *.C3e ) –Exports to a Predictor compatible file using the *.C3e format EPS Postscript & Raster Bitmap –Screen shots to a file in *.EPS or *.BMP format
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-7 Importing Network Topologies
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-8 Filtering Network Topologies
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-9 Manual Selection
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-10 Restore Discarded Segments
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-11 Filtering by Number of Nodes
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-12 Filtering by Segment Name Wildcard
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-13 Node Import Options
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-14 Group Nodes
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-15 Import Filtered Topology
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-16 Save Model
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-17 Group Nodes
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-18 Node Import Options (All Nodes)
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-19 Resize Layout
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-20 Adjust to Fit Screen
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-21 Toggle Names
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-22 Background Text
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-23 All Nodes
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-24 Node Import Options (Backbone)
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-25 Backbone Only
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-26 Node Import Options (Super Nodes)
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-27 Super Nodes
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-28 Importing Network Traffic
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-29 Adding External Traffic
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-30 Creating a User-defined Traffic Profile
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-31 Edit User-defined Traffic Profile
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-32 Copy Existing Traffic Profile for Modification
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-33 New Conversation Profile Name
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-34 Type of Conversation
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-35 Decode Upper Layer Protocol
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-36 Specify Columns in *.CSV File
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-37 Help on the Data Profile Tab
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-38 Data Profile Tab Help
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-39 Conversation Profile Time Stamps
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-40 Capture Duration
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-41 Time Stamp Columns in *.CSV File
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-42 Filter
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-43 Accept New Conversation Profile
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-44 Close List of Profiles
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-45 User-Defined Traffic Profile
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-46 Select Expert SNIFFER Profile to examine Name Maps
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-47 Select Segment for External Traffic File
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-48 Next Step
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-49 Add External Traffic File
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-50 Select Traffic File
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-51 Next Step
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-52 Adding a Name Map
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-53 Expanding the Model Segments
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-54 Expanding a Segment Tree
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-55 Specifying Matching Nodes
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-56 Specifying Matching Nodes (continued)
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-57 Automatching Node Names
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-58 Randomizing Node Names
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-59 Map Name
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-60 Selecting Name Maps
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-61 Next Step
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-62 Finish Importing External Traffic File
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-63 Remove External Traffic File Import
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-64 Multiple External Traffic Files
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-65 View Conversations
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-66 View Conversations (continued)
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-67 View Network Protocols
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-68 Network Conversations by Protocol
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-69 View Network Applications
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-70 Network Conversations by Application
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-71 Exit Conversation Matrix Viewer
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-72 Close Conversations
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-73 Finish External Traffic Import Parameters
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-74 Define Packet Flows
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-75 Deleting the Previous Packet Flow Matrix
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-76 Clouds
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-77 Frame Relay Cloud
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-78 Edit Properties of Cloud
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-79 Cloud Detail
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-80 Cloud Congestion
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-81 Optional Congestion Levels
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-82 Congestion Timing
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-83 Cloud Parameter Sets
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-84 Edit Cloud Parameter Set
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-85 Cloud Frame Detail
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-86 Virtual Circuits
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-87 VC Routing Behavior
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-88 Enter Cloud
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-89 Multiply Transit Cloud Along VCs
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-90 Assume a Direct Unconstrained VC
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-91 VC Routing Behavior (continued)
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-92 Frame Loss Probabilities
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-93 Frame Delays
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-94 Cloud Access Link
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-95 Cloud Virtual Circuit
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-96 Edit Virtual Circuit
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-97 Virtual Circuit Parameter Sets
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-98 Edit Virtual Circuit Parameter Set
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— 4-99 Virtual Circuit Policing
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Marking Discard Eligible Frames
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Virtual Circuit Delay
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Accept Cloud Virtual Circuit Parameter Set
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Close Virtual Circuit Parameter Sets
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Virtual Circuit Statistics
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Burst Size
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Accept Virtual Circuit Properties
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Select Cloud Reports
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Cloud Reports
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Select Cloud Snapshots
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Cloud Snapshots
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Animation of Cloud Snapshots
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Edit Access Link
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Access Link Parameter Sets
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Edit Access Link Parameter Set
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Access Link Parameters
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Exit Buffer Management
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Buffer Units
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Buffer Location
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Accept Access Link Parameters
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Close Access Link Parameter Sets
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Close Access Link Detail
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Transit Networks
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Transit Network Protocols
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Enter Subnetwork
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Edit Application Source
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Edit Global Commands
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Edit Setup Session Command
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Session Network Operation Parameters
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Session Packets Network Service Level
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Close Setup Session Command
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Edit Transit Network Port
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Edit Port Network Service Classes
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Add a Service Class
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Network Service Class Parameters
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Add a Connection Type to the Service Class
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Connection Type Parameters
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Edit Connection Destinations
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Add Destination(s) to List
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Exit Destinations for Connection Type
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Accept Destination List
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Edit Connection Type Transport Protocol
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Add a Transport Protocol
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Transit Network Protocol Parameters
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Protocol Traffic Policing
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Edit Frame Relay Traffic Parameters
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Frame Relay Traffic Parameters
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Edit ATM Traffic Parameters
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— ATM Traffic Parameters
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Close Protocol Parameters
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Close Transport Protocol List
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Connection PDU Parameters
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Segmentation Time
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Data Compression
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Accept Connection Type Parameters
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Accept Network Service Class Parameters
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Accept Network Service Classes
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Overlapping Service Levels Alert
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Edit Default Service Class
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Modify Range of Service Levels
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Close Service Class List
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Accept Port Specification
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Transit Network Protocols
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Editing Library Contents
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Confirmation
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Edit Processing Node Parameter Sets
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Copy Existing Parameter Set
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— New Processing Node Parameter Set
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Accept Processing Node Parameter Set
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Close Processing Node Parameter Set List
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Edit Node Objects
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Copy Existing Node Object
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— New Processing Node
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Select New Processing Node Parameter Set
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Processing Node Software Capabilities
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Accept New Node Object
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Close Node List
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Accept Modified Library
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Create User-defined Node
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— User-defined Node
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— User-defined Node Properties
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— ObjLibs Directory & Libs.dat File
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Edit Library Contents
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Accept Modified Library
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— ObjLibs Directory & Library Data Files
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— COMNET III References Averill Law and W. David Kelton, Simulation Modeling and Analysis, second edition, McGraw-Hil, Roy D. Rosner, Packet Switching Tommorrow’s Communications Today, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Mischa Schwartz, Telecommunication Networks Protocols, Modeling and Analysis, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Gilbert Held, Internetworking LANs and WANs, Concepts, Techniques and Methods, John Wiley & Sons, 1993 William Stallings, Data and Computer Communications, Macmillan Publishing Company, fourth edition, David E. McDysan and Darren L. Spohn, ATM Theory and Application, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1995.
—————————— CACI Products Company - ——————————————————— COMNET III —————————————— Internet ftp:\\ftp.caciasl.com