A10.2 - Network Management of Flight Test Installation equipment
- Event
- ETTC 2024 - European Test and Telemetry Conference
2024-06-11 - 2024-06-13
Nuremberg - Chapter
- Networks & Data Acquisition
- Author(s)
- J. A. Pablos Palomino - Airbus Defence & Space, Seville (Spain)
- Pages
- 145 - 154
- DOI
- 10.5162/ETTC2024/A10.2
- ISBN
- 978-3-910600-02-7
- Price
- free
Abstract
Monitoring the status of flight test instrumentation components and networks has been a key element to ensure flight test operations. Originally the monitoring was implemented using the remote acquisition units data format (IENA, Inet-x, ..) but new flight test devices adopted SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) to provide network management of ethernet equipment. As a natural evolution acquisition units have improved SNMP capabilities to be managed as standard ethernet devices. Adoption of SNMP provides new functionalities such as control, authentication functions and standardization of objects to be monitored but it requires update of flight test software tools and support of hybrid architectures. This paper describes the evolution of monitoring capabilities of flight test instrumentation equipment and different options for management of SNMP devices in flight test. Future needs for monitoring and control of FTI equipment and SNMP contribution are also analyzed.