Landslide emulates Access Gateways (AGW) and provides a configuration to test the SUT. The PCRF Nodal and PDF Nodal test cases emulate Access Gateways (AGW) to test PCRF and PDF respectively.
You can emulate multiple nodes with the Number of Nodes setting1.
In PCRF Node test case, when you select Secondary PCRF Node on the Emulator Configuration tab, the Secondary AGW I/F Node becomes available to support failover. The Node count is kept in sync with the Primary AGW I/F Node.
In DRA Nodal test case, the Gx/S9 interface allows testing of the PCRF (AGW SUT) and the emulated AGW Node/AGW S9 Node.
In PGW Node test case, AGW Node provides configuration for PCEF to test PCRF over Gx Interface.
Define the following:
Multi-Homed: Select to indicate that SCTP endpoint is multi-homed, where more than one destination transport address is used to reach the endpoint.
Tcl Parameter: AgwNodeMultHomedEn
Select to enable SCTP multi-homed 2x2 Mesh capabilities. One SCTP association has 2 multi-homed endpoints (EP1 and EP2), and each of them has 2 IP addresses, one primary address (Pri) and one Secondary address (Sec). Without enabling this parameter the communication paths are: EP1 Pri <==> EP2 Pri, EP1 Sec <==> EP2 Sec (total of 2 paths). After enabling this parameter the communication paths are: EP1 Pri <==> EP2 Pri, EP1 Pri <==> EP2 Sec,, EP1 Sec <===> EP2 Pri. and EP1 Sec <===> EP2 Sec. (total of 4 paths).
Tcl Parameter: AgwNodeSctpMeshEn
Host: Depending on whether the node emulates originating or destination point, Host identifies the endpoint that originated the Diameter message or the Diameter Identity of the destination host.
Realm: Depending on whether the node emulates originating or destination point, Realm identifies the realm of the originator of any Diameter message or the realm the message is to be routed to.
With an Ethernet User Node, you can define:
The IP address and routing options... The IP Address will increment for each node.
The MAC Address to override the Hardware MAC address so the packets sent out of the interface will use the provisioned MAC address rather the Hardware MAC Address.
Custom port selection... and error injection with the Advanced... button.
Select default routing that were configured for the test server.
Select the Next Hop IP Address instead of using the test server's default route.
The Outbound Traffic Port to disable the normal routing function and to force packets out of the selected interface.
1 Maximum rates, number of sessions, and number of emulated nodes vary depending on the test configuration and the test system's licensed capacity.