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Spectrum thumbnails with details in Visio

Solved1.58K views8th September 2021sepctrum thumbnail Visio
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Stefan Schedletzky10 1st September 2021 0 Comments

Hello,

is it possible to get the following parameters displayed in a Visio drawing?

Also if it's possible to access the description of the preset to show it on a Visio drawing?
Right now I'm displaying only the spectrum thumbnail, marker center and c/n.

Best regards,
Stefan

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Masschelein Karl [SLC]180 Posted 8th September 2021 3 Comments

Hello Stefan,

To get to spectrum general parameter values within the scope of a monitor, you can use spectrum script variables.

  1. In the spectrum script, add script variables :
  2. In the spectrum monitor, add parameters based on the spectrum script variables and check the option 'Displayed on element card' :
  3. In the spectrum element card, an extra page is shown to reflect the monitor parameters
  4. In the spectrum element visio, a parametercontrol visioshape can be used to visualize the monitor parameter values. Note that a parameter shape will not show the monitor parameter value since this shows a spectrum thumbnail by design.
Masschelein Karl [SLC] Posted new comment 8th September 2021
Stefan Schedletzky commented 8th September 2021

Yes this is working, great! But I can only see rbw and vbw. The values for attenuator and sweep time are empty. Any idea?

Stefan Schedletzky commented 8th September 2021

When I’m executing the script I get the following error: Unkown preset value type: ‘actualsweep’.

Masschelein Karl [SLC] commented 8th September 2021

Does your spectrum analyzer driver specify param SPA_PARAM_AUTO_SWEEP (ID 64021) with a valid value ?
In case the SPA_PARAM_SWEEPTIME (ID 64015) is set to Auto (value ‘-1’), the SPA_PARAM_AUTO_SWEEP would hold the real sweeptime value.

Likewise for input attenuation : SPA_PARAM_INPUT_ATTEN (ID 64009) = -1 => real value in SPA_PARAM_AUTO_ATTEN (ID 64022)

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Stefan Schedletzky10 Posted 1st September 2021 4 Comments

I'm sorry but I can't get it working but maybe it's because I'm using a "Monitor".
Are these values also available for a "Spectrum Monitor"?

Stefan Schedletzky Posted new comment 1st September 2021
Michiel Vanthuyne [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented 1st September 2021

Hi Stefan, can you please provide more details on what you’ve tried but isn’t working, e.g. which shape data you’ve used, etc.

Stefan Schedletzky commented 1st September 2021

Hi Michiel, I have tried really a lot of possibilities. For example I would like to have parameter 64224. I tried it just with parameter and element and also parametercontrol and element together. First question would be if I need to use the element ID of the spectrum analyzer or the service ID of the monitor. Overall I have a spectrum thumbnail working with two paramtercontrols

Ben Vandenberghe [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented 1st September 2021

Hi Stefan – I completely missed the point that you were asking this question in the context of a specific Spectrum Monitor, my answer was about showing the current value of those general metrics (like RBW and all that). In the context of a Spectrum Monitor this is clearly not going to work (i.e. the settings of the analyzer to capture a trace for a Spectrum Monitor are defined typically by a preset that is loaded at the time a measurement is taken, but alternatively this could also be defined in the script itself). So, unless I’m overlooking a feature but I don’t think so, you will not be able to do that (i.e. show the settings in MS Visio that were used for that specific monitor). Maybe you would be able to devise some sort of a work-around (I can imagine that you could write those values during the execution of the Spectrum Monitor into a data table in a dummy element, and then grab them from there to display those in your Visual Overview graphics – but I’m not sure if you want to take it that far in terms of effort to make this happen).

Stefan Schedletzky commented 1st September 2021

Hi Ben, thanks for all your help. It would be a small and nice benefit to view those settings. But if we need a workaround we will not proceed with it. Have a nice evening!

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Toon Casteele [SLC] [DevOps Enabler]6.97K Posted 1st September 2021 0 Comments

You can also embed a full spectrum component in your Visual Overview. You can check the help for this.

Toon Casteele [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Answered question 1st September 2021
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Michiel Vanthuyne [SLC] [DevOps Enabler]4.10K Posted 1st September 2021 0 Comments

Hi Stefan, instead of the thumbnail, you can embed a complete spectrum component, see https://help.dataminer.services/dataminer/#t=DataMinerUserGuide%2Fpart_2%2Fvisio%2FEmbedding_a_Spectrum_Analysis_component.htm

Keep in mind that this is slightly different from the thumbnail, as a thumbnail will display the last known state from a monitor.

Michiel Vanthuyne [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Edited answer 1st September 2021
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Ben Vandenberghe [SLC] [DevOps Enabler]9.06K Posted 1st September 2021 0 Comments

If I'm not mistaken these should be available in the same fashion as any other metric on a any managed object in DataMiner, and can be linked to Visual Overview graphics as such.  The only special thing about these is that these parameters are referenced by standard IDs (so that they can be identified easily by DataMiner across different spectrum analyzer products from different vendors).  These are those standard reference IDs used for spectrum analyzers, and you should be able to use those in your Visual Overview the same way you do for other metrics.  DataMiner Development Library

Ben Vandenberghe [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Answered question 1st September 2021
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