Generation of Test Tools to Exercise Benchmark and
Troubleshoot Network Equipment for Realtime CLCS



Research: Katrina Godwin
Mentor: John Porter KSC for CLCS Lead Network Systems, Kennedy Space Center
The Checkout and Launch Control System (CLCS) mission is to replace the current Launch Procession System(LPS) with standards - based, Commercial Off-the-Shelf(COTS) system and custom software. It will utilize multi-vendor platforms tied together with standard Local Area Network(LAN) technology. A program mandate is to replace the existing LPS without causing changes to existing flight hardware or software and with no impact to the flight manifest. Ultimately, these tools will mature into a deliverable suite of tools to be used by the Operations Engineers in their day-to-day activities, as well as generating data to be used in the vendor selection of various network components. The tools were generated in the "C" programming language within the Unix enviroment and utilized, at a minimum, the User Datagram Protocol(UDP) and the Internet Protocol(IP) via the use of Unix scokets.
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