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The External Data Feed (EDF) allows external data to be sent to and processed by Traverse as though it had been collected by Traverse itself. Any external tool can send results and events for any existing test, and the result/event will be processed as if a Traverse monitor had polled the result.
The EDF process is accessed via a text based protocol over a TCP socket. Protocol messages can be sent from programs written in C, Java, Perl or any other language.
Typically, you should provision the test with a type of 'external' (using the Web interface or the BVE Server) before inserting test results via the EDF server, but you can also use this process to enter data for any existing test using the test's serial number.
It is recommended that the Traverse Perl API be used to access the EDF instead of a direct telnet connection for consistency.