CHEETAS for Beginners

Thursday October 24th

Douglas Audirsch, KBR, CHEETAS User Support

Course Description
The Cloud Hybrid Edge-to-Enterprise Evaluation & Test Analysis Suite (CHEETAS) framework provides a common tool suite for building evaluation infrastructure for disparate acquisition portfolios. CHEETAS is provided to the test community at no cost by the Test Resource Management Center. CHEETAS is vendor and hardware agnostic and can run on anything from a laptop, to a full GPU-enabled hyper-converged cluster, to a commercial cloud environment.

CHEETAS can natively ingest and process time series data in IRIG 106 Chapter 10, DarV3 and CSV format as well as ingest live streams such as from TENA. CHEETAS has features to query and playback data as well as APIs to interface with data analytic tools. This course will be helpful for people looking for a basic introduction to CHEETAS and it will cover the following topics:

  • Using the CHEETAS Dashboard / Entity Editor
  • Changing User Profile
  • Searching/Viewing Documentation
  • Checking User/Admin Status and Version Info
  • Updating Preferences
  • Importing, Viewing, & Editing ICDs
  • Ingesting / Processing Data
  • Creating/Editing Entity Types
  • Managing Entities
  • Using the Data Dictionary
  • Creating/Editing Parameter Sets
  • Running Quick-Look Jobs for an Entity
  • Creating/Executing Queries for Entities
  • Playing/Viewing Data and Video for an Entity
  • Installing/Updating UI Modules

About Doug
Doug Audirsch works for KBR as the Training Lead for the CHEETAS application on the Big Data and Knowledge Management team within the Test Resource Management Center (TRMC). Douglas has served as a training consultant within multiple industries, predominantly Technology and Energy, for 3 decades. He has also served on the boards of several educational non-profits and been an invited speaker at educational public speaking engagements. He calls Houston, Texas home where he lives with his beautiful wife and sometimes obedient children.