Gazelle User guides
The up-to-date Gazelle tools user guides are available at https://gazelle.ihe.net/gazelle-documentation/
This page gathers the tool links and the user manuals for each of the tools developed in the context of the Gazelle project. If you want to install your own instance of one of those tools, consult our Installation guide.
If you want to learn more about the Gazelle purposes and achitecture, read the Gazelle general information page.
Gazelle Test Bed
| Tool | Description | Documentation |
| Gazelle Master Model | GMM contains the technical framework concepts and is the test repository for the connectathons | installation | user guide |
| Test Management | TM is the application used to manage the connectathon process, from registration through pre-Connectathon & Connectathon testing, until the generation of the test report | installation | user guide |
| Assertion Manager | The Assertion Manager tool is used to stored the requirements on which the tests and tools are based. It also allows the linkage between tests, steps, validators and requirements. | installation | user guide |
Support tools
| Tool | Description | Documentation |
| Demographic Data Server | DDS generates fake (but consistent) patient demographics for a large set of countries, user and webservice interface available | installation | user guide |
| Product Registry | Vendors can reference their products and users can search for specific implementations | installation | user guide |
| Proxy | "Man in the middle": captures the messages exchanged between two systems and forwards them to the validation service front-end | installation | user guide |
| Gazelle Security Suite | Fusion of the PKI and TLS simulator, Gazelle Security Suite (GSS) gathers a set of tools dedicated to security aspect testing. | installation | user guide |
| STS | This is a WS-Trust Security Token Service (STS) | installation | user guide |
Validation services
Validation services are dedicated to the conformance testing process. They perform static validation of messages and documents produced in the context of IHE and other e-Health projects
| Tool | Description | Documentation |
| External Validation Service Front-end | The EVSClient is a front-end which allows the user to use the external validation services from a user-friendly interface instead of the raw web service offered by the Gazelle tools. | installation | user guide |
| Gazelle HL7 Validator | Offers web services to validate HL7v2.x and HL7v3 messages exchanged in the context of IHE | installation | user guide |
| Schematron-Based Validator | Offers a web service to validate XML documents against schematrons | installation | user guide |
| Gazelle Object Checker | Embedded in CDA Generator tool, it offers a web service to validate a large set of different kinds of CDA using a model-based architecture | installation | user guide |
| XDS Metadata Validator | Embedded in XD* Client simulator, it offers a web serivce to validate the metadata exchanged in the context of the XD* profiles | |
| XDW Validator | ||
| Audit Message Validator | Embedded in Gazelle Security Suite, it offers a web service to validate the ATNA messages produced in the context of IHE. | |
| Certificate Validator | Embedded in GSS, it offers a web service to validate the certificates produced in the context of the epSOS project | |
| HPD Validator | Embedded in HPDSimulator, it offers a web service to validate the messages exchanged in the context of the Healthcare Provider Directory profile | documentation |
| SVS validator | Embedded in SVSSimulator, it offers a web service to validate the messages exchanged in the context of the Sharing Value Set profile | documentation |
| WADO validator | ||
| XUA validator | Embedded in GSS, it offers a web service to validate SAML assertions for the profile XUA. |
Simulators
Simulators are tools which emulated an IHE actor in order to allow user to test their products against an implementation of the technical framework. There are not reference implementation. Read the short introduction to simulators.
| Tool | Description | Documentation |
| Patient Manager | Emulates the actors defined in the PAM, PDQ/PDQV3/PDQm, PIX/PIXV3/PIXm, XCPD profiles and the SWF/ADT actor | installation | user guide |
| Order Manager | Emulates the actors from the LAW and LTW profiles and some parts of the SWF/SWF.b profile. It can also be used for some transactions of the A-EYECARE profile. | installation | user guide |
| XD* Client | Emulates the initiating actors of the XD* profiles (XDS.b, XCPD, XDR, XCA, DSUB ...) | installation | user guide |
| HPD Simulator | Emulates the actors of the HPD profile | installation | user guide |
| SVS Simulator | Emulates the actors defined by the SVS profile. It is also used as a value set repository for the simulators | installation | user guide |
| LCSD Simulator | Emulates the actors defined by the LCSD profile of laboratory | installation | user guide |
| LBL Simulator | Emulates the actors defined by the LBL profile of laboratory | installation | user guide |
| HMW Simulator | Emulates the actors defined by the HMW profile of pharmacy | installation | user guide |
| SSL/TLS Simulator | Emulates clients or servers to establish secured connections. Embedded in Gazelle Security Suite (GSS). | installation | user guide |
| Gazelle Webservice Tester | Allows the execution of SoapUI scripts from a Graphical User Interface. | Installation | user guide |
| XCPD Responding Gateway | Emulates the XCPD Responding gateway actor (used only for epSOS) | installation | user guide |