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diff --git a/docs/report/introduction/methodology_trex_traffic_generator.rst b/docs/report/introduction/methodology_trex_traffic_generator.rst
index 918a34f73d..aea4d3236d 100644
--- a/docs/report/introduction/methodology_trex_traffic_generator.rst
+++ b/docs/report/introduction/methodology_trex_traffic_generator.rst
@@ -4,28 +4,44 @@ TRex Traffic Generator
 Usage
 ~~~~~
 
-`TRex traffic generator <https://wiki.fd.io/view/TRex>`_ is used for all
-CSIT performance tests. TRex stateless mode is used to measure NDR and
-PDR throughputs using MLRsearch and to measure maximum transer rate
-in MRR tests.
+`TRex traffic generator <https://trex-tgn.cisco.com>`_ is used for majority of
+CSIT performance tests. TRex stateless mode is used to measure NDR and PDR
+throughputs using MLRsearch and to measure maximum transfer rate in MRR tests.
 
-TRex is installed and run on the TG compute node. The typical procedure
-is:
+TRex is installed and run on the TG compute node. The typical procedure is:
 
-- If the TRex is not already installed on TG, it is installed in the
-  suite setup phase - see `TRex intallation`_.
 - TRex configuration is set in its configuration file
+
   ::
 
-  /etc/trex_cfg.yaml
+      $ sudo -E -S sh -c 'cat << EOF > /etc/trex_cfg.yaml
+      - version: 2
+        c: 8
+        limit_memory: 8192
+        interfaces: ["${pci1}","${pci2}"]
+        port_info:
+          - dest_mac: [${dest_mac1}]
+            src_mac: [${src_mac1}]
+          - dest_mac: [${dest_mac2}]
+            src_mac: [${src_mac2}]
+        platform :
+          master_thread_id: 0
+          latency_thread_id: 9
+          dual_if:
+              - socket: 0
+                threads: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
+      EOF'
+
+- TRex is started in the interactive mode as a background service
 
-- TRex is started in the background mode
   ::
 
-  $ sh -c 'cd <t-rex-install-dir>/scripts/ && sudo nohup ./t-rex-64 -i -c 7  > /tmp/trex.log 2>&1 &' > /dev/null
+      $ sh -c 'cd <t-rex-install-dir>/scripts/ && \
+        sudo nohup ./t-rex-64 -i --prefix $(hostname) --hdrh --no-scapy-server \
+        > /tmp/trex.log 2>&1 &' > /dev/null
 
 - There are traffic streams dynamically prepared for each test, based on traffic
-  profiles. The traffic is sent and the statistics obtained using
+  profiles. The traffic is sent and the statistics obtained using API
   :command:`trex.stl.api.STLClient`.
 
 Measuring Packet Loss
@@ -49,4 +65,4 @@ Measuring Latency
 If measurement of latency is requested, two more packet streams are
 created (one for each direction) with TRex flow_stats parameter set to
 STLFlowLatencyStats. In that case, returned statistics will also include
-min/avg/max latency values.
+min/avg/max latency values and encoded HDRHistogram data.