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Chapter 4

Verifying the Installation


4.1 Introduction
4.2 Status Indicator LEDs
4.2.1 Trunk LEDs
4.2.2 Ethernet LEDs
4.3 Verifying That the Board is Installed Correctly
4.4 Verifying That the Board is Working Correctly
4.5 Demonstration Programs

4.1 IntroductionTop of Page

This chapter provides procedures to verify that the CG 6000C board is installed and configured correctly. Before you begin, make sure you have created a board keyword file. For more information about CG 6000C board keyword files, refer to Chapter 3.

4.2 Status Indicator LEDsTop of Page

The CG 6000C board has two sets of indicators (LEDs) on the end bracket of the board. One set is for the trunks and the other set is for the Ethernets.

4.2.1 Trunk LEDsTop of Page

The CG 6000C board has three (red, yellow, green) indicators (LEDs) for each trunk on the end bracket of the board. Each indicator is repeated four times for each of the trunks for a total of 12 indicators (LEDs).

The locations of the indicators are shown in Figure 22:
LED

Description

Red

Indicates loss of frame, loss of signal, or bit error rate.

Yellow

Indicates remote loss of frame, or remote loss of signaling multiframe.

Green

Indicates proper frame sync to the trunk: all required framing alignment has been found. This LED will be off if one or more of the following conditions exist:

· All ones alarm (AIS)

· Loss of frame

· Loss of signaling multiframe

· CRC errors (when the board is configured for ESF)

Hot Swap LED (blue)

Illuminated when it is safe to remove the CG 6000C board from the system. The LED illuminates under one of the following conditions:

· If the board is fully inserted when the backplane is powered-up, the blue LED momentarily flashes. This is a normal part of the initialization process.

· After opening the handles (during the extraction process), the LED illuminates to indicate that it is safe to remove the board. Do not remove the board until the LED illuminates. This occurs only if Hot Swap software is present.

· If the LED remains illuminated after insertion of a board and after you have closed the handles, the board failed to successfully perform its primary hardware initialization. While it is safe to remove the board, this condition indicates a problem.

The hot swap operation is defined in the CompactPCI Hot Swap Specification PICMG 2.1 R1.0.

Note: When the board is not configured, all trunk indicators are on.

4.2.2 Ethernet LEDsTop of Page

The CG 6000C board has three indicators (LEDs) for each of the two Ethernet interfaces.The location of the indicators are shown in Figure 22:
LED

Description

LINK

Indicates the status of the Ethernet link. This LED will be On if the respective Ethernet link is sound.

100Mb

Indicates the data rate of the Ethernet link. When the LED is On, the data rate is 100 MB. When the LED is Off, the data rate is 10 MB. This LED is used only when a sound Ethernet connection has been established (that is, the LINK LED is On).

ACTIVITY

Indicates the transmitting/receiving activity on the respective Ethernet link. When activity is present on the Ethernet link, the LED will flicker.


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Figure 22. CG 6000C Trunk LEDs and Ethernet LEDs

4.3 Verifying That the Board is Installed CorrectlyTop of Page

To verify that you have installed the board correctly:

  1. Create a board keyword file to boot the CG 6000C board by copying or editing one of the sample board keyword files to match your specific configuration. Refer to Chapter 3 for more information about the configuration file. You may want to use the c6wnk.cfg file which configures the board for the Wink Start protocol.

    
    
  2. Run oammon to monitor the status of all boards.

    
    
  3. Use the pciscan utility to determine the bus and slot number. Refer to the OAM System User's Manual for more information about the pciscan utility.

    
    
  4. Edit the system configuration file, oamsys.cfg, to reflect the board locations in your system.

    
    
  5. Boot the board using a command such as:

    
    oamsys
    No LEDs are illuminated if the NetworkInterface.T1E1[x].Type keyword is set NONE.

4.4 Verifying That the Board is Working CorrectlyTop of Page

To verify your board is working:

  1. Set the following keyword values in the board keyword file:

    • Clocking.HBus.ClockSource = OSC

      
      
    • Clocking.HBus.ClockMode = STANDALONE.

      
      
    • Boot the board using a command such as:

      
      oamsys
    • Run the digital trunk monitor utility, trunkmon.

      
      trunkmon monitors alarms and gathers performance statistics for T1 and E1 trunks. On a T1 trunk, an alarm state indicated by the Red, Yellow, or Blue alarm. On an E1 trunk, an alarm state is entered upon local or remote loss of frame, or excessive bit errors.
      If no T1/E1 trunk cables are connected to the CG 6000C board, trunkmon shows a loss of frame sync (Frame sync: No Frm) and an alarm state on all trunks. The red alarm LED on the front panel should be lit for all trunks. Refer to the OAM System User's Manual for more information about trunkmon.
    • Connect a cross-over cable between any two trunks of the CG 6000C board. The Frame Sync status should immediately change to OK and the green LEDs for those trunks will light. The remote alarm (yellow) LEDs will light to show that the trunk is indicating an alarm state to the other side. About 15 seconds (for T1 trunks, immediately for E1 trunks) after frame sync has been acquired, both trunks leave the alarm state. trunkmon indicates NONE for the alarm status and the red and yellow alarm LEDs go out. The frame sync (green) LEDs remain lit.

    4.5 Demonstration ProgramsTop of Page

    The following demonstration programs are provided with CT Access and may be used to verify that the CG 6000C board is operating correctly:
    Program

    Description

    ctatest

    Demonstrates CT Access functions.

    incta

    Demonstrates handling inbound calls.

    outcta

    Demonstrates establishing outbound calls.

    prt2prt

    Demonstrates call transfer from an incoming line to an outgoing line and uses the Switching service to make connections and to send patterns.

    vceplay

    Demonstrates using the Voice Message service to play messages in voice files.

    vcerec

    Records one or more messages to a voice file.

    
    Note:  Executables for incta, outcta, and prt2prt are in the respective sub-directories under nms\ctaccess\demos.
    
    Running these demonstration programs requires a connection to either a live T1/E1 trunk or a connection to T1/E1 test equipment which supports call generation and voice path testing. It is also possible to use the T1/E1 cross-over cable to loopback one trunk to another trunk. Calls placed on the first trunk can then be received on the other trunk.

    To run these demonstration programs on the CG 6000C board, specify the
    MVIP-95 stream and slot number of the local DSP resource on which to run the program.

    For example, on a CG 6000C board configured as a T1 board, the DSP resources on stream 16, timeslots 0..23 are connected to the first trunk. Timeslots 24..47 are connected to the second trunk, and so on. Assume that the board number is 0.



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