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Table Of Contents
Release Notes for Cisco ONS 15454 Release 3.2
Maintenance and Administration
Resolved Software Caveats for Release 3.2
Maintenance and Administration
New Features and Functionality
Obtaining Technical Assistance
Release Notes for Cisco ONS 15454 Release 3.2
March, 2002
Release notes address closed (maintenance) issues, caveats, and new features for the Cisco ONS 15454 SONET multiplexer. For detailed information regarding features, capabilities, hardware, and software introduced with this release, refer to Release 3.2. of the Cisco ONS 15454 Installation and Operations Guide, Cisco ONS 15454 Troubleshooting and Reference Guide, and Cisco ONS 15454 TL1 Command Guide. For the most current version of the Release Notes for Cisco ONS 15454 Release 3.2, visit the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/ong/15400/454relnt/index.htm
Cisco also provides Bug Toolkit, a web resource for tracking defects. To access Bug Toolkit, visit the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/launch_bugtool.pl
Contents
Resolved Software Caveats for Release 3.2
New Features and Functionality
Obtaining Technical Assistance
Changes to the Release Notes
This section documents supplemental changes that have been added to the Release Notes for Cisco ONS 15454 Release 3.2 since the production of the Cisco ONS 15454 System Software CD for Release 3.2.
The following changes to the release notes for Release 3.2 have been added.
Changes to Caveats
The following caveats have been added:
The following caveat has been changed to more accurately reflect the nature of the issue:
Caveats
Review the notes listed below before deploying the ONS 15454. Caveats with DDTS tracking numbers are known system limitations that are scheduled to be addressed in a subsequent release. Caveats without DDTS tracking numbers are provided to point out procedural or situational considerations when deploying the product.
Line Cards
DDTS # CSCdw59020
CTNEQPT_PB alarms may be raised during a hardware upgrade from XC or XCVT cards to XC10G cards. The alarm will be raised if one of the following actions is performed during the XC or XCVT upgrade to XC10G, while the XC10G is active and the XC or XCVT is standby:
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resetting the standby XC or XCVT
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If this issue occurs, switch from the XC10G back to the XC or XCVT, soft reset the OC48ASs in the trunk slots, and restart the upgrade process. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdw66444
When an SDH signal is sent into an ONS 15454 OC-12 or OC-48 port which has been configured to support SDH, an SD-P (Signal Degrade) alarm will appear as soon as the circuit is created. This alarm will continue to exist until the circuit is deleted. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdw57215
In a configuration with OC-48 Any Slot cards and an STS-24c circuit, provisioned between G1000-4 cards with traffic going over the OC-48 span, extracting the G1000-4 card at one end of the STS-24c circuit before deleting the circuit will result in a traffic hit on all existing SONET circuits defined over that same span.
XC10G Boot Process
If you install a new XC10G card to the node and it fails to boot, remove the card and reinsert it. If the card still fails to boot, return it using the RMA procedure. This issue will be resolved in future hardware.
DDTS # CSCdw09604
After an upgrade from XCVT to XC10G, nodes with older OC-48 cards (revision number 005D) can be subject to jitter problems on the transmit line, possibly causing B3 errors on the far end receiver.
Jitter Performance with XC10G
During testing with the XC10G, jitter generation above 0.10 UI p-p related to temperature gradient testing has been observed. This effect is not expected to be seen under standard operating conditions. Changes are being investigated to improve jitter performance in a subsequent version of the XC10G cross connect card. DDTS numbers related to this issue include CSCdv50357, CSCdv63567, CSCdv68418, CSCdv68441, CSCdv68389, CSCdv59621, and CSCdv73402.
DDTS # CSCdv81011, CSCdu15203
When performing an XC/XCVT to XC10G upgrade on a two fiber BLSR configuration, Ethernet traffic disruptions can exceed seven minutes. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdv83422
Removing or resetting the active cross connect on a node can cause a traffic disruption on an OC-12 or DS-3E card in that node. To avoid this issue, perform a side switch on the cross connect before resetting. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdv80971
A service disruption of greater than 50 ms can occur on a working OC-3 card removal. This extended traffic disruption can occur on an OC-3 1+1 span on ports 3 or 4, with STS-3C traffic, when OC-3 cards are provisioned to have four OC-3 1+1 protection groups, and when all four ports are in service. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdv80935
A DS-1 can raise an equipment fail alarm if there have never been any circuits provisioned on the card since the card was inserted in its slot. To correct this issue when it occurs, provision a circuit on the card. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdv49271
In a network with a 1:1 protection group where Slot 1 has the protect card and Slot 2 has the working card, and where there is a VT circuit between the two cards, it is possible to create a situation wherein both cards are temporarily in the active state. This can occur if you switch traffic on the Slot 1 card, lock on the Slot 1 card, reseat the Slot 2 card, and then soft reset the Slot 1 card. Both cards will reboot simultaneously and both with come up active, and traffic may be lost. To avoid this problem, always wait for the working card to finish rebooting and go into standby before you reset the protect card. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
Active Cross Connect or TCC+ Card Removal
In BLSR, UPSR, and 1+1, you must perform a lockout before physically removing an active cross connect or TCC+ card. The following rules apply.
Active cross connect cards should not generally be physically removed. If the active cross connect or TCC+ card must be removed, you can first perform an XC/XCVT side switch and then remove the card once it is in standby, or you can perform a lockout on all circuits that originate from the node whose active cross connect or active TCC+ will be removed (performing a lockout on all spans will also accomplish the same goal). No lockout is necessary for switches initiated through CTC or through TL1.
DDTS # CSCdv62565, CSCdv62573
In a 1:N protection group, do not pre-provision a DS-N card and then add it to the group while an actual traffic-carrying card in the group is removed from its slot. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdu71847: DS3 Equipment Protection
DS3N-12E and DS3N-12 cards can be provisioned in the same 1:1 or 1:N protection group only if a DS3N-12E card is the protect member. If a DS3N-12 card is chosen as the protect member, only the DS3-12 cards will be available to be the working members of that protection group. This applies to both the 1:1 and 1:N protection schemes. This functionality is as designed.
E Series and G Series Cards
Note
Throughput/Latency Testing
When testing the G1000-4 for latency/throughput at, near, or above the maximum allowable line rate per the guiding specifications, IEEE 802.3 and 802.3z. Customers testing for Throughput or Latency may see throughput calculations that can vary from 100% to 99.98% throughput, depending on the accuracy of the test set clock and the variability of the clock on the G1000-4. As described in the text below, the G1000-4 is fully compliant with the specification for line rate gigabit Ethernet. However, during testing in the lab environment, technicians need to be cognizant of the throughput settings and accuracy of the clock on the test set to ensure that the variances in throughput seen on the G1000-4 are not mistakenly perceived as being out of specification. Further, it needs to be understood that such testing is not reflective of traffic conditions that would be experienced in real world networks.
IEEE 802.3 allows for a variation in the clock rate of +/- 100 parts per million (ppm), allowing a range of speeds to be considered conforming to the specification.
The legal range of for Gigabit Ethernet is an follows:
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Conforming devices may not vary the preamble size, start frame delimiter size, or reduce the inter packet gap. The G1000-4 is fully compliant with these parameters.
During lab testing with a throughput testing device (Spirent Smartbits, Ixia test devices, etc.), because of a speed variance between the ingress packets from the external device and the egress speed from the G1000-4, throughput can vary from 100 percent to 99.98%, depending on the difference in clock speeds between the devices. Due to the allowable variation of clock tolerance, Some G1000 cards transmit below the nominal clock speed for Gigabit Ethernet, but well within the IEEE specification. In fact, although the specification allows for +/- 100ppm of tolerance, the oscillator on the G1000-4 has been found to vary only between +/- 40ppm on average (G1000-4 clock never runs below the minimum speed of 1,487,946 frames per second outlined in the IEEE specification). We guarantee the +/- 100ppm per the specification.
Short duration traffic bursts that are above the nominal rate are buffered, thus traffic isn't dropped for bursty traffic above the nominal rate. However, sustained traffic that is above wirespeed will be buffered and at some point the buffers will overflow can result in a nominal amount of dropped packets. The G1000 card will never drop a single frame with test equipment that is running at -100 ppm of line rate.
This issue can only be witnessed in a lab environment, as it would require all of the following conditions to occur simultaneously in a real network in order to cause frame loss.
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DDTS # CSCdx05444
If a circuit already exists on a G1000-4 card, the provisioning of any subsequent circuit can cause bit errors up to 1 ms on the existing circuit(s). The only affected circuit size found in testing is 24c. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdw43919
When running traffic at 100% line rate with a repetitive data pattern, frame corruption and loss may occur for approximately one to three percent of the frames. This issue can occur when all of the following conditions are present:
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There are two ways to avoid this issue:
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In summary, this problem will only be exhibited in test scenarios, for which the above workarounds can be used, and the probability of occurrence is extremely remote.
The resolution for this issue will be released with a PCN, which improves the tolerance of the transmit clock.
DDTS # CSCdw69347
When sending frames greater than 16384 bytes that also have a valid and matching Ethernet CRC over the G1000-4, the link between the ports can sometimes toggle up and down. The receiving port should discard oversized packets, rather than bringing the link down. In practice, no real-world device is expected to generate frames that are both greater than 16384 bytes and also have a correct Ethernet CRC. This issue is most likely to be seen when using test equipment in the lab (which can be set up to generate frames which are both greater than 16384 bytes and have a correct CRC), rather than with real world Ethernet switches or routers. This issue is resolved in Release 3.3.
DDTS # CSCdw49371
A carrier loss alarm on an E100 or E1000 line can become stuck, failing to clear even after deleting the affected circuit and soft-resetting the Ethernet card. To recover from this condition, reset the active TCC+. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdv76022
In a network running multicard Etherswitch over BLSR, an Ethernet traffic loss can occur after a power cycle. To correct this issue when it occurs, wait until the Ethernet cards are in the active state, then reset the standby cross connect card, and finally, reset the active cross connect. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
E1000-2/E100T
Do not use the repair circuit option with provisioned stitched Ethernet circuits. It is not known at this time when or if this issue will be resolved.
Single-card EtherSwitch
Starting with Release 2.2.0, each E100/E1000 card can be configured as a single-card EtherSwitch configuration to allow STS-12c of bandwidth to be dropped at each card. The following scenarios for provisioning are available:
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When configuring scenario 3, the STS-6c must be provisioned before either of the STS-3c circuits.
Multicard EtherSwitch
When deleting and recreating Ethernet circuits that have different sizes, you must delete all STS circuits provisioned to the EtherSwitch before you create the new circuit scenario. (See the preceding "Single-card EtherSwitch" section for details on the proper order of circuit creation.) Enable front ports so that the VLANs for the ports are carried by the largest circuit first. A safe approach is to enable the front port before you create any circuits and then retain the front port VLAN assignment afterwards. If you break the rules when creating a circuit, or if you have to delete circuits and recreate them again, delete all circuits and start over with the largest first.
DDTS # CSCds02031 E1000-2/E100
Whenever you drop two 3c multicard EtherSwitch circuits onto an Ethernet card and delete only the first circuit, you should not provision STS-1 circuits to the card without first deleting the remaining STS-3c circuit. If you attempt to create an STS-1 circuit after deleting the first STS-3c circuit, the STS-1 circuit will not work and no alarms will indicate this condition. To avoid a failed STS-1 circuit, delete the second STS-3c prior to creating any STS-1 circuit.
Maintenance and Administration
PJ Thresholds
In Releases prior to Release 3.3, CTC displays four PJ thresholds. Only the first value is used as a threshold for all PJ counts. The second value is configurable but ignored. The 3rd and 4th are not configurable. In Release 3.3 all four PJ's thresholds are configurable and TCA's are properly generated when PJ counts reach the configured threshold.
DDTS # CSCdx27495 SNMP Traps
When SNMP traps 3580 & 3590 are received from a Cisco ONS 15454 node, the NMS does not display the associated cerent454ObjectName varbind (the rest of the varbinds are displayed correctly). This problem occurs only if the NMS uses the trap definitions from the MIB file to build a display template to display all the Cisco 15454 proprietary traps. To work around this issue, manually add additional varbind display information to the trap display template in the NMS for these traps. This issue will be resolved in Release 3.4.
DDTS # CSCdx23202
Certain combinations of concatenations, when provisioned in a certain sequence, can cause a large number of spurious B3 errors to be inserted into circuits carrying G1000-4 traffic.
These false B3 errors are detectable as signal fail or signal degrade alarm conditions, which could result in a UPSR switch. The combination and sequence of concatenations that cause this problem must include STS-1s and an STS-6 or greater circuit.
In general, when unexplained signal fail and signal degrade conditions are seen on a STS-1 G1000-4 circuit, this issue could be the problem. You can safely ignore the B3 errors and Signal Fail/Signal Degrade alarms on G1000 circuits if these circuits terminate on G1000 cards upon which an STS-1 also terminates.
As a workaround the circuit may be re-provisioned (re-sized), as an STS-3c, for example. This issue is resolved in Release 3.3.
ONS 15454 Conducted Emissions Kit
If you are deploying the Cisco ONS 15454 within a European Union country that requires compliance with the EN300-386-TC requirements for Conducted Emissions, you must obtain and install the Cisco ONS 15454 Conducted Emissions kit in order to comply with this standard.
Upgrading to Use the G1000-4 Ethernet Card
Before installing or seating the G1000-4 Ethernet card on node running Release 3.1 or prior, you must upgrade the software on that node to Release 3.2. This is as designed.
DDTS # CSCdw64191
When testing throughput and latency of STS-24c circuits on the G1000-4 card, Gigabit Ethernet utilization must be no more than 99.98%. If utilization exceeds this rate, an increase in latency will result. This is an unlikely scenario in a production network, considering dynamic frame sizes, patterns, utilization rates, and interframe gaps. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdw61550
When upgrading the software from Release 3.1 to Release 3.2 and subsequently reverting back to Release 3.1, a one-way Ethernet traffic loss may occur after the revert. This issue has been seen after a multicard STS-6c circuit is created. The traffic loss will show LOP-P on OC-192 and AIS-P on E1000 cards. To revive traffic, perform a cross connect switch. This is a Release 3.1 issue that is resolved with Release 3.2.
SNMP Payload Visibility
Release 3.1 SNMP reports path/payload level alarm traps (such as AIS-P, PDI-P, etc.) against line0 without payload information. Release 3.2 provides payload visibility into SNMP traps for path/payload level alarm traps).
DDTS # CSCdw59020
Cisco does not support downgrades from XC10G to XC or XCVT cards. In a future release Cisco will, however, support downgrades that occur during the upgrade process, in the event that circumstances make this necessary. There are no plans to implement further downgrade support.
DDTS # CSCdw58071
Users of both CTC and TL1 are able to specify a G1000 card as a secondary source or destination as if it were an OC-N trunk card.
When you create a circuit in CTC and select the G1000 card, the Secondary Source/Destination checkbox is not grayed out. Checking this box allows the selection of another G1000 port as a secondary drop.
Similarly, in TL1 the following command creates a UPSR cross-connect with primary and secondary drops on the G1000 card (in slot 4 in the example):
Example 1 ent-crs-sts3c::fac-4-1&fac-4-2,sts-2-1:1;
Neither of these procedures is supported. To avoid possible problems, do not execute either of the two procedures described above.
This issue will be resolved in Release 3.30.
DDTS # CSCdw50297
When a CTC session is conducted from one area, while the node it is managing is in another area (the two are connected by a router), changing the OSPF area on the node it might cause a connection loss before the changes can take effect on the node. To work around this limitation, perform OSPF area changes from a CTC session in the same area as the node to which they will apply. This issue will be resolved in Release 3.3.
DDTS # CSCdw47506
A CTC communications failure on the network during circuit creation can cause a "Circuit Provisioning Error" exception. An attempt to continue with the errored circuit creation results in other exceptions that occur repeatedly on each attempt to continue. This issue has been seen infrequently, and only on large networks. To correct the problem, abandon the attempted circuit creation and start over. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdw03281
Under certain conditions, the CTC GUI freezes. To recover from this condition, you must restart CTC. This behavior has only been seen when all of the following conditions are met:
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This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCct03396 Ring Map Change Dialog Box
In Releases 2.0-2.2.2 and 3.0-3.1, when you add a node to a BLSR, CTC displays a Ring Map Change dialog box asking you to accept the change. If you browse away from the node view before this dialog box has appeared, the dialog box may fail to appear, or may come up behind another window. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdv72344
Provisioning multiple VT 1.5 circuits using auto-ranging can put a strain on the node, causing some other nodes to temporarily appear as grayed-out in the network view. To prevent excess stress on the node, reduce the number of auto-ranged circuits created per batch. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdv81633
In Release 3.1, TL1 and CTC report the equipment type for an XC10G card as "XC192." This can be seen in the alarm messages generated after an XC10G card is removed from its slot. Also, SNMP reports a "powerFailRestart" when an XC10G card is removed. These issues will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdv62990
Telcordia GR-815 requires that a new password must have at least 1 numeric character (0 to 9) and at least one special character from the character set {plus-sign (+), pound-sign (#), percent-sign (%)}. CTC normally issues a warning if the password is non-compliant, but allows you to create the password. However, CTC does not issue a warning when a new password is requested that has two special characters, but no numeric component. Thus, for example, there is no warning in CTC for the password aaaa++, which lacks the numeric character and is non-compliant.
DDTS # CSCdt94185
CTC can fail to drop user initiated switch requests (Manual or Force) when a higher priority request is initiated. This issue can arise when a switch request is made by the user and then another, higher priority request is made. CTC should preempt the user request with the higher priority request. If CTC fails to clear the request, manually clear the request. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdv10824: Netscape Plugins Directory
If you use CTC, JRE, and the Netscape browser with a Microsoft Windows platform, you must ensure that any new installation of Netscape uses the same Netscape directory as the previous installation did, if such an installation existed. If you install Netscape using a different path for the plugins directory, you will need to reinstall JRE so that it can detect the new directory.
DDTS # CSCdu82934
When you auto-route a VT circuit on an ONS 15454 node, a path is computed based on the availability of STSs on the nodes involved. This selection process, when combined with a lack of VT matrix (or STS-VT connections) on an auto-route selected node, can result in the VT circuit creation failing with the message "unable to create connection object at node." To correct this situation, manually route VT circuits in cases when auto-routing fails. The error message will indicate which node is at issue.
OSPF Virtual Links
When ONS 15327s are DCC-connected you cannot use OSPF virtual links. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdu19246: CTC Protection Pane Displays Protect/Standby on Pulled Card
The CTC Protection pane that displays the status of protection groups might not refresh to reflect that a protect card has been removed. The Improper Removal alarm is raised, however.
DDTS # CSCdt88289: Processing of FEAC Loopback Commands
FEAC loopback commands issued in specific scenarios may not be processed appropriately unless a deactivate FEAC loopback command is sent first. To clear the FEAC loopback, put the port Out of Service, perform a manual loopback, or change the framing mode to a mode other than C-Bit. The FEAC loopback state is cleared correctly in CTC and the DS3E card, but currently, a loop down command (for example, deactivate FEAC loopback) needs to be sent before the DS3E will process loop up commands. This issue will be resolved in Release 3.3.
"Are you sure" Prompts
Whenever a proposed change occurs, the "Are you sure" dialog box appears to warn the user that the action can change existing provisioning states or can cause traffic disruptions.
Interoperability
DDTS # CSCds13769: Fujitsu FLM-150 and Nortel OC-3 Express
You cannot provision the FLM-150 and OC-3 Express in 1+1 revertive switching mode. The problem occurs when the ONS 15454 issues a user request in revertive mode to the protect channel. When the user request is cleared, the ONS 15454 issues a No Request. However, the FLM-150 and OC-3 Express issues a Do Not Revert, which causes traffic to remain on the protection channel. Based on GR-253, section 5.3.5.5, the FLM-150 and the OC-3 Express should respond with a No Request.
BLSR Functionality
DDTS # CSCdw79328
Traffic with bit errors can fail to switch when a unidirectional signal degrade occurs on the working span and a unidirectional signal fail occurs on the protect span between the same two nodes, where one condition is detected by each node. To correct this problem when the protect span is still failed, issue a Force switch-ring on the working span that detected SD. To correct this problem when the protect has been restored and the working still detects SD, issue a Force switch-span on the protect span that detected SF. Before clearing the issued force command (either "force-ring" or "force-span") make sure that at least one of the line conditions has been cleared properly. It is critical that you do not clear the force command until one of the failures has been cleared. This issue will be resolved in Release 3.3.
DDTS # CSCdv70175
Release 3.1 introduced the support of up to two BLSRs per node; this includes support for one 4 Fiber BLSR and one 2 Fiber BLSR on the same node. When configuring a node with one 4 Fiber BLSR and one 2 Fiber BLSR, an issue was found related to the version of XC deployed. Revision 004H and earlier revisions of the XC do not support this configuration. All later revisions of the XC and all versions of the XCVT and XC10G cross connects support all permutations of two BLSRs per node.
DDTS # CSCdw57215
In a configuration with OC-48 Any Slot cards and an STS-24c circuit, provisioned between G1000-4 cards with traffic going over the OC-48 span, extracting the G1000-4 card at one end of the STS-24c circuit before deleting the circuit will result in a traffic hit on all existing SONET circuits defined over that same span.
DDTS # CSCdw45196
In a BLSR configuration with a node isolated from the ring, the span cards on the nodes connected to the isolated node normally send out AIS-P. However, if the span cards receive any new provisioning messages while in squelch mode, the squelch AIS-P is mistakenly cleared. To avoid this problem, do not perform any provisioning while a node is isolated. This issue will be resolved in Release 3.3.
DDTS # CSCdw48849
Some difficulty can be encountered on creating 336 VT 1.5 circuits over a four fiber BLSR. This has only been seen after creating 300 or more such circuits, in a ring where there may have been a communication problem with one of the nodes in the ring. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdv80859
Using the span upgrade procedure to perform a two fiber to four fiber BLSR upgrade, or performing the upgrade while the BLSR is in any switching state, can cause traffic disruption. This issue is more likely to arise in a non-revertive ring. To avoid traffic loss, force a lockout over the entire ring (as you would before a software activation) to prevent the ring from switching during the upgrade. If for some reason you are unable to perform the lockout beforehand, and you experience a traffic disruption, traffic can only be recovered by a soft reset both active and standby cross connect cards. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
Note
DDTS # CSCdv74761
An EC1 card on a BLSR node that is squelching traffic generates a UNEQ-P alarm. This occurs because BLSR does not send out AIS-P to the drop EC1 card (this only occurs with EC1), when the node squelches traffic. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdv63336
On a Release 3.1 BLSR, when conducting a span upgrade to XC10G, watch for any rebooting of the active cross connect. This condition is rare; however, if the active cross connect does reboot, you must reboot it again after the span upgrade is complete. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdv53427
In a two ring, two fiber BLSR configuration (or a two ring BLSR configuration with one two fiber and one four fiber ring) it is possible to provision a circuit that begins on one ring, crosses to a second ring, and returns to the original ring. Such a circuit can have protection vulnerabilities if one of the common nodes is isolated, or if a ring is segmented in such a way that two non-contiguous segments of the circuit on the same ring are each broken. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
DDTS # CSCct03919
VT1.5 BLSR squelching in BLSRs is not supported.
Database Restore on a BLSR
When restoring the database on a BLSR, follow these steps:
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
UPSR Functionality
Active Cross Connect or TCC+ Card Removal
As in BLSR and 1+1, you must perform a lockout on UPSR before removing an active cross connect or TCC+ card. The following rules apply to UPSR.
Active cross connect cards should not generally be removed. If the active cross connect or TCC+ card must be removed, you can first perform an XC/XCVT side switch and then remove the card once it is in standby, or you can perform a lockout on all circuits that originate from the node whose active cross connect or active TCC+ will be removed (performing a lockout on all spans will also accomplish the same goal). No lockout is necessary for switches initiated through CTC or through TL1.
Documentation
AIP Card Replacement
When replacing an AIP card, you must record the old MAC address from the card before replacing it, as you will need the MAC address in the Circuit Repair procedure that follows the card replacement. The MAC address must be recorded before the TCC reset that follows the card replacement, or it will be lost. This issue will be resolved in Release 3.3. The documentation for Release 3.3 clarifies the need to record the MAC address.
TL1
Note
DDTS # CSCdu53509
When a TL1 session to a remote node (ENE) is established via a gateway node (GNE) and you have changed the node name of the ENE via either TL1, CTC or SNMP, then you must wait for about 30 seconds to issue a TL1 command via the GNE. This delay is to permit the updates to propagate to all nodes in the network. During this transition, neither the old node name nor the new node name can be used in the TL1 session to access the ENE. This 30 second window will be eliminated in a future release.
DDTS # CSCdw42351
On a DS3XM card, the DS1 AISP/ESP/SESP threshold crossing alerts list the facility and the VT that crossed the threshold. In Release 3.2, the positions of the facility and VT numbers may be transposed (swapped). To use the data effectively, record the VT and facility numbers elsewhere, in their correct (transposed) positions. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
Commands not Supported as of Release 3.0
The following Cross Connect commands are not supported as of Release 3.0:
ED-CRS-<STS_PATH>
ED-CRS-VT1
The following Equipment commands are not supported as of Release 3.0:
OPR-UPGRADE
Resolved Software Caveats for Release 3.2
The following items are resolved in Release 3.2.
Line Cards
DDTS # CSCdv76800
An OC-3 1+1 span carrying SDH traffic might experience a traffic disruption greater than 50 ms during a cross connect switch. This issue is resolved in Release 3.2.
DDTS # CSCdv74258
When an OC-192 or OC-48AS card is configured as the protect card in a 1+1 protection group, and is provisioned to operate in SDH mode, it may fail to transmit the expected zero value in bits 6 through 8 of a K2 byte. Other optical cards will report the zero value for K2 bytes as expected (for SDH). This issue is not traffic affecting.
In an all-Cisco network, this will pose no problems; however, if Cisco nodes inter-operate with a third party node, this could be an issue, depending on how that node responds to non-zero values in those bits. This issue is resolved in Release 3.2.
DDTS # CSCdv44837, CSCdv22992
When you perform an XC/XCVT to XC10G card upgrade following the procedure in Cisco ONS 15454 Troubleshooting and Maintenance Guide, Release 3.1, you may encounter a traffic disruption for a duration greater than 50 ms after you have switched to the XC10G. This issue is resolved in Release 3.2.
DDTS # CSCdv28419
E1000 cards with the part number (PN) 800-06746-03 do not fully meet the IEEE 802.3 specification for pulse mask. Multiple mask hits occur in region 1 of the mask. These cards may generate 8b/10b coding violations. Greater than 10% of sample cards with this part number have been observed to generate mask violations. Such mask violations are not expected to cause bit errors. The issue is addressed with Engineering Change Order E031468, implemented on September 20, 2001. Cards with a new PN, 800-06746-04, were issued. Mask violations from the 800-06746-04 cards are significantly less than 5% in samples tested. This issue is resolved entirely with ECO # E038294.
Maintenance and Administration
DDTS # CSCdw16886
Under some circumstances, CTC enters a condition whereby the CPU remains at 100% utilization for the platform on which it is running (it is normal for the CPU to undergo brief periods of 100% utilization). For a network to be vulnerable to this issue, the network must contain ONS 15327s, must have at least 8 nodes (the problem is more likely to occur with 12 or more nodes), and the node acting as CTC host (GNE) must be one of the following:
ONS 15327 Release 1.0
ONS 15327 Release 1.0.1
ONS 15454 Release 3.0
ONS 15454 Release 3.0.1
ONS 15454 Release 3.0.2
ONS 15454 Release 3.0.3
ONS 15454 Release 3.1
To avoid this problem, networks with 8 or more nodes and
1. Only ONS 15327s should ensure that all host nodes are running ONS 15327 Release 1.0.2.
2. Mixed 15327 and 15454 networks should ensure that either:
a) All host nodes are running ONS 15327 Release 1.0.2 and all 15454s are running Release 2.2.x or 3.2, or
b) All host nodes are running ONS 15454 Release 3.2.
If this issue occurs in a network running all ONS 15327s, point to a different node with CTC or utilize TL1, or SNMP for monitoring, then call the Technical Assistance Center (TAC) at 1 877 323-7368.
If this issue occurs in a mixed ONS 15454 and 15327 network, terminate the CTC process, then call the Technical Assistance Center (TAC) at 1 877 323-7368.
This issue is resolved in ONS 15454 Release 3.2 and ONS 15327 Release 1.0.2, with exceptions as noted above.
DDTS # CSCdv91318, CSCdv82311
Upon completion of a software download of Release 3.1 to a node running Release 3.0.x, you may see an "aborted" message in the status window. This message does not necessarily mean that the software failed to download successfully. To check the status of the software download, from the CTC node view, click the Maintenance > Software tabs, then verify that the protect version is 3.1. This issue is resolved in Release 3.2.
DDTS # CSCdv76104
After performing a span upgrade on a 1+1 network with Ethernet traffic, you might experience an optical card reboot. This has been seen with OC-48 cards. This issue is resolved in Release 3.2.
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When you perform a span upgrade where a one way UPSR circuit exists, the circuit may undergo traffic outage on the alternate span after the upgrade. This occurs when the circuit is incorrectly cross-connected after the particular card is upgraded. To correct this issue when it occurs, in the node view, Maintenance tab, switch the cross connect cards in both nodes connected to the upgraded span. Alternatively, you can perform the following steps to restore traffic for each one way UPSR circuit:
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This issue is resolved in Release 3.2.
DDTS # CSCdv76699
After a span upgrade, you might experience a TCC+ reset. This reset should not affect traffic. A TCC+ reset after a span upgrade can lead to one or more MEA alarms in response to new card types present in the node. If you experience an MEA alarm, change the affected card type to reflect the type of the new card by right-clicking on the card, selecting Change Card, and changing the card type to match that of the new card in the given slot. This issue is resolved in Release 3.2.
DDTS # CSCdv89038
You must reset the active TCC+ on any node for which the MEM-LOW or MEM-GONE alarm is raised. This issue is resolved in Release 3.2.
DDTS # CSCdv63386
When using Release 3.1 TL1, a manual switch to an internal (ST3) clock might be allowed when the active source is of better quality. Specifically, issuing the OPR-SYNCSW command to switch to the internal source will succeed when it should not. If this occurs, use the RLS-SYNCSW command to reinstate the higher quality timing source. This issue is resolved in Release 3.2.
DDTS # CSCdv25954
In networks supporting Release 3.1 and Release 2.2.1 nodes concurrently, do not choose "Exclude dynamically discovered nodes" at CTC login. To do so can impair visibility of some nodes from your CTC session. This issue is resolved in Release 3.2.
SNMP
DDTS # CSCdv78610
When creating an SNMP trap destination, do not enter a Community Name with a length of more than 32 characters. This issue is resolved in Release 3.2.
DDTS # CSCdv36186
The cerent454LineNumber is always zero in the trap varbind list. This varbind should carry the payload information regarding the interface. That is, if a trap is raised by an object in the system, this newly added varbind should indicate which object raised this trap. This issue is resolved in Release 3.2.
BLSR Functionality
DDTS # CSCdw52669
After a power failure, when the node reboots, BLSR might switch back early to the working cards and cause a traffic outage on the passthrough circuits. This occurs only in 4 fiber BLSR (Release 3.1 only). This issue is resolved in Release 3.2.
DDTS # CSCdv78467
In a BLSR running Release 3.1, if you plan to perform a side switch on a node that has a cross connect already in the wait to restore (WTR) state (from a previous side switch), to ensure continuous traffic, you must first lock out both spans to adjacent nodes (as you would if you were performing an active cross connect removal). This issue is resolved in Release 3.2.
TL1
DDTS # CSCdw04303 TL1 RTRV-CRS-VT1 Command
In Release 3.1, do not use the TL1 RTRV-CRS-VT1 command with the AID value, "ALL." To do so will cause the TCC+ to reset. If you accidentally issue the RTRV-CRS-VT1 command with the AID value and experience the TCC+ reset, follow these instructions to re-establish your TL1 session:
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GNENode> ACT-USER:ENENode:UserId:Ctag::Password;Step 2
GNENode> ACT-USER:ENENode:UserId:Ctag::Password;This issue is resolved in Release 3.2.
New Features and Functionality
Hardware
G1000-4 Card
Release 3.2 introduces the G1000-4 card. The G1000-4 card provides four line-rate gigabit (STS-24c) Ethernet ports. The card supports the following circuit sizes under any SONET protection configuration:
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The G1000-4 supports up to 48c maximum aggregate bandwidth per board. The G1000-4 transports up to one 48c, two 24c, or four 12c circuits per board.
The following specifications are defined for the G1000-4 card:
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G1000-4 cards are equipped with four GBIC connectors used for optical cable termination. GBICs must be ordered separately. The G1000-4 cards are rated at 62 watts per card and operate at ambient temperatures ranging from -5 degrees Celsius to +55 degrees Celsius.
Before you install the G1000-4 card to an ONS 15454 node, the node must be running Release 3.2 software or greater, must be provisioned with TCC+ cards, and must be provisioned with the XC10G card in the new (Release 3.1) ANSI shelf. If a G1000-4 card is inserted into a node that is provisioned with either XC or XCVT cards, the new card will not be recognized. Both high-speed slots and low-speed slots support the G1000-4 card. The high-speed slots are 5, 6, 12, and 13. The low-speed slots are 1-4 and 14-17.
Software
G1000-4 Path Trace Mode Support
Release 3.2 provides support for transmitting or receiving J1 byte information in the Trace Path Mode of the G1000-4 card. Only Path Terminate Equipment (PTE) can transmit and receive consecutive 64-J1 byte information. The trunk card can only receive (monitor) J1 byte information.
802.3 Flow Control and Frame Buffering
The G1000-4 supports 802.3x flow control and frame buffering to reduce data traffic congestion. To buffer over-subscription, 512 K bytes of buffer memory are available for the receive and transmit channels on each port (2 M bytes per board). When the buffer memory on the Ethernet sides nears capacity, the ONS 15454 uses 802.3x flow control to send back a frame called a "pause frame" to the source at the opposite end of the Gigabit Ethernet connection.
The pause frame instructs that station to stop sending packets for a specific period of time. The sending station waits the requested time before sending more data. The G1000-4 card does not respond to pause frames received from client devices.
This flow-control mechanism matches the sending and receiving device throughput to that of the bandwidth of the STS circuit. For example, two GSR 12000 series routers may transmit 1000 Mbps data through the 12c circuit on the G1000-4. This particular data rate between GSRs may occasionally exceed 622 Megabits per second (STS-12c). In this example, the G1000-4 sends out a pause frame and requests that the GSR12000 series delay transmission for a certain period of time.
Ethernet Link Integrity and SONET PDI-P Support
The G1000-4 supports end-to-end Ethernet link integrity. This capability is integral to providing an Ethernet private line service as well as for correct operation of layer 2 and layer 3 protocols on the attached Ethernet devices at each end. End-to-end Ethernet link integrity essentially means that if any part of the end-to-end path has a failure then the entire path is brought down. This is done by turning off the transmit lasers at each end, which will be detected by the attached Ethernet devices as a loss of carrier and consequently an inactive link. An Ethernet interface is expected to detect a loss of carrier as an indication of an inactive link.
When a local side of the link fails with a CARLOSS (Carrier Loss on LAN) alarm, the local G1000-4 card will send a PDI-P indication (C2-byte) to the remote G1000-4 through the trunk. The far-end G1000-4 receiving the PDI-P will indicate that the link is down with a TPTFAIL (Transport Layer Failure) alarm and turn off its associate port transmitter. The far-end Ethernet device will then detect the Carrier Loss on the associate network interface. The PDI-P condition is raised on the far-end trunk card and G1000-4, as well as all trunk cards (if any) of the transport nodes.
Note that even if one of the Ethernet ports is administratively disabled or set in loopback mode, this is considered a "failure" for the purposes of end-to-end link integrity, since the end-to-end Ethernet path is not available. These conditions also cause both ends of the path to be brought down. This feature is also an integral part of the support for Gigabit EtherChannel.
Terminal Loopback and Hairpin Circuit Support
G1000-4 supports terminal loopback from the Maintenance tab of the CTC card view. You can configure a port for a Terminal (Inward) loopback or clear the loopback (none). Release 3.2 supports hairpin (port-to-port) circuits on the G1000-4.
G1000-4 Ethernet Port Media Type Display Support
The G1000-4 can display the Media (GBIC) type (SX, LX or ZX). From the CTC card view, select Provisioning > Port to view the media type.
Support for New Ethernet Performance Statistics
Clear Button
Release 3.2 adds a Clear button to the Performance > Statistics tabs in the card view for the G1000-4. This button resets the actual counters on the card to zero. All management clients see the change. Note that the Clear button does not cause the G1000-4 card to reset.
New Statistics for the G1000-4 Card
Release 3.2 supports the following new Ethernet performance statistics for the G1000-4 card.
Receive Pause Frames—Number of received Ethernet 802.3x pause frames
Transmit Pause Frames—Number of transmitted 802.3x pause frames
Receive Packets Dropped Internal Congestion—Number of received packets dropped due to overflow in G1000-4 frame buffer
Transmit Packets Dropped Internal Congestion—Number of transmit queue drops due to drops in G1000-4 frame buffer
A new "HDLC errors" counter has been added. This counter internally monitors the corruption of data on the SONET path between 2 G1000-4 cards.
K3 Byte Transparency for the OC-48AS
K3 byte transparency provides networking flexibility for mixed vendor BLSR networks. The K3 byte, required for BLSR functionality on the ONS 15454, is carried in the K2 byte of the second STS. Since the K3 byte is a non-standard feature of ONS 15454 SONET overhead, some third party muxponder topologies have, in the past, been unable to transport them seamlessly. With Release 3.2, the ONS 15454 OC-48AS card allows users to re-map the K3 byte to an alternative byte (Z2, F1, or E2) supported by third party vendor equipment. For information on remapping the K3 byte, see Cisco ONS 15454 Installation and Operations Guide, Release 3.2.
SNMP Enhancements
RMON Support
The ONS 15454 features Remote Monitoring (RMON), allowing network operators to monitor the health of the network with a Network Management System (NMS).
New Ethernet Threshold Variables
The following Ethernet Threshold variables can now be provisioned in CTC.
ReceivePauseFrames—Number of received 802.x pause frames
TransmitPauseFrames—Number of transmitted 802.x pause frames
ReceivePktsDroppedInternalCongestion—Number of received frames dropped due to frame buffer overflow (or other reasons)
TransmitPktsDroppedInternalCongestion—Number of frames dropped in the transmit direction due to frame buffer overflow (or other reasons)
TL1
Enhancements
For detailed information on TL1 support of new features in Release 3.2, refer to Cisco ONS 15454 TL1 Command Guide, Release 3.2.
TL1 General Support for the G1000 Card
Card provisioning, facility provisioning, alarm/event reporting and retrieval, cross-connect
provisioning, and loopback have been added to the TL1 interface to support the G1000-4 card.
Commands and Autonomous Messages Enhanced to Support the G1000-4 Card
The following commands/autonomous messages have been enhanced to support the G1000-4 card.
All existing <MOD2_IO> commands:
OPR-LPBK-<MOD2_IO>
RLS-LPBK-<MOD2_IO>
All existing <MOD_PORT> commands:
RMV-<MOD_PORT>
RST-<MOD_PORT>
All existing <MOD2ALM> commands/messages:
RTRV-ALM-<MOD2ALM>
RTRV-COND-<MOD2ALM>
REPT ALM <MOD2ALM>
REPT EVT <MOD2ALM>
Enhanced Cross-Connect Commands to Support the FAC AID for the G1000-4
The following cross-connect commands have been added to support the new facility AID for the G1000-4.
ENT-CRS-<STS_PATH>
DLT-CRS-<STS_PATH>
RTRV-CRS-<STS_PATH>
ED-<STS_PATH>
RTRV-PTHTRC-<STS_PATH>
RTRV-<STS_PATH>
OPR-PROTNSW-<STS_PATH>
RLS-PROTNSW-<STS_PATH>
Password Enforcement
In accordance with Telcordia GR-815, TL1 functionality for Release 3.2 enforces password complexity as follows.
ONS 15454 TL1 enforces password complexity for TL1 and users. This rule only applies for new or changed passwords after Release 3.2 is installed; existing passwords do not need to be changed. A new password must have at least 1 numeric character (0 to 9) and at least one special character from the character set {plus-sign (+), pound-sign (#), percent-sign (%)}.
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New Commands
The following TL1 commands are new in Release 3.2.
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The following TL1 parameters are new in the Condition table (new conditions) for Release 3.2:
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RFLOWCTL — Ether (G1000) Rx excess flow control
ROVERSUB — Ether (G1000) Rx oversubscribed
TFLOWCTL — Ether (G1000) Tx excess flow control
TOVERSUB — Ether (G1000) Tx oversubscribed
TPTFAIL — Ether (G1000) transport failure
TUNDERRUN — Ether (G1000) Tx under run
Changed Conditions
The following condition has changed in Release 3.2.
The FAIL_DS3_NE_FRM_MISMATCH condition is renamed to DS3-MISM.
New Alarm
The following TL1 alarm object is new in Release 3.2:
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Related Documentation
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Obtaining Documentation
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World Wide Web
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Ordering Documentation
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Obtaining Technical Assistance
Cisco provides Cisco.com as a starting point for all technical assistance. Customers and partners can obtain documentation, troubleshooting tips, and sample configurations from online tools. For Cisco.com registered users, additional troubleshooting tools are available from the TAC website.
Cisco.com
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Cisco.com provides a broad range of features and services to help customers and partners streamline business processes and improve productivity. Through Cisco.com, you can find information about Cisco and our networking solutions, services, and programs. In addition, you can resolve technical issues with online technical support, download and test software packages, and order Cisco learning materials and merchandise. Valuable online skill assessment, training, and certification programs are also available.
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Contacting TAC by Using the Cisco TAC Website
If you have a priority level 3 (P3) or priority level 4 (P4) problem, contact TAC by going to the TAC website:
P3 and P4 level problems are defined as follows:
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In each of the above cases, use the Cisco TAC website to quickly find answers to your questions.
To register for Cisco.com, go to the following website:
http://www.cisco.com/register/
If you cannot resolve your technical issue by using the TAC online resources, Cisco.com registered users can open a case online by using the TAC Case Open tool at the following website:
http://www.cisco.com/tac/caseopen
Contacting TAC by Telephone
If you have a priority level 1 (P1) or priority level 2 (P2) problem, contact TAC by telephone and immediately open a case. To obtain a directory of toll-free numbers for your country, go to the following website:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/687/Directory/DirTAC.shtml
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