Table Of Contents
Manage Circuits
Before You Begin
NTP-75 Locate and View Circuits
DLP-131 Search for Circuits
DLP-132 View Circuits on a Span
NTP-76 Modify Circuit Characteristics
DLP-133 Edit a Circuit Name
DLP-134 Change Active and Standby Span Color
DLP-135 Edit a UPSR Circuit
NTP-77 Delete Circuits
NTP-78 Create a Monitor Circuit
NTP-79 Create a J1 Path Trace
DLP-136 Provision Path Trace on Circuit Source and Destination Ports
DLP-137 Provision Path Trace on OC-N Ports
Manage Circuits
This chapter explains how to manage Cisco ONS 15454 electrical, optical and Ethernet circuits.
Before You Begin
To create circuits, see "Create Circuits and VT Tunnels."
To clear any alarm or trouble conditions, refer to the Cisco ONS 15454 Troubleshooting Guide.
This section lists the chapter procedures (NTPs). Turn to a procedure for applicable tasks (DLPs).
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NTP-75 Locate and View Circuits—Complete as needed.
2. NTP-76 Modify Circuit Characteristics—Complete as needed to edit a circuit name, change the active and standby colors of spans, or change signal fail, signal degrade thresholds, reversion time, and PDI-P settings for UPSR circuits.
3. NTP-77 Delete Circuits—Complete as needed.
4. NTP-78 Create a Monitor Circuit—Complete as needed to monitor traffic on primary bidirectional circuits.
5. NTP-79 Create a J1 Path Trace—Complete as needed to monitor interruptions or changes to circuit traffic.
NTP-75 Locate and View Circuits
Purpose
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This procedure provides tasks that you can use to locate and view ONS 15454 circuits.
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Tools/Equipment
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None
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Prerequisite Procedures
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Circuit creation procedure(s) in "Create Circuits and VT Tunnels"
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Required/As Needed
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As needed
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Onsite/Remote
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Onsite or remote
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Step 1 Log into the network where you want to view the circuits. See the "DLP-60 Log into CTC" task for instructions.
Step 2 To search for a circuit, go to the "DLP-131 Search for Circuits" task.
Step 3 To view circuits on a span, go to the "DLP-132 View Circuits on a Span" task.
Step 4 Turn to the table of contents, list of procedures, or index to locate any other procedures that you need to perform for your site.
DLP-131 Search for Circuits
Purpose
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Use this task to search for an ONS 15454 circuit at the network, node, or card level.
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Tools/Equipment
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None
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Prerequisite Procedures
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DLP-60 Log into CTC
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Required/As Needed
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As needed
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Onsite/Remote
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Onsite or remote
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Step 1 Switch to the appropriate CTC view:
•To search the entire network, from the View menu, choose Go to Network View.
•To search for circuits that originate, terminate, or pass through a specific node, from the View menu, choose Go to Other Node, then choose the node you want to search and click OK.
•To search for circuits that originate, terminate, or pass through a specific card, switch to node view, then double-click the card on the shelf graphic to display the card in card view.
Step 2 Click the Circuits tab.
Step 3 If you are in node or card view, choose the scope for the search in the Scope drop-down menu.
Step 4 Click Search.
Step 5 In the Circuit Name Search dialog box, complete the following:
•Find What—Enter the text of the circuit name you want to find.
•Match Whole Word Only—Check this box to instruct CTC to select circuits only if the entire word matches the text in the Find What field.
•Match Case—Check this box to instruct CTC to select circuits only when the capitalization matches the capitalization entered in the Find What field.
•Direction—Choose the direction for the search. Searches are conducted up or down from the currently selected circuit.
Step 6 Click Find Next. If a match is found, click Find Next again to find the next circuit.
Step 7 Repeat Steps 5- 6 until you are finished, then click Cancel.
Step 8 Return to your originating procedure (NTP).
DLP-132 View Circuits on a Span
Purpose
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View circuits on an ONS 15454 span.
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Tools/Equipment
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None
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Prerequisite Procedures
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DLP-60 Log into CTC
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Required/As Needed
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As needed
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Onsite/Remote
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Onsite or remote
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Step 1 Log into an ONS 15454 on the network whose circuits you wanto to view. See the "DLP-60 Log into CTC" task for instructions.
Step 2 From the View menu, choose Go to Network View.
Step 3 Place your mouse cursor directly over a span (green line), press the right mouse button, and choose Circuits from the shortcut menu.
On the Circuits on Span dialog box, you can view the following information for all circuits provisioned on the span:
•STS—STSs used by the circuits
•VT—VTs used by the circuits (VT circuits)
•UPSR—Indicates whether the circuit is on a UPSR
•Circuit—Displays the circuit name
•Switch State—Displays the switch state of the circuit, that is, whether any span switches are active. For UPSR spans, switch types include: CLEAR (no spans are switched), MANUAL (a manual switch is active), FORCE (a force switch is active), and LOCKOUT OF PROTECTION (a span lockout is active).
Note You can perform other procedures from the Circuits on Span dialog box. If the span is in a UPSR, you can switch the span traffic. See "DLP-94 UPSR Protection Switching Test" task on page 5-29 for instructions. If you want to edit a circuit on the span, double-click the circuit. See the "DLP-133 Edit a Circuit Name" task or the "DLP-135 Edit a UPSR Circuit" task for instructions.
Step 4 Return to your originating procedure (NTP).
NTP-76 Modify Circuit Characteristics
Purpose
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This procedure provides tasks that you can use to edit or change the properties of ONS 15454 circuits.
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Tools/Equipment
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None
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Prerequisite Procedures
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Circuits must exist on the network. See "Create Circuits and VT Tunnels" for circuit creation procedures.
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Required/As Needed
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As needed
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Onsite/Remote
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Onsite or remote
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Step 1 Log into the network containing the circuit you want to modify. See the "DLP-60 Log into CTC" task for instructions.
Step 2 To edit a circuit name, go to the "DLP-133 Edit a Circuit Name" task.
Step 3 To change the active and standby span colors of circuits displayed on the Edit Circuit window, go to the "DLP-134 Change Active and Standby Span Color" task.
Step 4 To edit a UPSR circuit, go to the "DLP-135 Edit a UPSR Circuit" task.
Step 5 Turn to the table of contents, list of procedures, or index to locate any other procedures that you need to perform for your site.
DLP-133 Edit a Circuit Name
Purpose
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Use this task to edit a circuit name.
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Tools/Equipment
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None
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Prerequisite Procedures
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DLP-60 Log into CTC
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Required/As Needed
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As needed
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Onsite/Remote
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Onsite or remote
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Step 1 Click the Circuits tab.
Step 2 Click the circuit you want to rename, then click Edit.
Step 3 In the Name field, highlight the circuit name (click three times to highlight the complete name).
Step 4 Edit or rename the circuit. Names can be up to 48 alphanumeric and/or special characters. However, if you will ever create a monitor circuit on this circuit, do not make the name longer than 44 characters because monitor circuits will add "_MON" (four characters) to the circuit name.
Step 5 Click the Apply button.
Step 6 Click the Close button to close the Edit Circuit window.
Step 7 On the Circuits window, verify that the circuit was correctly renamed.
Step 8 Return to your originating procedure (NTP).
DLP-134 Change Active and Standby Span Color
Purpose
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Use this task to change the color of active and standby circuit spans as displayed on the Edit Circuits window.
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Tools/Equipment
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None
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Prerequisite Procedures
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DLP-60 Log into CTC
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Required/As Needed
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As needed
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Onsite/Remote
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Onsite or remote
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Step 1 From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
Step 2 On the Preferences dialog box, click the Circuits tab.
Step 3 To change the color of the active span:
a. Next to Active Span Color, click the Color button.
b. On the Pick a Color dialog box, click the color for the active span, or click the Reset button if you want the active span to display the last applied (saved) color.
c. If you want to change the standby span color, go to Step 4. If you do not want to change the standby color, click Apply and click OK to close the Preferences dialog box.
Step 4 To change the color of the standby span:
a. Next to Standby Span Color, click the Color button.
b. On the Pick a Color dialog box, click the color for the standby span, or click the Reset button if you want the standby span to display the last applied (saved) color.
c. Click Apply and click OK to close the Preferences dialog box.
Step 5 If you want to return the active and standby spans to their default colors:
a. From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
b. On the Preferences dialog box, click the Circuits tab.
c. Click the Reset to Defaults button.
d. Click Apply and click OK to close the Preferences dialog box.
Step 6 Return to your originating procedure (NTP).
DLP-135 Edit a UPSR Circuit
Purpose
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Use this task to change the UPSR signal fail and signal degrade thresholds, the reversion time and PDI-P settings. You also use the task to switch UPSR traffic.
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Tools/Equipment
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None
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Prerequisite Procedures
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NTP-44 Provision the UPSR Nodes, page 5-26
DLP-60 Log into CTC
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Required/As Needed
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As needed
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Onsite/Remote
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Onsite or remote
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Step 1 Click the Circuits tab.
Step 2 Click the circuit you want to edit, then click the Edit button.
Step 3 On the Edit Circuit window, click the UPSR Selectors tab.
Note The UPSR Selectors tab is only available when the circuit is in Active state.
Step 4 Edit the following UPSR selectors, as needed:
•Revert Time—Controls whether traffic reverts to the working path when conditions that diverted it to the protect path are repaired. If you choose Never, traffic does not revert. Choosing a time sets the amount of time that will elapse before traffic reverts to the working path.
•SF Ber Level—Sets the UPSR signal failure BER threshold (STS circuits only).
•SD Ber Level—Sets the UPSR signal degrade BER threshold (STS circuits only).
•PDI-P—When checked, traffic switches if an STS payload defect indication is received (STS circuits only).
•Switch State—Switches circuit traffic between the working and protect paths. The color of the Working Path and Protect Path fields indicates the active path. Normally, the Working Path is green and the Protect Path is purple. If the Protect Path is green, working traffic has switched to the Protect Path.
CLEAR—Removes a previously-set switch command.
LOCKOUT OF PROTECT—Prevents traffic from switching to the protect circuit path under any circumstances. Of all switch states, LOCKOUT has the highest priority.
FORCE TO WORKING—Forces traffic to switch to the working circuit path, even if the path has signal degrade (SD) or signal failure (SF) conditions. FORCE switch states have a higher priority than MANUAL switch.
FORCE TO PROTECT—Forces traffic to switch to the protect circuit path, even if the path has signal degrade (SD) or signal failure (SF) conditions. FORCE switch states have a higher priority than MANUAL switch.
MANUAL TO WORKING—Switches traffic to the working circuit path if the path has an error rate less than the signal degrade.
MANUAL TO PROTECT—Switches traffic to the protect circuit path if the path has an error rate less than the signal degrade.
Caution The FORCE and LOCKOUT commands override normal protection switching mechanisms. Applying these commands incorrectly can cause traffic outages.
Step 5 Click Apply, then check that the selector switches are displayed as you expect.
Figure 9-1 Editing UPSR selectors
Step 6 Return to your originating procedure (NTP).
NTP-77 Delete Circuits
Purpose
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Use this task to delete circuits.
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Tools/Equipment
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None
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Prerequisite Procedures
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Circuits must exist on the network. See "Create Circuits and VT Tunnels" for circuit creation procedures.
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Required/As Needed
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As needed
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Onsite/Remote
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Onsite or remote
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Step 1 Log into an ONS 15454 node on the network where you want to delete the circuit. See the "DLP-60 Log into CTC" task for instructions.
Step 2 Complete the "NTP-108 Back Up the Database" task on page 15-6 for instructions.
Step 3 Investigate all network alarms and resolve any problems that may be affected by the circuit deletion. Refer to the Alarm Troublehooting chapter in the Cisco ONS 15454 Troublshooting Guide.
Step 4 Verify that traffic is no longer carried on the circuit, and the circuit can be safely deleted.
Step 5 Click the Circuits tab.
Step 6 Choose the circuit you want to delete, then click Delete.
Step 7 Click Yes to confirm the deletion.
Step 8 On the Circuit Deletion Result window, click OK to acknowledge the circuit deletion.
Step 9 Perform a database backup. See the "NTP-108 Back Up the Database" task on page 15-6 for instructions.
Step 10 Turn to the table of contents, list of procedures, or index to locate any other procedures that you need to perform for your site.
NTP-78 Create a Monitor Circuit
Note Monitor circuits cannot be used with EtherSwitch circuits.
Note For unidirectional circuits, create a drop to the port where the test equipment is attached.
Purpose
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Use this task to create a monitor circuit that monitors traffic on primary, bidirectional circuits.
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Tools/Equipment
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None
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Prerequisite Procedures
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Circuits must exist on the network. See "Create Circuits and VT Tunnels" for circuit creation procedures.
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Required/As Needed
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As needed
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Onsite/Remote
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Onsite or remote
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Step 1 Log into an ONS 15454 node on the network where you will create the monitor circuit. See the "DLP-60 Log into CTC" task for instructions.
Step 2 Click the Circuits tab.
Step 3 Choose the bidirectional circuit that you want to monitor (this circuit is marked as 2-Way in the Dir column). If the circuit you want to monitor is not displayed, choose Network on the Scope drop-down menu.
Step 4 Click Edit.
Step 5 Verify that the circuit name is no more than 44 characters (monitor circuits append a "_MON" to the circuit name). If the name is longer than 44 characters, perform Steps a- c, and then proceed to Step 6:
a. In the name field, highlight the circuit name (click three times to highlight the complete name).
b. Edit the circuit name.
c. Click the Apply button
Step 6 On the Edit Circuit dialog box, click the Monitors tab.
The Monitors tab displays ports that you can use to monitor the circuit selected in Step 3.
Note The Monitor tab is only available when the circuit is in Active state.
Step 7 On the Monitors tab, choose a port. The monitor circuit displays traffic coming into the node at the card/port you choose.
Note In Figure 9-2, you would choose either the DS1-14 card (to test circuit traffic entering Node 2 on the DS1-14) or the OC-N card at Node 1 (to test circuit traffic entering Node 1 on the OC-N card).
Step 8 Click Create Monitor Circuit.
Step 9 On the Circuit Creation dialog box, choose the destination node, slot, port, STS, VT or DS1 for the monitored circuit.
Note In the Figure 9-2 example, this is Port 2 on the EC1-12 card.
Step 10 Click Next.
Step 11 On the confirmation dialog box, review the monitor circuit information. Click Finish.
Step 12 On the Edit Circuit dialog box, click Close. The new monitor circuit displays on the Circuits tab.
Figure 9-2 shows a sample monitor circuit setup. VT1.5 traffic is received by Port 1 of the EC1-12 card at Node 1. To monitor the VT1.5 traffic, test equipment is plugged into Port 2 of the EC1-12 card and a monitor circuit to Port 2 is provisioned in CTC. (Circuit monitors are one-way.) This procedure assumes circuits have been created.
Figure 9-2 A VT1.5 monitor circuit received at an EC1-12 port
Step 13 Turn to the table of contents, list of procedures, or index to locate any other procedures that you need to perform for your site.
NTP-79 Create a J1 Path Trace
Purpose
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Use this procedure to create a repeated, fixed-length string of characters used to monitor interruptions or changes to circuit traffic.
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Tools/Equipment
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ONS 15454 cards capable of transmitting and/or receiving path trace must be installed. See Table 9-1 for a list of cards.
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Prerequisite Procedures
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Path trace can only be provisioned on OC-N (STS) circuits. See "Create Circuits and VT Tunnels" for OC-N circuit creation procedures.
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Required/As Needed
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As needed
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Onsite/Remote
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Onsite or remote
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Step 1 Log into the node on the network where you will create the path trace. See the "DLP-60 Log into CTC" task for instructions.
Step 2 Complete the "DLP-136 Provision Path Trace on Circuit Source and Destination Ports" task for instructions.
Step 3 Complete the "DLP-137 Provision Path Trace on OC-N Ports" task.
Step 4 Turn to the table of contents, list of procedures, or index to locate any other procedures that you need to perform for your site.
DLP-136 Provision Path Trace on Circuit Source and Destination Ports
Purpose
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Use this task to create a path trace on an STS circuit source and destination ports.
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Tools/Equipment
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ONS 15454 cards capable of transmitting and receiving path trace must be installed at the circuit source and destination ports. See Table 9-1 for a list of cards.
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Prerequisite Procedures
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DLP-60 Log into CTC
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Required/As Needed
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As needed
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Onsite/Remote
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Onsite or remote
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Note This procedure assumes you are setting up path trace on a bidirectional circuit, and you will set transmit strings at the circuit source and destination.
Step 1 Click the Circuits tab.
Step 2 For the STS circuit you want to monitor, verify that the source and destination ports are on a card that can transmit and receive the path trace string. See Table 9-1 for a list of cards.
Table 9-1 ONS 15454 Cards Capable of Path Trace
J1 Function
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Cards
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Transmit and Receive
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DS1-14, DS1N-14,
DS3-12E, DS3N-12E, DS3XM-6,
G1000-4
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Receive Only
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EC1-12
OC3 IR 4 1310
OC12/STM4-4
OC48 IR/STM16 SH AS 1310, OC48 LR/STM16 LH AS 1550
OC192 LR/STM64 LH 1550
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If neither port is on a transmit/receive card, you will not be able to complete this procedure. If one port is on a transmit/receive card and the other on a receive-only card, you can set up the transmit string at the transmit/receive port and the receive string at the receive-only port, but you will not be able to transmit in both directions.
Step 3 Choose the STS circuit you want to trace, then click Edit.
Step 4 On the Edit Circuit window, click the Show Detailed Map box at the bottom of the window. A detailed map of the source and destination ports is displayed.
Step 5 Provision the circuit source transmit string:
a. On the detailed circuit map right-click the circuit source port (square on the left or right of the source node icon) and choose Edit Path Trace (Port) from the shortcut menu. Figure 9-3 shows an example.
Figure 9-3 Selecting the Edit Path Trace option
b. In the New Transmit String field, enter the circuit source transmit string. Enter a string that makes the source port easy to identify, such as node IP address, node name, circuit name, or another string. If the New Transmit String field is left blank, the J1 transmits a string of null characters.
c. Click Apply, then click Close.
Step 6 Provision the circuit destination transmit string:
a. On the Edit Circuit window (with Show Detailed Map chosen, see Figure 9-3) right-click the circuit destination port and choose Edit Path Trace (Port) from the shortcut menu.
b. In the New Transmit String field, enter the string that you want the circuit destination to transmit. Enter a string that makes the destination port easy to identify, such as node IP address, node name, circuit name, or another string. If the New Transmit String field is left blank, the J1 transmits a string of null characters.
c. Click Apply.
Step 7 Provision the circuit destination expected string:
a. On the Circuit Path Trace window, enable the path trace expected string by choosing Auto or Manual from the Path Trace Mode drop-down menu:
–Auto—the first string received from the source port is the baseline. An alarm is raised when a string that differs from the baseline is received.
–Manual—the string entered in Current Expected String is the baseline. An alarm is raised when a string that differs from the Current Expected String is received.
b. If you set Path Trace Mode to Manual, enter the string that the circuit destination should receive from the circuit source in the New Expected String field. If you set Path Trace Mode to Auto, skip this step.
c. Click the Disable AIS on TIM-P checkbox if you want to suppress the Alarm Indication Signal when the STS Path Trace Identifier Mismatch Path (TIM-P) alarm is displayed. Refer to the Cisco ONS 15454 Troubleshooting Guide for descriptions of alarms and conditions.
Note RDI (Remote Defect Indicator) conditions on TIM-P are not generated in this release.
d. Click Apply, then click Close.
Step 8 Provision the circuit source expected string:
a. On the Edit Circuit window (with Show Detailed Map chosen, see Figure 9-3) right-click the circuit source port and choose Edit Path Trace (Port) from the shortcut menu.
b. On the Circuit Path Trace window, enable the path trace expected string by choosing Auto or Manual from the Path Trace Mode drop-down menu:
–Auto—Uses the first string received from port at the other end as the baseline string. An alarm is raised when a string that differs from the baseline is received.
–Manual—Uses the Current Expected String field as the baseline string. An alarm is raised when a string that differs from the Current Expected String is received.
c. If you set Path Trace Mode to Manual, enter the string that the circuit source should receive from the circuit destination in the New Expected String field. If you set Path Trace Mode to Auto, skip this step.
d. Click the Disable AIS on TIM-P checkbox if you want to suppress the Alarm Indication Signal when the STS Path Trace Identifier Mismatch Path (TIM-P) alarm is displayed. Refer to the Cisco ONS 15454 Troubleshooting Guide for descriptions of alarms and conditions.
e. Click Apply.
Step 9 After you set up the path trace, the received string is displayed in the Received box on the path trace setup window. Figure 9-4 shows an example. The following options are available:
•Click Switch Mode to toggle between ASCII and hexadecimal display.
•Click the Reset button to reread values from the port.
•Click Default to return to the path trace default settings (Path Trace Mode is set to Off and the New Transmit and New Expected Strings are null).
Caution Clicking Default will generate alarms if the port on the other end is provisioned with a different string.
The Expect and Receive strings are updated every few seconds as long as Path Trace Mode is set to Auto or Manual.
Step 10 Click Close.
When you display the detailed circuit window, path trace is indicated by an M (manual path trace) or an A (automatic path trace) at the circuit source and destination ports. Figure 9-5 shows an example.
Figure 9-4 Setting up a path trace
Figure 9-5 Detailed circuit window with Manual expected string enabled
Step 11 Return to your originating procedure (NTP).
DLP-137 Provision Path Trace on OC-N Ports
Step 1 Log into the node on the network where path trace was provisioned on the circuit source and destination ports. See the "DLP-60 Log into CTC" task for instructions.
Step 2 Click Circuits.
Step 3 Choose the STS circuit that has path trace provisioned on the source and destination ports, then click Edit.
Step 4 On the Edit Circuit window, click the Show Detailed Map box at the bottom of the window. A detailed circuit graphic showing source and destination ports is displayed.
Step 5 On the detailed circuit map right-click the circuit OC-N port (square on the left or right of the source node icon) and choose Edit Path Trace (Port) from the shortcut menu.
Note The OC-N port must be on a receive-only card listed in Table 9-1. If not, the Edit Path Trace (Port) menu item will not display.
Step 6 On the Circuit Path Trace window, enable the path trace expected string by choosing Auto or Manual from the Path Trace Mode drop-down menu:
•Auto—Uses the first string received from port at the other end as the baseline string. An alarm is raised when a string that differs from the baseline is received. For OC-N ports, Auto is recommended, since Manual mode requires you to trace the circuit on the Edit Circuit window to determine whether the port is the source or destination path.
•Manual—Uses the Current Expected String field as the baseline string. An alarm is raised when a string that differs from the Current Expected String is received.
Step 7 If you set Path Trace Mode to Manual, enter the string that the OC-N port should receive in the New Expected String field. To do this, trace the circuit path on the detailed circuit window to determine whether the port is in the circuit source or destination path, then set the New Expected String to the string transmitted by the circuit source or destination. If you set Path Trace Mode to Auto, skip this step.
Step 8 Click the Disable AIS on TIM-P checkbox if you want to suppress the Alarm Indication Signal when the STS Path Trace Identifier Mismatch Path (TIM-P) alarm is displayed. Refer to the Cisco ONS 15454 Troubleshooting Guide for descriptions of alarms and conditions.
Step 9 Click Apply, then click Close.
Step 10 Return to your originating procedure (NTP).
