Checking and Powering-Up

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Checking and Powering-Up

BPX Switch Startup Diagnostic

Provisioning the BPX Switch

Checking and Powering-Up

This chapter explains how to check that you are ready and then perform the initial power-up.

Before proceeding to this chapter, you should first complete the procedures in:

• "Connecting Temporary Terminal and Attaching Peripherals"

• "Connecting Cables"

• Chapter 13, "Installing the BPX Switch Cards"

and before that, the procedures in either:

• "Installing the DC Shelf"

• "Installing the AC Shelf"

and

• "Installing the T3/E3 Cable Management Tray"

and before that, the procedures in either:

• "Installation with Cisco Cabinets including 7000 Series Routers"

or

• "Installation in Customer Cabinet"

Before operating the BPX switch, verify that the following procedures have been performed:

Step 1 The BPX switch is connected to an appropriate power source with an isolated ground connection, according to the procedures in "Installing the DC Shelf" or "Installing the AC Shelf," as applicable.

Step 2 The BPX switch power cord is plugged into an appropriate power outlet.

Step 3 The full complement of cards for the specific node are mounted in the correct slots, correctly seated, and locked in place.

Step 4 The T3 or E3 connections are attached appropriately.

Step 5 A control terminal (or Cisco WAN Manager Work Station) is connected to the CONTROL port on the LM-BCC in back slot 7/8, and the terminal's power cord plugged into the appropriate voltage wall outlet.

Step 6 If desired, a printer is connected to the AUXILIARY port on the LM-BCC in back slot 7/8 and the printer power cord is plugged into the appropriate power outlet.

Step 7 If desired, modems are connected to the CONTROL port or AUXILIARY port, as applicable, on the LM-BCC in back slot 7/8, and the modem power cords plugged into the appropriate power wall outlet.

After completing the preceding checklist, power up the BPX switch by using the following procedure:

Step 1 From the back of the BPX switch, turn the power switches to the ON position.

Step 2 From the front of the BPX switch, observe the cards go through initial diagnostic self-tests.

•The AC power supply's -48V indicator is on.

•The standby BCCs red "FAIL" light flashes until self-testing and configuration updates are completed. The other BCC becomes active immediately, but also performs self-testing and configuration updating. The entire process may take several minutes to complete.

•The remaining cards show "FAIL" for a few seconds, then become active or standby.

•The ASM DC LEDs are both green, indicating that the DC voltages on the two DC power busses are within tolerance.

•There may be alarms showing on the ASM, BXMs, BMEs, and BNIs.

Alarms can be present on ATM trunk connectors that have not been physically connected to their associated lines.

Note New nodes will not have any configured trunks, lines, or ports; therefore, all cards should be in Standby mode except for one BCC that should be Active.

BPX Switch Startup Diagnostic

The BPX switch software provides a group of diagnostic tests to be run on the system hardware at power-up. The startup diagnostic either passes or fails the BCC(s) tests. The test result is displayed on the screen of a control terminal connected to the control port on the back card in slot 7 of the BPX. A successful power up results in a pass message.

Note On power-up, the BCC in slot 7 is always the active BCC.

If a BCC fails the power-up diagnostic, it will not boot. If that happens, perform the following procedure:

Step 1 Remove the failed BCC from its slot.

Step 2 Reset the BCC in the same slot.

Step 3 Wait for the power-up diagnostic to run.

Step 4 If the BCC fails the power-up diagnostics a second time, replace it with another BCC that is known to have passed the test.

Once the software has successfully booted up, the display (a terminal connected to the control port or an NMS workstation connected via a telnet session to the LAN port) shows the following software screen example:

pubsbpx1 TN No User BPX 15 9.2 Nov. 21 1998 14:15 PST

Enter User ID:

At this point, you may login as a user to the node.

Provisioning the BPX Switch

Provisioning is the general term for configuring ports, lines, trunks, and adding connections to the BPX Switch.

Up to this point, you have used the command line interface (CLI) to perform the installation and power-up. You could use the CLI to perform provisioning also.

However, that is a time-consuming approach for most general provisioning tasks. It is recommended that you use Cisco Network Management, such as the Cisco WAN Manager Workstation and the Cisco graphical WAN Manager and CiscoView applications to configure ports, lines, trunks, and visually interconnect the BPX to your network topology.

For set-up and configuration procedures for Cisco Network Management, see "Configuring Network Management."

For configuration procedures for the BPX switch, see Chapter 17, "Initial BPX 8600 Node Configuration."

For more information, refer to the following manuals:

•Cisco WAN Manager User's Guide

•Cisco MPLS Controller Software Configuration Guide

•Cisco SES PNNI Controller Software Configuration Guide.

•Cisco WAN Switching Command Reference

•Cisco WAN Switching SuperUser Command Reference