Cuda 12000 IP Access Switch CLI-based Administration Guide
Configuring and Viewing SONET Alarms 133
Configuring POS Alarm Reporting

You can configure reporting of 12 different POS alarms. To do so, perform

the following tasks within interface pos <c/s/i> mode:

Alarm Report Description Command
Line Alarm Indication
Signal (LAIS) Disabled by default, configures the
interface to report line alarm indication
signal errors.
■To enable reporting:
pos report lais
■To disable reporting:
no pos report lais
Line Remote Defect
Indication (LRDI)
Disabled by default, configures the
interface to report line remote defect
indication errors.
■To enable reporting:
pos report lrdi
■To disable reporting:
no pos report lrdi
Path Alarm Indication
Signal (PAIS) Disabled by default, configures the
system to report path alarm indicati on
signal errors. Line terminating
equipment (LTE) send packet alarm
indication signals to alert downstream
path terminating equipment (PTE) of
defects on their incoming line signal.
■To enable reporting:
pos report pais
■To disable reporting:
no pos report pais
Path Loss of Pointer
(PLOP) Enabled by default, configures the
interface to report path loss of pointer
errors. A PLOP error may result from an
invalid pointer or too many new data
flag enabled indications.
■To enable reporting:
pos report plop
■To disable reporting:
no pos report plop
Path Remote Defect
Indication (PRDI) Disabled by default, configures the
interface to report path remote defect
indication errors.
■To enable reporting:
pos report prdi
■To disable reporting:
no pos report prdi
B2 Signal Degrade (SD) Disabled by default, configures the
interface to report when the B2 signal
degrades enough to meet or cross a
specified Bit Error Rate (BER) threshold.
The default BER threshold for B2 signal
failure is 10-6.
■To enable reporting:
pos report sd-ber
■To disable reporting:
no pos report sd-ber
■To set the B2 Signal Degrade
threshold:
pos threshold sd-ber <number>