ADC Release 3.1 user manual Retrieve Compressed Logs from the Nmic VIA FTP

1152700 • Issue 1 • February 2001 • Section 2 Operation and Maintenance

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RETRIEVE COMPRESSED LOGS FROM THE NMIC VIA FTP

Summary: This procedure outlines the steps involved to compress and then retrieve the log files stored on the NMIC for performance, accounting, and alarm history. Log files are automatically updated every fifteen minutes to the NMIC hard drive and are stored for a 24-hour period. The files can be retrieved via FTP to a remote management workstation and stored indefinitely on user medium (i.e. hard disk, floppy disk, tape backup, etc.). This procedure is based on a standard UNIX FTP program. For other FTP programs, substitute the standard commands with your particular system “command gets”. The retrieved files will be in a compressed format. GZIP or WINZIP will unarchive these files.

It is assumed that the user will be performing backup of some of this data regularly, generally every 24 hours. This procedure also assumes the user has gained access to the NMIC via FTP and has logged on.

Note: Direct access to the files may be entered in one Unix string but for this procedure we will select one file structure at a time to familiarize the user with the Unix file locations. For direct access and FTP of the files, go to step 5.

1.First, establish a TELNET session with the NMIC using the correct IP address for the desired network, or establish a CRAFT session with the RS232 DB9 on the front of the NMIC. A login prompt should appear requiring the user to enter the correct user name and password e.g. userid=root with no password.

2.To access the files scheduled for back up, change to the cellworx directory on the NMIC

•cd /cellworx.

3.Listed under the cellworx directory are files titled “performance”, “alarmHistory”, and “accounting”. The content of the files is as follows:

•Performance – captures all performance monitoring data from each NE in the network every fifteen minutes. Performance data includes error counts and cells discarded for any interface in the node.

•Alarm History – captures all alarm history data for each NE in the network. Alarm history includes any alarm conditions (performance, physical failures, housekeeping, etc.), that have been incurred or cleared during each fifteen-minute log period for each NE in the network.

•Accounting – captures all accounting data for each NE in the network. The largest part of this is NDC (Network Data Collection), which includes ingress cells passed, egress cells passed, etc.

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