Configuring APS
160 Avidia System Configuration and Management User Manual
Parameters
<slot>
The slot number containing the OC3 card for which you want to issue a manual APS
command.
<(prot2workready|prot2work|work2prot|lockout|clear>
The command you want to issue.
•prot2workready—switches traffic to the working channel if there are not other
conditions (such as the configured Wait To Revert Time or a failure condition) that
prohibit switching to that channel.
•prot2work—switches the traffic to the working channel.
•work2prot—switches the traffic to the protection channel.
•lockout—disables APS.
•clear—clears any of the previous APS commands and resumes the configured APS
operation.
Example
::aps=> command 2 prot2work
Displaying APS Configuration
To verify your APS configuration, from the ::aps=> prompt, type the show command as
follows then press .
show [<slot>]
Parameter
[<slot>]
The slot number for which you want to display the APS configuration. Omitting this
parameter displays the APS configuration for all slots.
ENTER