Chapter 14 Managing the LECS

Setting priority level for a resilient LECS

You can rig the election of a resilient LECS, by placing it on a higher priority level than other LECSes. The higher the priority assigned to a resilient LECS, the better the chances of it winning the election. By default all resilient LECSes when created are assigned a priority of 128.

Avaya recommends that you set the priority of one of the resilient LECS to have a higher priority than the others. This will ensure that this LECS will be elected as the active LECS.

You can stop a resilient LECS being elected by assigning it a priority of zero. This enables you to configure the LANE services on a switch that is hosting a resilient LECS, without the possibility of the LECS becoming active.

Changing the priority of a LECS will trigger a new election process and the LECS with the highest priority will be elected. If two or more LECSes have the same priority level then the LECS with the higher ATM address will be elected.

Note: If the network is recovering from a network failure, the election process is different. The resilient LECS with the highest up-time will remain the active LECS. This is to minimize network disruption.

To change the priority of the local LECS, use the lane lecs priority command:

Command: M15-155s8:/>lane lecs priority <priority>

Parameters: <priority> Indicates the level of priority assigned to the resilient LECS during the election process.

0- LECS candidate is not available for election.

1- Lowest priority that can be assigned to a LECS.

128- Default priority assigned to a LECS.

255- Highest priority that can be assigned to a LECS. This will guarantee that the LECS will be elected.

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M770 specifications

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