Carrier Access Access Navigator user manual Clear Alarms FDL, Aco, Set alarms critical off

Alarm Clearing

Clear Alarms – FDL

Clear Alarms – FDL

NOTE: The CLI has three alarm levels:

CRITICAL alarms affect service to 128 or more subscribers. (Only the manually set critical alarm is currently defined.)

MAJOR alarms affect service to 24 or more subscribers. MINOR alarms are non-service affecting, but reduce reliability.

1.Start RS-232 or Telnet management session (see Start Management Session on page 7-1).

2.Display all currently active alarms with the following command:

alarms

This will produce an alarm status message similar to the following, showing all currently active alarms:

Time	Date	Severity	Description
----	----	--------	--------------------------
03:11:17	01/09/1999	Major DS1 20		Loss	Of Signal
00:00:17	01/09/1999	Major DS1 19		Loss	Of Signal
00:00:17	01/14/1999	Minor Onboard Power Supply B Failure

3. Operate Alarm Cutoff (ACO) if desired with the following command.

aco

4.If there any Critical alarms, follow trouble clearing procedure in Table 14-1 on page 14-3to clear alarms and then return to Step 2.

5.If there any Major alarms, follow trouble clearing procedure in Table 14-2 on page 14-4to clear alarms and then return to Step 2.

6.If there any Minor alarms, follow trouble clearing procedure in Table 14-3 on page 14-5to clear alarms and then return to Step 2.

7.Continue to monitor alarms for next 30 minutes to ensure that no alarms are reported.

8.If more alarms have been reported, go to Step 2.

9.Return faulty units to repair facility.

Table 14-1 CLI Critical Alarm Message and Trouble Clearing Procedure

Event Message	Description	Trouble Clearing Procedure
Manually set critical	Allows user to set and clear	Use following command to clear
alarm	critical alarm state. LED, relay,	alarm:
	alarm, and event logs follow	set alarms critical off
	setting.

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