Chapter 3 Monitoring and Backing Up the BTS

Checking BTS System Health

Partitions consumed:

A partition 70 percent consumed generates a minor alarm.

A partition 80 percent consumed generates a major alarm.

A partition 90 percent consumed generates a critical alarm.

Table 3-1 Managing Hardware

Task

Sample Command

 

 

 

 

Running node reports

report node node=prica42;

 

 

Note Results may take a few minutes to display.

 

 

 

 

Viewing nodes

status node node=prica42;

 

 

 

 

Rebooting the host machines

control node node=prica42; action=REBOOT;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caution Use this command with extreme caution.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Setting the host machine for

control node node=prica42; action=HALT;

 

maintenance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caution Use local consoleaccess or a power cycle to restart the

 

 

 

 

 

node.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Checking BTS System Health

Do the following tasks as listed or more frequently if your system administrator recommends it.

.

 

 

 

 

Table 3-2

BTS System Health Checklist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tasks

 

Frequency

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moving Core Files

as alarms are

 

 

 

 

 

 

receieved

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using BTS System-Health Reports

Daily

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Checking BTS System Time

Daily

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Checking Traffic Measurements

Daily

 

 

 

 

 

See Chapter 6, “Using Measurements.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Checking Event and Alarm Reports

Daily

 

 

 

 

 

See Cisco BTS 10200 Softswitch Troubleshooting Guide, Release 6.0.1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Checking the OS Log of Each Host Machine

Daily

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Backing up the EMS Database

Daily

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Checking Disk Mirroring on Each Host Machine

Weekly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cisco BTS 10200 Softswitch Operations and Maintenance Guide, Release 6.0.x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3-2

 

 

 

 

OL-16000-07

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Page 34
Image 34
Cisco Systems 10200 manual Checking BTS System Health, Tasks Frequency