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Cisco BTS 10200 Softswitch Operations and Maintenance Guide, Release 6.0.x
OL-16000-06
CHAPTER
3Monitoring and Backing Up the BTS 3-1
Introduction 3-1
Detecting and Preventing BTS Congestion 3-1
Monitoring BTS Hardware 3-1
Checking BTS System Health 3-2
Using BTS System-Health Reports 3-3
Checking BTS System Time 3-4
Checking the OS Log of Each Host Machine 3-4
Checking Disk Mirroring on Each Host Machine 3-5
CA/FS Side A 3-5
CA/FS Side B 3-5
EMS Side A 3-6
EMS Side B 3-6
Auditing Databases and Tables 3-7
Exporting Provisioned Data 3-8
Limitations 3-10
Creating Numbering Resource Utilization/Forecast (NRUF) Reports 3-10
Creating Reports for Nonrural Primary and Intermediate Carriers 3-11
Creating Reports for Rural Primary and Intermediate Carriers 3-12
Backing Up the Software Image 3-15
Full Database Auditing 3-16
Checking Shared Memory 3-16
From CA/FS Side A 3-16
From CA/FS Side B 3-17
Backing Up the Full BTS 3-18
Backing Up the CA/FS 3-18
Backing up the EMS/BDMS 3-19
Backing up the EMS Database 3-20
Using FTP to Setup File Transfer 3-21
Using SFTP to Setup File Transfer 3-22
Archiving Your Database 3-24
Examining Heap Usage 3-25
Checking the DNS Server 3-25
Log Archive Facility (LAF) 3-26
Secure Transfer of Files 3-26
Other Capabilities 3-27
Provisioning LAF 3-27
Enabling LAF Process 3-27
Setup Non-Interactive SSH Login to External Archive Server 3-28