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Cisco BTS 10200 Softswitch Operations and Maintenance Guide, Release 6.0.x
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Chapter 3 Monitoring and Backing Up the BTS
Log Archive Facility (LAF)
Other Capabilities
This section lists the additional capabilities of the LAF process.
It performs disk space management when 90% of the disk space quota specified for the target
directory is reached.
It gracefully recovers from any abnormal conditions and re-initiates the process to continue the
transfer of files.
It generates alarms when any unsuccessful scenarios are encountered. These alarms are listed in the
Cisco BTS 10200 Troubleshooting Guide.
Provisioning LAF
Caution The values provided by the user for the following parameters will be written into /etc/opticall.cfg file
and transported to all the four BTS 10200 nodes.
The following parameters are associated with the LAF process. If they are left blank, the LAF process
for a particular platform (such as, CA, FSPTC, FSAIN) is turned off.
To use this feature, you must provision the following parameters with the external archive system, the
target directory, and the disk quota (in GB) for each platform.
CAxxx_LAF_PARAMETER
FSPTCxxx_LAF_PARAMETER
FSAINxxx_LAF_PARAMETER
Note that xxx must be replaced with each platform’s instance number.

Example 1

CA146_LAF_PARAMETER="yensid /CA146_trace_log 20"

Example 2

FSPTC235_LAF_PARAMETER="yensid /FSPTC235_trace_log 20"

Example 3

FSAIN205_LAF_PARAMETER="yensid /FSAIN205_trace_log 20"
To enable Log Archive Facility (LAF) process, refer to Enabling LAF Process section.
Enabling LAF Process
To enable the Log Archive Facility (LAF) feature, you must set up the authorization for non-interactive
SSH login to the external archive server for the Cisco BTS 10200 system to access and turn the LAF
processes to active state. (Immediately after the fresh installation and platform start, the LAF process is
in a dormant state).