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Cisco ONS 15454 Installation and  Operations Guide
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              Hardware Installation
              Software Installation
Node Setup              
IP Networking
SONET Topologies                
Circuits and Tunnels
              Card Provisioning
Performance Monitoring                
Ethernet Operation
              Alarm Monitoring and Management
SNMP            
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              About This Manual 
Audience                
Organization
              Related Documentation
              Conventions
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              Hardware Installation
              1.1   Installation Overview
              1.2   Installation Equipment
              1.2.1  Included Materials
1.2.2  User-Supplied Materials                
1.2.2.1   Tools Needed
1.2.2.2   Test Equipment              
1.3   Rack Installation
              1.3.1  Reversible Mounting Bracket
Procedure: Reverse the Mounting Bracket to Fit a 19-Inch Rack              
1.3.2  Mounting a Single Node
              Procedure: Mount the Shelf Assembly in a Rack (One Person)
Procedure: Mount the Shelf Assembly in a Rack (Two People)              
1.3.3  Mounting Multiple Nodes
Procedure: Mount Multiple Shelf Assemblies in a Rack                
1.3.3.1   Four Node Configuration
              1.3.3.2   ONS 15454 Bay Assembly
              1.4   Front Door Access
              Procedure: Open the Front Cabinet Compartment (Door)
              Procedure: Remove the Front Door
              1.5   Backplane Access
Procedure: Remove the Backplane Sheet Metal Covers              
1.5.1  Lower Backplane Cover
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Procedure: Remove the Lower Backplane Cover
              1.5.2  Alarm Interface Panel
              1.6   EIA Installation
1.6.1  BNC EIA              
1.6.2  High-Density BNC EIA
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1.6.3  SMB EIA
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1.6.4  AMP Champ EIA
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              Procedure: Install a BNC, High-Density BNC, or SMB EIA
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Figure1-17 Installing the High-Density BNC EIA                 
Figure1-18 Installing the SMB EIA (use a balun for DS-1 connections)
              Procedure: Install the AMP Champ EIA
              1.7   Fan-Tray Assembly Installation
              Procedure: Install the Bottom Brackets and Air Filter
              Procedure: Install the Fan-Tray Assembly
              1.8   Power and Ground Installation
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              Procedure: Install Redundant Power Feeds
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Chapter1      Hardware Installation Alarm, Timing, LAN, and Craft Pin Connections
Not Used              
1.9   Alarm, Timing, LAN, and Craft Pin Connections
Caution Always use the supplied ESD wristband when working with a powered ONS 15454. Plug the                 
Figure1-24 Pinouts
              1.9.1  Alarm Installation
Procedure: Install Alarm Wires on the Backplane                
1.9.2  Timing Installation
Procedure: Install Timing Wires on the Backplane              
1.9.3  LAN Installation
Procedure: Install LAN Wires on the Backplane              
1.9.4  TL1 Craft Interface Installation
Procedure: Install Craft Interface Wires on the Backplane              
1.10   Coaxial Cable Installation
1.10.1  BNC Connector Installation                
Procedure: Install Coaxial Cable With BNC Connectors
              1.10.2  High-Density BNC Connector Installation
Procedure: Install Coaxial Cable With High-Density BNC Connectors              
1.10.3  SMB Connector Installation
Procedure: Install Coaxial Cable with SMB Connectors              
1.11   DS-1 Cable Installation
1.11.1  Twisted Pair Wire-Wrap Installation              
Procedure: Install DS-1 Cables Using Electrical Interface Adapters (Balun) 
              1.11.2  AMP Champ Connector Installation
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              Procedure: Install DS-1 AMP Champ Cables on the AMP Champ EIA
              1.12   Card Installation 
              1.12.1  Slot Requirements
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              Procedure: Install the TCC+ and XC/XCVT/XC10G Cards
              Procedure: Install Optical, Electrical, and Ethernet Cards
              Procedure: Install the AIC Card
              1.12.2  Gigabit Interface Converter
Procedure: Install Gigabit Interface Converters            
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Procedure: Remove a Gigabit Interface Converter              
1.13   Fiber-Optic Cable Installation
              Procedure: Install Fiber-Optic Cables on OC-N Cards
Procedure: Install the Fiber Boot              
1.14   Cable Routing and Management
              1.14.1  Optical Cable Management
              Procedure: Route Fiber-Optic Cables in the Shelf Assembly
              1.14.2  Coaxial Cable Management
Procedure: Route the Coaxial Cables              
1.14.3  DS-1 Twisted-Pair Cable Management
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Procedure: Route DS-1 Twisted-Pair Cables
              1.14.4  AMP Champ Cable Management
1.14.5  BIC Rear Cover Installation                
Procedure: Install the BIC Rear Cover
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Figure1-38 Backplane attachment for BIC cover                
Figure1-39 Installing the BIC rear cover with spacers
Screw locations for attaching BIC rear cover              
1.15   Ferrite Installation 
Procedure: Attach Ferrites to Power Cabling              
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              Procedure: Attach Ferrites to Wire-Wrap Pin Fields
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1.16   ONS 15454 Assembly Specifications
1.16.1  Bandwidth                
1.16.2  Slot Assignments
1.16.3  Cards              
1.16.4  Configurations
1.16.5  Cisco Transport Controller                
1.16.6  External LAN Interface
              1.16.7  TL1 Craft Interface
1.16.8  Modem Interface                
1.16.9  Alarm Interface
1.16.10  EIA Interface                
1.16.11  Nonvolatile Memory
              1.17   Installation Checklist
              1.18   ONS 15454 Software and Hardware Compatibility Matrix
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              Software Installation
2.1   Installation Overview              
2.2   Computer Requirements
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              2.3   Running the CTC Setup Wizard
Procedure: Run the CTC Setup Wizard                
Procedure: Set Up the Environment Variable (Solaris installations only)
Procedure: Reference the JRE (Solaris installations only)              
2.4   Connecting PCs to the ONS 15454
2.4.1   Direct Connections to the ONS 15454                
Procedure: Creating a Direct Connection to an ONS 15454
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              2.4.2   Network Connections
Procedure: Access the ONS 15454 from a LAN                 
Procedure: Disable Proxy Service Using Internet Explorer (Windows)
Procedure: Disable Proxy Service Using Netscape (Windows and Solaris)              
2.4.3   Remote Access to the ONS 15454
2.4.4   TL1 Terminal Access to the ONS 15454              
2.5   Logging into the ONS 15454
Procedure: Log into the ONS 15454              
2.5.1   Creating Login Node Groups
              Procedure: Create a Login Node Group
              2.5.2   Accessing ONS 15454s Behind Firewalls
Procedure: Set the IIOP Listener Port on the ONS 15454                
Procedure: Set the IIOP Listener Port on CTC
              2.6   Working with the CTC Window
              2.6.1   Node View
2.6.1.1   CTC Card Colors                
2.6.1.2   Node View Card Shortcuts
2.6.1.3   Node View Tabs              
2.6.2   Network View
              2.6.2.1   CTC Node Colors
2.6.2.2   Network View Tasks              
2.6.2.3   Creating Domains
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              2.6.2.4   Changing the Network View Background Color
Procedure: Modify the Network or Domain Background Color                
2.6.2.5   Changing the Network View Background Image 
              Procedure: Change the Network View Background Image
Procedure: Add a Node to the Current Session              
2.6.3   Card View
              2.7   CTC Navigation
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              2.8   Viewing CTC Table Data
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              2.9   Printing and Exporting CTC Data
              Procedure: Print CTC Window and Table Data
              Procedure: Export CTC Data
              2.10   Displaying CTC Data in Other Applications
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              Node Setup
3.1  Before You Begin              
3.2  Setting Up Basic Node Information
Procedure: Add the Node Name, Contact, Location, Date, and Time                
3.3  Setting Up Network Information
              Procedure: Set Up Network Information
              Procedure: Change IP Address, Default Router, and Network Mask Using the LCD
              Slot-0 Status=IpAddress
172.020.214.107 <Next   Done      Mod>                
Slot-0 Status=Save Cfg.
Save and REBOOT? <Apply            Revert>              
3.4  Creating Users and Setting Security
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              Procedure: Create New Users
Procedure: Edit a User                
Procedure: Delete a User
              3.5  Creating Protection Groups
Procedure: Create Protection Groups              
Procedure: Enable Ports
              Procedure: Edit Protection Groups
Procedure: Delete Protection Groups              
3.6  Setting Up ONS 15454 Timing
              3.6.1   Network Timing Example
              3.6.2   Synchronization Status Messaging
Procedure: Set up ONS 15454 Timing            
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              Procedure: Set Up Internal Timing
              3.7  Viewing ONS 15454 Inventory
              3.8  Viewing CTC Software Versions
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              IP Networking
4.1  IP Networking Overview              
4.2  ONS 15454 IP Addressing Scenarios
4.2.1   Scenario 1: CTC and ONS 15454s on Same Subnet              
4.2.2   Scenario 2: CTC and ONS 15454s Connected to Router
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4.2.3   Scenario 3: Using Proxy ARP to Enable an ONS 15454 Gateway
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              4.2.4   Scenario 4: Default Gateway on CTC Computer
4.2.5   Scenario 5: Using Static Routes to Connect to LANs            
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Procedure: Create a Static Route
Use the following steps to create a static route.              
4.2.6   Scenario 6: Static Route for Multiple CTCs
              4.2.7   Scenario 7: Using OSPF
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(Figure 4-10).
              Procedure: Set up OSPF
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              4.3  Viewing the ONS 15454 Routing Table
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              SONET Topologies
5.1  Before You Begin                
5.2  Bidirectional Line Switched Rings
              5.2.1  Two-Fiber BLSRs
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              5.2.2  Four-Fiber BLSRs
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              5.2.3  BLSR Bandwidth
              5.2.4  Sample BLSR Application
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5.2.5  Setting Up BLSRs
To set up a BLSR on the ONS 15454, you perform five basic procedures:               
Procedure: Install the BLSR Trunk Cards
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              Procedure: Create the BLSR DCC Terminations
Procedure: Enable the BLSR Ports              
Procedure: Provision the BLSR
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              5.2.6  Upgrading From Two-Fiber to Four-Fiber BLSRs
Procedure: Upgrade From a Two-Fiber to a Four-Fiber BLSR            
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              5.2.7  Adding and Removing BLSR Nodes
Procedure: Add a BLSR Node            
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              Procedure: Remove a BLSR Node
              5.2.8  Moving BLSR Trunk Cards 
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              5.3  Unidirectional Path Switched Rings
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              5.3.1  Example UPSR Application
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              5.3.2  Setting Up a UPSR
Procedure: Install the UPSR Trunk Cards              
Procedure: Configure the UPSR DCC Terminations
Procedure: Enable the UPSR Ports              
5.3.3  Adding and Removing UPSR Nodes
Procedure: Switch UPSR Traffic            
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              Procedure: Add a UPSR Node
              Procedure: Remove a UPSR Node 
              5.4  Subtending Rings
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              Procedure: Subtend a UPSR from a BLSR
Procedure: Subtend a BLSR from a UPSR            
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              Procedure: Subtend a BLSR from a BLSR
              5.5  Linear ADM Configurations
              Procedure: Create a Linear ADM
Procedure: Convert a Linear ADM to UPSR            
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              Procedure: Convert a Linear ADM to a BLSR
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              5.6  Path-Protected Mesh Networks
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Working traffic              
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              Circuits and Tunnels
6.1  Circuits Overview              
6.2  Creating Circuits and VT Tunnels
Procedure: Create an Automatically Routed Circuit            
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              Procedure: Create a Manually Routed Circuit
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              6.3  Creating Multiple Drops for Unidirectional Circuits
Procedure: Create a Unidirectional Circuit with Multiple Drops              
6.4  Creating Monitor Circuits
Procedure: Create a Monitor Circuit              
6.5  Searching for Circuits
Procedure: Search for ONS 15454 Circuits                
6.6  Editing UPSR Circuits
              Procedure: Edit a UPSR Circuit
              6.7  Creating a Path Trace
              Procedure: Create a J1 Path Trace
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              6.8  Cross-Connect Card Capacities
              6.8.1  VT1.5 Cross-Connects
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the Figure 6-11 example.              
6.8.2  VT Tunnels
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              6.9  Creating DCC Tunnels
              Procedure: Provision a DCC Tunnel
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              Card Provisioning
7.1  Performance Monitoring Thresholds              
7.2  Provisioning Electrical Cards
              7.2.1  DS-1 Card Parameters
Procedure: Modify Line and Threshold Settings for the DS-1 Card            
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              7.2.2  DS-3 Card Parameters
Procedure: Modify Line and Threshold Settings for the DS-3 Card            
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              7.2.3  DS3E Card Parameters
              Procedure: Modify Line and Threshold Settings for the DS3E Card
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              7.2.4  DS3XM-6 Card Parameters
              Procedure: Modify Line and Threshold Settings for the DS3XM-6 Card
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              7.2.5  EC1-12 Card Parameters
Procedure: Modify Line and Threshold Settings for the EC-1 Card            
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              7.3  Provisioning Optical Cards
7.3.1  Modifying Transmission Quality                
Procedure: Provision Line Transmission Settings for OC-N Cards
              Procedure: Provision Threshold Settings for OC-N Cards
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              7.3.2  Provisioning OC-N Cards for SDH
Procedure: Provision an OC-N Card for SDH              
7.4  Provisioning IPPM
Procedure: Enable Intermediate-Path Performance Monitoring              
7.5  Provisioning the Alarm Interface Controller
              7.5.1  Using Virtual Wires
              Procedure: Provision External Alarms
              Procedure: Provision External Controls
              7.5.2  Provisioning AIC Orderwire
Procedure:  Provision AIC Orderwire                
7.5.3  Using the AIC Orderwire
              7.6  Converting DS-1 and DS-3 Cards From 1:1 to 1:N Protection
              Procedure: Convert DS1-14 Cards From 1:1 to 1:N Protection
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              Performance Monitoring
8.1  Using the Performance Monitoring Screen              
8.1.1  Viewing PMs
Procedure: View PMs                
8.1.2  Changing the Screen Intervals
              Procedure: Select Fifteen-Minute PM Intervals on the Performance Monitoring Screen
Procedure: Select Twenty-Four Hour PM Intervals on the Performance Monitoring Screen              
8.1.3  Viewing Near End and Far End PMs
              Procedure: Select Near End PMs on the Performance Monitoring Screen
Procedure: Select Far End PMs on the Performance Monitoring Screen              
8.1.4  Using the Signal-Type Menu
Procedure: Select Signal-Type Menus on the Performance Monitoring Screen              
8.1.5  Using the Baseline Button
Procedure: Use the Baseline Button on the Performance Monitoring Screen              
8.1.6  Using the Clear Button
Procedure: Use the Clear Button on the Performance Monitoring Screen              
8.2  Changing Thresholds
              8.3  Enabling Intermediate-Path Performance Monitoring
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              Procedure: Enable Pointer Justification Count Performance Monitoring
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Chapter8      Performance Monitoring
EC1 Path (EC1 XX) Far End PMs Not Supported                
Fiber
              8.5  Performance Monitoring for Electrical Cards
8.5.1  EC1 Card Performance Monitoring Parameters                
Figure8-11 Monitored signal types for the EC1 card
ONS 15454 EC1 OC48                
Near End EC1 Signal
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Chapter8      Performance Monitoring
DS1 Path (DS1 XX) Far End PMs Not Supported                
Fiber
              8.5.2  DS1 and DS1N Card Performance Monitoring Parameters
Figure8-13 Monitored signal types for the DS1 and DS1N cards                
ONS 15454 DS1 OC48
Near End DS1 Signal                
ONS 15454 DS1OC48
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              8.5.3  DS3 and DS3N Card Performance Monitoring Parameters
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              8.5.4  DS3-12E and DS3N-12E Card Performance Monitoring Parameters
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Chapter8      Performance Monito ring
DS3E Path Far End PMs Are Supported                
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              8.5.5  DS3XM-6 Card Performance Monitoring Parameters
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              8.6  Performance Monitoring for Optical Cards
8.6.1  OC-3 Card Performance Monitoring Parameters            
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              8.6.2  OC-12, OC-48, and OC-192 Card Performance Monitoring Parameters
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              Ethernet Operation
9.1  Ethernet Cards              
9.1.1  E100T-12/E100T-G
9.1.2  E1000-2/E1000-2-G              
9.1.3  Port Provisioning for Ethernet Cards
Procedure: Provision Ethernet Ports              
9.2  Multicard and Single-Card EtherSwitch 
9.2.1  Multicard EtherSwitch              
9.2.2  Single-Card EtherSwitch
9.2.3  ONS 15454 and ONS 15327 EtherSwitch Circuit Combinations              
9.3  Ethernet Circuit Configurations 
9.3.1  Point-to-Point Ethernet Circuits                
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              Procedure: Provision an EtherSwitch Point-to-Point Circuit (Multicard or Single-Card)
If you are building a Single-card Etherswitch circuit:            
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              9.3.2  Shared Packet Ring Ethernet Circuits
Procedure: Provision a Shared Packet Ring             
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              9.3.3  Hub and Spoke Ethernet Circuit Provisioning
Procedure: Provision a Hub and Spoke Ethernet Circuit            
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              9.3.4  Ethernet Manual Cross-Connects
              Procedure: Provision a Single-card EtherSwitch Manual Cross-Connect
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              Procedure: Provision a Multicard EtherSwitch Manual Cross-Connect
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              9.4  VLAN Support 
              9.4.1  Q-Tagging (IEEE 802.1Q)
              9.4.2  Priority Queuing (IEEE 802.1Q)
Data Flow              
9.4.3  VLAN Membership
Procedure: Provision Ethernet Ports for VLAN Membership                
Data Flow
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              9.5  Spanning Tree (IEEE 802.1D)
9.5.1  Multi-Instance Spanning Tree and VLANs                
Procedure: Enable Spanning Tree on Ethernet Ports
              9.5.2  Spanning Tree Parameters
9.5.3  Spanning Tree Configuration                
9.5.4  Spanning Tree Map
Procedure: View the Spanning Tree Map              
9.6  Ethernet Performance and Maintenance Screens
              9.6.1  Statistics Screen 
9.6.2  Line Utilization Screen                
9.6.3  History Screen
9.6.4  MAC Table Screen                
Procedure: Retrieve the MAC Table Information
              9.7  Remote Monitoring Specification Alarm Thresholds
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              Alarm Monitoring and Management
10.1  Overview                
10.2  Viewing ONS 15454 Alarms
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              10.2.1  Controlling Alarm Display
10.2.2  Viewing Alarm-Affected Circuits              
Procedure: View Affected Circuits for a Specific Alarm
              10.2.3  Conditions Tab
10.2.3.1  Retrieve and Display Conditions              
10.2.3.2  Conditions Column Descriptions
              10.2.4  Viewing History
10.2.5  Viewing Alarms on the LCD                
Procedure: View Alarm Counts on a Specific Slot and Port
              10.3  Alarm Profiles
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              10.3.1  Creating and Modifying Alarm Profiles
Procedure: Create an Alarm Profile              
10.3.1.1  Alarm Profile Menus
10.3.1.2  Alarm Profile Editing                
10.3.1.3  Alarm Severity Option
10.3.1.4  Row Display Options              
10.3.2  Applying Alarm Profiles
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              Procedure: Apply an Alarm Profile at the Card View
Procedure: Apply an Alarm Profile at the Node View              
10.4  Suppressing Alarms
Procedure: Suppressing Alarms            
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              SNMP
11.1  SNMP Overview               
11.2  SNMP Basic Components
              11.3  SNMP Support
Procedure: Set Up SNMP Support            
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              11.4  SNMP Management Information Bases 
              11.5  SNMP Traps
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              11.6  SNMP Community Names
11.7  SNMP Remote Network Monitoring             
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Circuit Routing                
Automatic Circuit Routing
              Circuit Routing Characteristics
Bandwidth Allocation and Routing                
Secondary Sources and Drops
              Manual Circuit Routing
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segment (see FigureA-3).                
FigureA-3 Alternate paths for virtual UPSR segments
cannot be 1+1 or BLSR protected (see Figure A-4). The same rule applies at the UPSR bridge.                
FigureA-4 Mixing 1+1 or BLSR protected links with a UPSR
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              Constraint-Based Circuit Routing
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Regulatory and Compliance Requirements                
Regulatory Compliance
              Japan Approvals
Label Information                
Class A Notice
              Installation Warnings
              DC Power Disconnection Warning
B-4              
DC Power Connection Warning
B-5              
Power Supply Disconnection Warning
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B-7
              Outside Line Connection Warning
B-8              
Class 1 Laser Product Warning
Class I and Class 1M Laser Warning              
Restricted Area Warning
B-9              
Ground Connection Warning
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B-11
              Qualified Personnel Warning
Invisible Laser Radiation Warning (other versions available)              
More Than One Power Supply
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Unterminated Fiber Warning
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B-15              
Laser Activation Warning
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