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Performance Monitoring
Performance monitoring (PM) parameters are used by service providers to gather, store, set thresholds
for, and report performance data for early detection of problems. In this chapter, PM parameters and
concepts are defined for electrical cards, Ethernet cards, optical cards, optical multirate cards, and
storage access networking (SAN) cards in the Cisco ONS 15454.
For information about enabling and viewing PM values, refer to the Cisco ONS 15454 Procedure Guide.
Chapter topics include:
• 15.1 Threshold Performance Monitoring, page 15-1
• 15.2 Intermediate Path Performance Monitoring, page 15-3
• 15.3 Pointer Justification Count Performance Monitoring, page 15-4
• 15.4 Performance Monitoring Parameter Definitions, page 15-4
• 15.5 Performance Monitoring for Electrical Cards, page 15-12
• 15.6 Performance Monitoring for Ethernet Cards, page 15-29
• 15.7 Performance Monitoring for Optical Cards, page 15-42
• 15.8 Performance Monitoring for Optical Multirate Cards, page 15-44
• 15.9 Performance Monitoring for Storage Access Networking Cards, page 15-45
Note For information on PM parameters for Transponder and Muxponder cards, and DWDM cards, refer to
Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Reference Manual.
Note For additional information regarding PM parameters, refer to Telcordia documents GR-1230-CORE,
GR-820-CORE, GR-499-CORE, and GR-253-CORE and the ANSI T1.231 document entitled Digital
Hierarchy - Layer 1 In-Service Digital Transmission Performance Monitoring.

15.1 Threshold Performance Monitoring

Thresholds are used to set error levels for each PM parameter. You can set individual PM threshold
values from the Cisco Transport Controller (CTC) card view Provisioning tab. For procedures on
provisioning card thresholds, such as line, path, and SONET thresholds, refer to the Cisco ONS 15454
Procedure Guide.