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Cisco ONS 15530 Configuration Guide and Command Reference
78-14227-01, Cisco IOS Release 12.1(10)EV2
Chapter6 Configuring VOA Module Interfaces
About Optical Thresholds
Example

The following example shows how to display the attenuation configuration of a voafilterin subinterface:

Switch# show interfaces voafilterin 2/1/0.2
voaFilterIn2/1/0.2 is up, line protocol is up
Hardware is voaFilterIn Port
Port Transmit (Tx) Support: False
Port Receive (Rx) Support: True
VOA This Port operates on: 1
Minimum settable Attenuation: 3.7dB
Maximum settable Attenuation: 30.0dB
Current set Attenuation: 20.0dB
Light Quality: Low Warning Threshold Exceeded
Current Output Power: -16.3dBm
Low Alarm Threshold: -20.0dBm
Low Alarm Threshold Severity: major (Default Value)
Low Warning Threshold: -15.0dBm
Low Warning Threshold Severity: not-alarm (Default Value)
High Warning Threshold: -10.0dBm
High Warning Threshold Severity: not-alarm (Default Value)
High Alarm Threshold: -5.0dBm
High Alarm Threshold Severity: major (Default Value)

The following example shows how to display the attenuation configuration of a voain in te rface :

Switch# show interfaces voain 7/1/0
voaIn7/1/0 is up, line protocol is down
Hardware is voaIn Port
Port Transmit (Tx) Support: False
Port Receive (Rx) Support: True
VOA This Port operates on: 1
Minimum settable Attenuation: 1.7dB
Maximum settable Attenuation: 30.0dB
Current set Attenuation: 1.7dB
Light Quality: Loss of Light/Low Alarm Threshold Exceeded
Current Output Power: -256.0dBm
Low Alarm Threshold: -29.0dBm (Default Value)
Low Alarm Threshold Severity: major (Default Value)
Low Warning Threshold: -20.0dBm
Low Warning Threshold Severity: not-alarm (Default Value)
High Warning Threshold: -5.0dBm
High Warning Threshold Severity: not-alarm (Default Value)
High Alarm Threshold: 0.0dBm
High Alarm Threshold Severity: major (Default Value)
About Optical Thresholds

You can configure optical thresholds on the VOA module interfaces that issue alarm messages to th e

system if the optical thresholds are exceeded. Every second, the monitoring facility updates the counters

that correspond to the alarm thresholds. When the signal degrades, or fails entirely, the system issues

alarms to the console. These alarms can help isolate failures in the system and in the network.