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Chapter4 Configuring Interfaces Configuring the POS OC-12c Uplink Interface (Catalyst8540)
Configuring SONET Delay Triggers
A trigger is an alarm, which when asserted causes the line protocol to go down.

Line and Section Triggers

Table4-2 lists the line and section alarms that are triggers by default:
When one or more of the alarms in Table4-2 are asserted, the line protocol of the interface goes down
without a delay.You can issue a pos delay triggers line command to delay triggering the line protocol
of the interface from going down. You can set the delay from 50 to 10000 ms. If you do not specify a
time interval, the default delay is set to 100 ms.

Path Level Triggers

Table4-3 lists path alarms that are not triggers by default. You can configure these path alarms as
triggers and also specify a delay.
Youcan issue the pos delay triggers path command to configure the path alarms listed in Table 4-3 as
triggers. These triggers will bring down the line protocol of the interface. Whenyou configure the path
alarms as triggers, you can simultaneously specify a delay for the triggers. Youcan set the delay from
50 to 10000 ms. If you do not specify a time interval, the default delay is set to 100 ms.
The pos delay triggers path configurationcan also bring the line protocol of the interface down when
the higher of the B2 and B3 error rates is compared with the SF (signal failure) threshold. If the SF
threshold is crossed, then the line protocol of the interface goes down.
Table4-2 Default Line and Section Alarm Triggers
Alarm Description
SLOS Section loss of signal
SLOF Section loss of frame
AIS-L Line alarm indication signal
Table4-3 Configurable Path Alarm Triggers
Alarm Description
AIS-P Path alarm indication signal
RDI-P Path remote defect indication
LOP-P Path loss of pointer