Cisco Systems 8600 Series manual Card Operation, BXM Front Card Indicators

Card Operation

Virtual Interfaces

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VPI/VCI used to identify virtual connection.

Support for up to 32 virtual interfaces per card, each with 16 CoS queues.

Virtual Interface parameters:

—Physical port (trunk or access).

—Peak Service Rate (PSR).

—Minimum Service Rate (MSR).

—Maximum resource allocation.

Card Operation

BXM Front Card Indicators

The BXM front panel has a three-section, multi-colored “card” LED to indicate the card status.

Atwo-port BXM-622, an 8-port BXM-155 front card, and a 12-port BXM-T3/E3 are shown in Figure 6-2, Figure 6-3,and Figure 6-4.The card status LED is color-coded as indicated in Table 6-3.A three-section multi-colored “port” LED indicates the status of the ports. Types of failures are indicated by various combinations of the card status indicators as indicated in Table 6-4.

Table 6-3	BXM Front Panel Status Indicators
Status	LED color	Status Description
port	off	Trunk/line is inactive and not carrying data.
	green	Trunk/line is actively carrying data.
	yellow	Trunk/line is in remote alarm.
	red	Trunk/line is in local alarm.
card	green (act)	Card is on-line and one or more trunks/lines on the card have been upped.
		If off, card may be operational but is not carrying traffic.
	yellow (stby)	Card is off-line and in standby mode (for redundant card pairs). May not
		have any upped trunks/lines. If blinking, indicates card firmware or
		configuration data is being updated.
	red (fail)	Card failure; card has failed self-test and/or is in a reset mode.

Table 6-4	BXM Front Panel Card Failure indicators
act	stby	fail	Failure Description
on	off	on	Non-fatal error detected; card is still active.
off	on	on	Non-fatal error detected; card is in standby mode.
off	blinking	on	Fatal error detected; card is in a reboot mode.
on	on	on	Card failed boot load and operation is halted.

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