Appendix A CTC Information and Shortcuts

Manage the CTC Window

Table A-6 Performing Network Management Tasks in Network View

Action

Task

 

 

Open a node

Any of the following:

 

Double-click a node icon.

 

Right-click a node icon and choose Open Node from the shortcut menu.

 

Click a node and choose Go to Selected Object View from the View

 

menu.

 

From the View menu, choose Go To Other Node. Choose a node from the

 

Select Node dialog box.

 

Double-click a node alarm or event in the Alarms or History tab.

 

 

Move a node icon

Press the Ctrl key and the left mouse button simultaneously and drag the node

 

icon to a new location.

 

 

Consolidate links

Right-click on a link and choose Consolidate/Expand from the shortcut menu.

 

For more detailed instructions, refer to Chapter 11, “Change Node Settings.”

 

 

Reset node icon

Right-click a node and choose Reset Node Position from the shortcut menu.

position

The node icon moves to the position defined by the longitude and latitude fields

 

on the Provisioning > General tab in node view.

 

 

Provision a circuit

Right-click a node. From the shortcut menu, choose Provision Circuit To and

 

choose the node where you want to provision the circuit. For circuit creation

 

procedures, see Chapter 6, “Create Circuits and Low-Order Tunnels.”

 

 

Update circuits with

Right-click a node and choose Update Circuits With New Node from the

new node

shortcut menu. Use this command when you add a new node and want to pass

 

circuits through it.

 

 

Display a link end

Right-click a span. From the shortcut menu, choose Go To [<node> <port>

point

<slot>] for the drop port you want to view. CTC displays the card in card view.

 

 

Display span

Do any of the following:

properties

Move mouse over a span; the properties appear near the span.

 

 

Click a span; the properties appear in the upper left corner of the window.

 

Right-click a span; the properties appear at the top of the shortcut menu.

 

 

Perform an SNCP

Right-click a network span and click Circuits. In the Circuits on Span dialog

protection switch for

box, switch options appear in the SNCP Span Switching field.

an entire span

 

 

 

Display DWDM span

Right-click a DWDM network span and click Circuits. The optical channel

properties

network connection (OCHNC), optical direction, and circuit appear.

 

 

Upgrade a span

Right-click a span and choose Upgrade Span from the shortcut menu.

 

Note For detailed span upgrade information and instructions, see

 

Chapter 12, “Upgrade Cards and Spans.”

 

 

Table Display Options

Right-clicking a table column displays a menu. Table A-7shows table display options, which include rearranging or hiding CTC table columns and sorting table columns by primary or secondary keys.

 

 

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ONS 15454 SDH specifications

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