ASAI Maintenance Capabilities11

This chapter describes the Maintenance Capability Group. The capabilities available in this group are used to disable and enable ECS-administered alarms for periodic link maintenance and to obtain information about the condition of the ASAI link.

The following capabilities are available:

Heartbeat

This capability lets the adjunct and the ECS request a

 

sanity check on the ASAI software or the ASAI link.

Suspend alarms

This capability lets the adjunct disable

 

ECS-administered alarms on the ASAI link before

 

planned down time or routine maintenance.

Resume alarms

This capability lets the adjunct enable

 

ECS-administered alarms on the ASAI link.

Restart

This capability clears out all data structures and

 

resources associated with the ASAI link (for example,

 

associations).

! CAUTION:

All adjuncts must support the restart and heartbeat procedures or the ASAI link will not operate. Further, it is strongly recommended that all adjuncts incorporate suspend/resume maintenance to avoid unnecessary alarms and resulting maintenance expenses when adjuncts are brought down for routine maintenance or normal shutdown.

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