Symmetricom 1100, 1000 manual Starting the TimeProvider for the First Time, Autonomous Messages

Chapter 4 Provisioning the TimeProvider

Starting the TimeProvider for the First Time

The TL1 command may generate an event message specific to the command. This event message accompanies the command description in this chapter.

Autonomous Messages

In addition to the TL1 response messages described in the above sections, the TimeProvider returns Autonomous Messages to report alarms, configuration changes, or condition changes. Frequently, an Autonomous Message is returned at approximately the same time as the TL1 response message that is associated with a command, because the command happens to change the unit’s state. Autonomous Messages are not directly correlated with commands, and therefore they do not contain a correlation tag (ctag).

The TimeProvider can generate an Autonomous Message at any time, whether to report that a user-initiated change has occurred, to report that an active alarm condition exists, or to report that an alarm has been cleared. The format of the Autonomous message is as follows; note that the text REPT identifies the response as a Autonomous Message.

<cr><lf><lf>

sid date time <cr><lf>

almcde atag REPT reptype aidtype<cr><lf> aid,aditype:ntfcncde,condtype,srveff,ocrdat,ocrtim:condscr

”<cr><lf>

;

Refer to the TimeProvider TL1 Reference Guide for more information on Autonomous Messages.

Starting the TimeProvider for the First Time

The TimeProvider is delivered with a copy of SynCraft, Symmetricom’s network management application. Before you can use SynCraft or other network management software, you must provision the following parameters, as described in this section and in Setting Communications Parameters, on page 91:

Source ID (sid)

Date and time

Ethernet parameters

Security-level user

Appendix B, CRAFT Software Reference, provides procedures and instructions to get started using the SynCraft application.

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