Procedure 7-9.1: Provision alarm gateway, alarm groups, and remote NE status
Overview
Important!
This is not a stand-alone procedure. Perform this procedure only as directed by Procedure 7-9: Set NE defaults — alarm gateway, alarm group, remote NE status, FTP/FTTD, security and history log thresholds.
Use this procedure to provision alarm groups, alarm gateways, and remote NE status, as required. This procedure might best be performed after all network elements have been equipped, tested, and integrated into the network. See below.
AGNE
The Alarm Gateway parameter may have a value of Enabled or Disabled (default). Setting the value to Enabled designates the NE as an AGNE for its alarm group. One AGNE is needed for each alarm group to support the message communications for Remote NE Status feature. One other NE in the same alarm group may be provisioned as a backup AGNE, if required.
Any NE in an alarm group can be an AGNE. It is recommended that you do NOT provision an NE as both an AGNE and a TCP/IP GNE or TL1 GNE.
Remote NE Status must be Enabled in order to provision the NE as an AGNE. An NE with Remote NE Status (rnestat) Enabled but no AGNE in its alarm group reports an AGNE Communications failure alarm.
Alarm Groups
Alarm group has a numeric value of 1 through 255. The default is 255. All NEs with DCC connectivity, whether nearby or not, that have the same Alarm Group number are members of the same alarm group. All members of an alarm group share Remote NE Status information with each other but not with NEs in different alarm groups. All NEs in an alarm group must be in the same OSI area.
Remote NE Status must be Enabled in order to assign an alarm group number to the NE.
Remote NE Status
Remote NE status may be Enabled, Enable Far-End, or Disabled (default). When provisioned Enabled, the system activates support for the far-end activity LED, remote office alarms, and remote alarm/status reports.
When provisioned Enable Far-End, the SYSCTL LEDs and the office alarms only illuminate the FE LED; not the LEDs indicating the severity of the alarm. The SYSCTL LEDs and office panel LEDs that indicate the severity of alarms (CR, MJ, MN) only illuminate for local alarms. Except for the illumination of LEDs, selecting Enable Far-End behaves the same as selecting Enabled.
When provisioned Disabled (default), the system supports only local office alarms and local alarm/status reports. The far-end activity LED is not supported.
Steps
Perform the following steps to provision the alarm group functions.
1 |
For Remote NE Status, select Enabled or Enable Far-End to enable Remote NE Status. Important! Remote NE Status must be provisioned Enabled or Enable Far-End in order to provision the alarm group functions. |
2 |
If this NE will serve as an Alarm Gateway, select Enabled to provision this NE as an alarm gateway (AGNE). Otherwise, select Disabled. An NE serving as a backup AGNE should have this parameter set to Enabled. In this configuration both NEs will actively serve as AGNEs to provide redundant alarm monitoring and distribution. The system does not assign one as primary and the other as secondary. |
3 |
Enter the Alarm Group number (1–255) being assigned to this NE. |
4 |
Ensure the other parameters in the window have not been changed, unless you are provisioning them also. Click OK at the bottom of the window. |
5 |
Read the warning message, then click Yes to execute the command. Important! An AGNE Communications failure alarm may occur if no AGNE has been selected for the alarm group. If you need to clear the alarm, select Administration → Set NE, then select Disabled to disable the Remote NE Status. You will have to enable the remote NE status again when the AGNE has been established in order for this NE to be part of the alarm group. End of steps |