Avaya S8700 Maintenance Manual page 1876

Maintenance-Object Repair Procedures
Clear Error Counters (#270)
The ports on the Maintenance/Test circuit pack continually run self-tests,
whenever the port is idle. The Angel uses a counter so that the Background
Maintenance Failure message is only sent uplink once. Many circuit packs have
counters in the Angel firmware. These counters are used so that Control Channel
Message Set (CCMS) messages are not continuously sent uplink. Using this
method, the message will be sent once, when the counter reaches some preset
threshold, and then not sent again until the counter is cleared. This test is used to
clear the counter, so that if the port continues to fail during or after Avaya
MultiVantage™ software demanded testing, the Angel will send a message to
indicate that fact.
This test is only used to send a message to the Angel on the Maintenance/Test
circuit pack. Therefore, this test should never abort or fail.
Table 8-474. Test #270 Clear Error Counters
Error Test
Code Result Description / Recommendation
PASS The message to clear the Maintenance/Test circuit pack's counter for Background
Maintenance Failures has been sent.
8-1154 Issue 1 May 2002
Continued on next page
555-233-143