Displaying Card Support For Vc Merge; Enabling Vc Merge - Cisco BPX 8620 Installation And Configuration Manual

Chapter 23 Configuring BXM Virtual Switch Interface

Displaying Card Support for VC Merge

When adding y-redundancy (card redundancy) where one card supports VC Merge and the other card
does not, a feature mismatch is declared with the following message displayed while executing the
addyred command:
card pair is incompatible due to VC Merge support.
If VC Merge is enabled on a card and that card is replaced with a card that does not support VC Merge,
the dspcd screen shows the following message:
Front card must support VC Merge
When you enter the dspcds command, the status of the card displays mismatch.
For parameter definitions that are used for the dspcd command, refer to the Cisco WAN Switching
Command Reference, Release 9.3.30.
To display card support for VC Merge, use the following procedure.
Enter the dspcd command to view a detailed card summary as follows:
Step 1
Last Command: dspcd <
Enter the applicable slot number for the enhanced BXM-E cards.
Step 2
The following example is a detailed card display summary:
m2
Detailed Card Display for BXM-155 in slot 4
Status:
Revision:
Serial Number:
Top Asm Number:
Queue Size:
Support: 8 Pts, OC3, FST, VcShp
Supp: VT,ChStLv 1,VSI(Lv 3,ITSMV)
Supp: APS(FW)
Support: LMIv 1,ILMIv 1,NbrDisc,XL
Support: OAMLp, TrfcGen
#Ch:32768,PG[1]:32736,PG[2]:32736
PG[1]:1,2,3,4,PG[2]:5,6,7,8,
#Sched_Ch:61440 #Total_Ch:61376
Type: BXME, revision DX
Last Command: dspcd 4

Enabling VC Merge

To enable VC Merge, use the following procedure.
Before you enable VC Merge, use the cnfrsrc command to ensure that the minimum number of
Note
channels is 1023 for the minvsilcns and maxvsilcns parameters. For more information about the
cnfrsrc command, refer to the Cisco WAN Switching Command Reference, Release 9.3.30.
Release 9.3.30, Part Number 78-12907-01 Rev. E0, May 2005
slot number
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Active
HN04 Backcard Installed
760313 Type:
28215802 Revision:
524280 Serial Number: A74072
Top Asm Number:
Supp: 8 Pts,OC3,SMF,RedSlot:NO
indicates that VC Merge is supported.
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