Chapter 5. Slip Monitoring; Slip Monitoring In C-Dot Dss - C-DOT DSS MAX Installation And User Manual

5.1.

SLIP MONITORING IN C-DOT DSS

5.1.1. Introduction
Slip monitoring is done in C-DOT DSS at the DTS (Digital Trunk
Synchronisation) card and slips are dumped and analysed at the IOP using
two slip monitoring utilities namely "PORTMON" and "SLIP".
PORTMON is an inherent part of UNIX Release 9.0 and in onward releases
and the other utility named SLIP is a post-processing utility and is available
in UNIX releases 11.2 and higher.
5.1.2. Prerequisite
Check for the following :
1.
2.
5.1.3. Procedure
(A)
INSTALLATION AND USER MANUAL
Slip Monitoring
DTS card shall be jacked in.
A RS232 cable between the selected DTS and IOP. (Please refer to
Figures 5a & 5b for connection details when IOP ML / IOPXL is used
and figures 5c and 5d for connections when IOPVH is used).
PORTMON Utility
1. At IOP prompt make a command file "/tmp/cmd and write the
following commands in this file.
i) Contrl-C (in first line)
ii) C (in second file)
Press <enter> and <save> the file
2. Again, at IOP prompt, give -
Iop5C> echo "N\c">>/cmd and press enter
Chapter 5.
29