Polycom RealPresence 1800 Administration Manual page 381

Soft Blade Monitoring States
Soft Blade State State Meaning
Ready Soft Blade is
operational.
Operational Phase Error Handling
Disabled Ongoing conferences
continue, no new
ones.
Disconnected No communication
with Soft Blade, and
no ping.
Generates Active
Alarm indicating Soft
Blade status changed
to Disconnected.
No communication
with Soft Blade but
ping succeeds.
Internal recovery is
ran to verify
installation and
configuration.
Generates Active
Alarm indicating Soft
Blade status changed
to Faulty.
Faulty
** Once a Soft Blade is erased, re-adding it requires re-authentication from the starting point.
*** Warning to ongoing conferences is generated.
Initiating a Restore to Factory Defaults operation on a Soft Blade, results in the Soft Blade requiring
re-authentication before resuming its normal operation (see the Pend Authentication state in the State
Machine above).
Using Backup of an operational MMCU, to Restore on a different machine, requires re-authentication of the
assigned Soft Blades.
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Soft Blade/Administrator Operation
While in State
Administrator performs Restart ***
Administrator performs Disable. *
No communication with Blade, ping
No communication with Blade, no ping
Administrator performs Delete. ***
Administrator performs Enable.
Administrator performs Delete. ***
Soft Blade is alive following restart, but
installation is not complete.
Soft Blade is alive following restart, and
installation is complete.
Administrator performs Delete, which
turns off the Active Alarm.
Administrator performs Restart for a
service ***
Administrator performs Rescue,
triggering re-installation of internal
package followed by reboot.
Administrator performs Disable.
Administrator performs Delete.
No ping
Appendix - Modular MCU
Soft Blade New State
Ready (on success)
Faulty (on failure)
Disabled
Faulty
Disconnected
Soft Blade erased **
Ready
Soft Blade erased **
Installing
Initializing
Soft Blade erased**
Ready (on successful
Restart)
Faulty (on failed Restart)
Installing
Disabled
Soft Blade erased**
Disconnected
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