Cisco ONS 15327 Procedure Manual page 323

Chapter 8 Manage Circuits
(Check box visibility depends on card selection) Click the Disable AIS on C2 Mis-Match check
d.
box if you want to suppress the Alarm Indication Signal when a C2 mis-match occurs.
Click Apply, then click Close.
e.
Provision the circuit source expected string:
Step 8
On the Edit Circuit window (with Show Detailed Map chosen) right-click the circuit source port and
a.
choose Edit Path Trace from the shortcut menu.
In the Circuit Path Trace window, enable the path trace expected string by choosing Auto or Manual
b.
from the Path Trace Mode drop-down menu:
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If you set Path Trace Mode to Manual, enter the string that the circuit source should receive from
c.
the circuit destination in the New Expected String field. If you set Path Trace Mode to Auto, skip
this step.
Click the Disable AIS and RDI if TIM-P is detected check box if you want to suppress the alarm
d.
indication signal (AIS) and RDI when the STS Path Trace Identifier Mismatch Path (TIM-P) alarm
is displayed. Refer to the Cisco ONS 15454 Troubleshooting Guide for descriptions of alarms and
conditions.
e. (Check box visibility depends on card selection) Click the Disable AIS on C2 Mis-Match check
box if you want to suppress the Alarm Indication Signal when a C2 mis-match occurs.
Click Apply.
f.
Step 9 After you set up the path trace, the received string appears in the Received field on the path trace setup
window.
• Click Hex Mode to display path trace in hexadecimal display. The button name changes to ASCII
Mode. Click it to return the path trace to ASCII display.
• Click the Reset button to reread values from the port.
• Click Default to return to the path trace default settings (Path Trace Mode is set to Off and the New
Transmit and New Expected Strings are null).
Clicking Default will generate alarms if the port on the other end is provisioned with a different string.
Caution
The Expect and Receive strings are updated every few seconds if the Path Trace Mode field is set to Auto
or Manual.
Click Close.
Step 10
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Auto—Uses the first string received from the port at the other end as the baseline string. An
alarm is raised when a string that differs from the baseline is received.
Manual—Uses the Current Expected String field as the baseline string. An alarm is raised when
a string that differs from the Current Expected String is received.
Figure 8-4 shows an example. The following options are available:
NTP-B79 Create a J1 Path Trace
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