Cisco ONS 15310-MA SDH Procedure Manual page 435

Chapter 17 DLPs H100 to H199
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c. If you set Path Trace Mode to Manual, enter the string that the circuit source should receive from
the circuit destination in the New Expected String field. If you set Path Trace Mode to Auto, skip
this step.
Check 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 VC Path Trace Identifier Mismatch Path (TIM-P) alarm
appears. Refer to the Cisco ONS 15310-MA SDH Troubleshooting Guide for descriptions of alarms
and conditions.
(Check box visibility depends on card selection.) Check the Disable AIS on C2 Mis-Match check
e.
box if you want to suppress the Alarm Indication Signal when a C2 mis-match occurs.
Click Apply.
f.
Note
Step 11 After you set up the path trace, the received string appears in the Received field on the path trace setup
window. The following options are available:
• Click Hex Mode to display path trace in hexadecimal format. The button name changes to ASCII
Mode. Click it to return the path trace to ASCII format.
• Click Reset 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 12
When you display the detailed circuit window, path trace is indicated by an M (manual path trace) or
an A (automatic path trace) at the circuit source and destination ports.
Return to your originating procedure (NTP).
Step 13
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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.
It is not necessary to set the format (16 or 64 bytes) for the circuit destination expected
string; the path trace process automatically determines the format.
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