Optivity Telephony Manager - Nortel 1000E Maintenance Manual

Connecting to the Media Card RS-232 maintenance port

Optivity Telephony Manager

When a system terminal is installed at a remote location, modems and a
telephone line are required between the terminal and the SDI port.
When a system terminal is installed on the Signaling Server, the rear serial
port is the primary port for maintenance and administration.
The Voice Gateway Media Card faceplate provides a female 8-pin mini-DIN
serial maintenance port for system terminal connection. The maintenance
port on the Shielded 50-pin to Serial/ELAN/TLAN Adapter provides an
alternative to the faceplate maintenance port. For details, see the Voice
Gateway Media Card installation in Communication Server 1000E:
Installation and Configuration (553-3041-210).
Additional Serial Ports
The maximum number of serial ports used for maintenance, administration,
CDR, and traffic depends upon the number of MG 1000T Expansions
equipped. There can be up to three serial ports on the MG 1000T Core and up
to three for each equipped MG 1000T Expansion.
Connect a serial cable either to the rear P2 connector or to the faceplate
connector, but not both at once. The card's hardware cannot support two
devices connected at once.
The terminal device should be set to 9600, 8, N, 1. Set the flow control to
"None" or a similar setting.
Note: If the hardware flow control is enabled, users see information
from the card but the card does not respond to any keystrokes.
The Optivity Telephony Manager (OTM) is a management server that can be
used to configure and maintain the system. It collects and processes alarms
from the system, collects call accounting and traffic data, and acts as a
terminal server for multiple devices.
Communicating with the system
Communication Server 1000E
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