Status Branch; Health And Status; Device Health And Status - Paradyne COMSPHERE
3610 User Manual

COMSPHERE 3600 Series Data Service Units

Status Branch

The Status (Stat) branch reports on the:
Health and status of the DSU and DBM
DTE interface
Circuit quality:
— For an analog DBM connection, Network
Signal Level and Quality
— For a DSU with App Module ID displaying
XLOOP, DDS Signal Quality
Identity of the DSU (see Table 3-2)
Terminal's power – status of voltage on the DTE's
RTS lead
Refer to Appendix E for DSU and MUX Health and
Status messages.
TOP-LEVEL MENU
Local Remot
Address
Bckup
Stat
H/S DTE CircQ ID
Port
Select
Devic Expan Subn

Health and Status

Health and Status (H/S) displays the health and status
of the DSU, and if installed, DBM H/S. DSU and line
conditions are automatically scanned for normal limits.
There are three types of Health and Status reports:
Devic (Device Health and Status)
Expan (Expanded Health and Status)
Subn (Subnetwork Health and Status)
3-6
Msgs
Test Confg Ctrl
TPwr
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All alarm and status conditions appear for the specified
DSU at the time H/S is selected. For a:
Local DSU: alarm and status conditions are updated
every 2 seconds.
Remote DSU: display reflects the actual alarm and
status conditions at the time of access.

Device Health and Status

Device Health and Status (Devic) reports health and
status information for a selected DSU. After 15 minutes
without a key press, the Device Health and Status (H/S)
reappears on the front panel. See Appendix E for Health
and Status messages.
H/S:
F1
When the digital circuit is the active link,
The first line on the LCD includes:
— A running timer (hhh:mm:ss) to reflect the
length of time the DSU has been operating.
This timer is displayed until the time exceeds
254:59:59, when the time is replaced with
MAX.
— Display of
and status messages exist. Use the
key to scroll through the messages. The unit
automatically scrolls through additional
messages approximately every three seconds.
— An asterisk (*) when an NMS is polling the
control DSU or a control DSU is polling a
tributary.
The second line displays:
— The DSU's aggregate data rate or test alarms.
— A DDS facility alarm if the DDS data rate is
not available. Refer to the Rate(Kbps)
configuration option (Table 4-1).
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F3
F2
to indicate that additional health
or
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