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Summary of Contents for Quality Fiber and RF GMC200
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Page 1: User Guide
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide November 20, 2007 Version: 4.00 Quality Fiber and RF, Inc. - Page 2 No part of this document may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise without the prior written permission Quality Fiber and RF, Inc.
- Page 3 No license is granted, implied or otherwise, under any patent or patent rights of Quality Fiber and RF, Inc or its partners. Quality Fiber and RF, Inc. makes no warranties, implied or otherwise, in regard to this document and to the products described in this document.
- Page 4 GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide Reversion History Reversion Date Reason for change V1.00 Oct. 19, 2006 First draft release V1.10 Nov. 27, 2006 Some title reworded V1.20 Nov. 29, 2006 SNMP monitor added V1.30 Dec. 19, 2006 Web-based management...
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Page 5: Table Of Contents
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide Table of Contents Overview .....................1 Audience.................1 Features..................1 Specifications................2 1.3.1 Optical Specification ...........2 1.3.2 10/100/1000BASE-T Electrical Specifications ....2 1.3.3 In-band OAM Features ..........2 1.3.4 IP Ping Features............3 Hardware Descriptions ................4 Carrier Center Chassis ............4 2.1.1 Front Panel LEDs ............4... - Page 6 GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide System Information ...............44 Card Commands..............44 Select a Chassis ..............49 Network Information..............50 SNMP ...................50 Alarm ..................51 Set System Information............52 Retime System Clock............52 5.10 Reset Command ..............53 5.11 Reboot Command..............53...
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Page 7: Overview
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 1 Overview The GMC200 is a high performance, cost effective, carrier grade manageable media converter system, which is intended for applications of the point-to-point fiber-to-the-premises (FTTx) market. The GMC200 platform offers 100BASE-FX to 10/100BASE-TX conversion or 1000BASE-X to 10/100/1000BASE-TX conversion or other media and protocol conversion in the future releases. -
Page 8: Specifications
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide • Dual processor management card for maximize the system performances • Dual power supply of load sharing or 1 + 1 automatic over features with over-voltage / under-voltage alarms • Dual fans with monitoring and alarm features •... -
Page 9: Ip Ping Features
Link transparency to indicate the link down from link partner. • 1.3.4 IP Ping Features In addition to the in-band OAM features, GMC200 media converter system also supports IP ping function on some MC units, which allows the network manager to monitor the remote media converter at IP level. -
Page 10: Hardware Descriptions
2 Hardware Descriptions 2.1 Carrier Center Chassis The GMC200 media converter system’s carrier center chassis is shown in the following drawings, The whole rack contains 15 pieces of media converter cards and 1 piece of network management card. All plug-in cards are hot- swappable. - Page 11 GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide The following table shows the power supply LED definitions: Label Color State Definition Green The power is on and supplying the current to the system. Active The power is off or in standby mode. It is not supplying the current to the system.
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Page 12: Rear Panel Power Supply Slots & Fans
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 2.1.2 Rear Panel Power Supply Slots & Fans There are two slide-in power supply slots on the rear panel to accommodate the power supply modules, which are used to support redundant backup for the chassis. Both power modules can accept either 220VAC or -48VDC supply. -
Page 13: Physical And Environmental
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide Slave A Slave B Slave C 2.1.4 Physical and Environmental • Dimensions: 19-inch rack-mount width, 2.0U height. • Weight: 9 Kg • Operating temperature: 0 ~ 65 • Storage temperature: -25 ~ 85 • Humidity: 5% ~ 95% RH Non-condensing 2.2 Remote Converter Unit... -
Page 14: Rear Panel Connector
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 2.2.1 Rear Panel Connector The remote converter unit supports 5V DC power supply options. The following figure shows the power connector on the rear panel. 5VDC 2.2.2 Physical and Environmental • Dimensions: 125×90×28mm • Weight: 0.50Kg •... -
Page 15: Plug-In Media Converter Cards
Blinking Management system is alarm booting up or the software upgrade is in progress or there is a software error alarm 2.4 Plug-in Media Converter Cards GMC200 system uses the same plug-in card in both carrier center chassis... -
Page 16: Leds On The Plug-In 100Base-Fx Converter Card
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide and the remote converter unit. There are different kinds of plug-in converter cards for different applications, such as • 10/100Base-TX to multi-mode 100 Base-FX converter card with or without IP ping function • 10/100Base-TX to single mode dual fiber 100 Base-FX converter card with or without IP ping function •... - Page 17 GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide There are six diagnostic and status LEDs on the face panel of media converter card, which are used as the indications of power, optical and UTP ports. As mentioned before, the media converter plug-in card is hot swappable.
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Page 18: 100Base-Fx Optical Port Specifications
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide Standard MC SPD2 P1-FX P2-TX LNK/ACT2 LNK/ACT1 FDX2 APS MC P1-FX P3-FX P2-TX LNK/ACT1 LNK/ACT3 FDX2 SPD2 LNK/ACT2 Dual TX MC P1-FX P3-TX P2-TX LNK/ACT1 FDX3 FDX2 SPD3 LNK/ACT3 SPD2 LNK/ACT2 2.4.2 100Base-FX Optical Port Specifications The optical port specifications for the 100 Base-FX plug-in converter card at the central side are listed in the following table. -
Page 19: 1000Base-X Optical Port Specifications
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 2.4.3 1000Base-X Optical Port Specifications As the SFP module is used in the 1000Base-X media converter cards, regarding the 1000Base-X optical port specifications, please refer to the datasheet of the SFP module used. -
Page 20: Web-Based Management
This guide describes how to use the Web-based management interface to configure and maintain your GMC200 media converter system. It is intended for network managers who are responsible for configuring the system. This guide assumes prior knowledge and understanding of the terminology, theories, and practices and specific knowledge about the networking devices, protocols, and interfaces that comprise your network. -
Page 21: System Information
It is important to note that GMC200 management system will not automatic log out even if the webpage stays inactive for a period of time. You shall close the page if you think it is necessary. -
Page 22: Select Chassis
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.2 Select Chassis As a single GMC200 network management unit can manage up to 4 chassis, you shall select a chassis to be managed and monitored prior to any operation. The following figure shows that all the four chassis are connected and are powered. -
Page 23: Chassis Information
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.3 Chassis Information There are four functional items under the “Chassis Information” tab. They are: • Chassis Details • Converter Location, and • Converter Details. You can display all the chassis related information and configure the local and remote converter parameters here. -
Page 24: Converter Location
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.3.2 Converter Location The local and remote converter locations can be defined in the following web page. The information could be used to identify the converter. You can put the customers name or location here. -
Page 25: Converter Details
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.3.3 Converter Details The following screen capture shows the port status for the selected chassis. The management software will only show the slot status with a plug- in in it. If the remote converter is not connected or powered off, its status will not show on the page. -
Page 26: Converter Status And Configuration
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.3.4 Converter Status and Configuration You can browse the converter status and configuration page either by clicking the number shown in the “Slot No.” column of “Converter Details” page as above, or direct clicking the converter shown in the chassis graphic. - Page 27 GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide • Reboot Converter: When you click the “Reboot Converter” button, both the local and remote converters will perform software reset, but all the configurations will be kept. • Default Converter: When you click the “Default Converter” button, both the local and remote converters will be reconfigured back to the factory default.
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Page 28: Mib Counters
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.3.5 MIB Counters You can show the converter MIB counters by clicking the web page button of “Show MIB Counters” under the “Local Converter Control” tab. The total of 32 MIB counters will be shown as following web page. All the MIB counters... -
Page 29: Snmp Configurations
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite and defined in RFC1157. SNMPv1 is version one, or the original standard protocol. GMC200 management system supports SNMPv1. You can configure SNMPv1 read/write and read-only community strings, enable or disable trap mode settings. -
Page 30: Snmp Trap Configuration
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.4.2 SNMP Trap Configuration To create SNMP traps, you should open the “Trap Configuration” page under the “SNMP Configurations” as shown below. First you need to select where the traps come from, then you can select the trap item status, including... -
Page 31: Network Settings
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.5 Network Settings If you want to manage and monitor the GMC200 media converter system remotely, you must have a proper network setting for the system, which include the IP address, subnet mask and default gateway as shown in the following figure. -
Page 32: Tftp Utilities
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.6 TFTP Utilities GMC200 media converter system provides TFTP utilities for remotely updating the system firmware, system configuration backup and restore. The whole system setup and configuration information can be backup to a data file and then restore back to the system. This feature is helpful for the system administrator to keep track the network information in a safe place, and to speed up the system recover from hardware failure. -
Page 33: Other Utilities
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.7 Other Utilities The other utilities menu includes four items: • System alarm log, • Real-Time clock, • User account settings, • Serial port settings, and • Loopback test. 3.7.1 Alarm The logged alarms can be shown by clicking “System Alarm Log” under the “Other Utilities”. -
Page 34: Real-Time Clock
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide records, if you have not cleaned up the alarm log for a long period of time, the previous alarms will be over-written by the new one. 3.7.2 Real-Time Clock You can show and modify the real-time clock setting by clicking the “Real- Time Clock”... -
Page 35: User Account Settings
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.7.3 User Account Settings The user account settings page provides you a facility to change the user names and passwords. The total of user accounts available are three, the followings are the default settings: 1. - Page 36 GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide factory default by pressing and holding the reset button on the face plat of the network management card for more than 5 seconds.
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Page 37: Serial Port Settings
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.7.4 Serial Port Settings You can show the following serial port setting by clicking the “Serial Port Settings” under the “Other Utilities”. -
Page 38: Loopback Testing
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.7.5 Loopback Testing You can show the loopback test page by clicking the “Loopback Testing” under the “Other Utilities”. If you click the “Apply” button on the “Loopback Testing” page, the local converter will automatically send out 100 loopback frames to the remote converter and then check if the loopback frames are successfully looping back. - Page 39 GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide To do the loopback test, you shall follow the two procedures: • Select the card number to be tested, and click “Loopback Test” button, you will see the following page:...
- Page 40 GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide • After a few seconds, the loopback test result will be shown as following:...
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Page 41: Restart Chassis
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.8 Restart Chassis By clicking the “Restart Chassis” button, you can restart the management module with all the setting unchanged. - Page 42 GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide...
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Page 43: Snmp Monitor
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 4 SNMP Monitor GMC200 supports standard Ethernet management protocol, user can monitor GMC200 through SNMP software. The following examples are taking ‘MIB-Brower’ from iReasoning company to monitor GMC200. 4.1 Software Installation Double click the installation file; it will come on a figure like this,... - Page 44 GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide Choose “Next” to select both MIB Brower and Start Menu and Desktop Icons. Choose an installation location.
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Page 45: Mib Brower Usages
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide Click “Close” to complete the installation. 4.2 MIB Brower Usages Launch MIB Brower, the following figure will be shown. - Page 46 GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide User can load a MIB file to the MIB tree on the top-left. Choose RFC1213-MIB The RFC1213-MIB and its associated nodes will be shown like this.
- Page 47 GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide To monitor the GMC200, it required to Input the correct IP address to the Address column, and click the “advanced…” button, set up the correct read and write community.
- Page 48 Select “system”, all system node information are listed. Choose “sysDescr” node and choose “Get” Operation; when the “Go” button has been clicked, the system description of GMC200 will be given as follow. However, if the “walk” operation has been chosen at this point, all node...
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Page 49: Command Line Interface (Cli)
5.1 Main Command Menu Having setup the terminal at the PC side and connected the terminal to GMC200 network management card via straight through DB9 cable, you can start the network management by typing “menu” at the terminal side , then you will be asked to type the user name and password, as shown below, in order to login to the management windows. -
Page 50: System Information
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide figure will be activated. 5.2 System Information The system information will be shown after you type “show” command in the command line as below. Some of the listed information here can be modified by “set” command described in later section. - Page 51 GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide “card stat”, “card pre”, “card infor” and “card loc” commands are used to display the card status, card present, card information and card location information, respectively, as shown in the following figures. While the rest of the commands are used to configure the system.
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Page 55: Select A Chassis
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 5.4 Select a Chassis As single management unit of GMC200 can manage up to four chassis, you must select a chassis at any time before you try to configure and monitor the media converters in the chassis. The four commands used are: •... -
Page 56: Network Information
5.6 SNMP The screen capture shown in the following figure are for SNMP. You shall configure the parameters properly before you can use SNMP to manage GMC200 media converter system. Please refer to the SNMP references for... -
Page 57: Alarm
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide you benefits. 5.7 Alarm Two alarm associated commands are available for the system administrator. The first one is to list all the alarms logged and the second one is to clear all the previous alarms. -
Page 58: Set System Information
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 5.8 Set System Information There are 6 commands used to set the system information, which include • User account 1 >> include the user name and the password, • User account 2 >> include the user name and the password, •... -
Page 59: Reset Command
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 5.10 Reset Command After typing “reset’ in the command line, the following interactive page will appear in the console. You have to confirm the reset action by typing “y”, any other character will lead to end the “reset” command. The “reset” command is used to reset the management software and change all the setting back to the factory default. - Page 60 GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide any other character will lead to end the “reboot” command. The “reboot” command is used to restart the management software and keep all the setting unchanged.
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