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Checking and Powering-Up

Checking and Powering-Up

This chapter explains how to check that you are ready and then perform the initial power up.

Before proceeding to this chapter, you should first complete the procedures in:

and before that, the procedures in either:

and before that, the procedures in either:

Before operating the BPX switch, verify that the following procedures have been performed:

Step 2   The BPX switch power cord is plugged into an appropriate power outlet.

Step 3   The full complement of cards for the specific node are mounted in the correct slots, correctly seated, and locked in place.

Step 4   The T3 or E3 connections are attached appropriately.

Step 5   A control terminal (or Cisco WAN Manager Work Station) is connected to the CONTROL port on the LM-BCC in back slot 7/8, and the terminal's power cord plugged into the appropriate voltage wall outlet.

Step 6   If desired, a printer is connected to the AUXILIARY port on the LM-BCC in back slot 7/8 and the printer power cord is plugged into the appropriate power outlet.

Step 7   If desired, modems are connected to the CONTROL port or AUXILIARY port, as applicable, on the LM-BCC in back slot 7/8, and the modem power cords plugged into the appropriate power wall outlet.

Having completed the preceding checklist, proceed to power up the BPX switch:

Step 2   From the front of the BPX switch, observe the cards go through initial diagnostic self-tests.

• The AC power supply's -48V indicator is on.
  
  
• The standby BCCs red "FAIL" light flashes until self-testing and configuration updates are completed. The other BCC becomes active immediately, but also performs self-testing and configuration updating. The entire process may take several minutes to complete.
  
  
• The remaining cards show "FAIL" for a few seconds, then become active or standby.
  
  
• The ASM DC LEDs are both green, indicating that the DC voltages on the two DC power busses are within tolerance.
  
  
• There may be alarms showing on the ASM, BXMs, BMEs, and BNIs.
  Alarms may be present on ATM trunk connectors that have not been physically connected to their associated lines.
  
  

Note   New nodes will not have any configured trunks, lines or ports therefore all cards should be in Standby mode except for one BCC which should be Active.

BPX Switch Startup Diagnostic

The BPX switch software provides a group of diagnostic tests to be run on the system's hardware at power-up. The startup diagnostic either passes or fails the BCC(s) tests. The test result is displayed on the screen of a control terminal connected to the CONTROL port on the backcard in slot 7 of the BPX. A successful power up results in a pass message.

Note   On power-up, the BCC in slot 7 is always the active BCC.

If a BCC fails the power-up diagnostic, it will not boot. If that happens, perform this procedure:

Step 2   Reseat the BCC in the same slot.

Step 3   Wait for the power-up diagnostic to run.

Step 4   If the BCC fails the power-up diagnostics a second time, replace it with another BCC that is known to have passed the test.

Once the software has successfully booted up, the display (a terminal connected to the CONTROL port or an NMS workstation connected via a telnet session to the LAN port) shows the software online screen as in the following example.

At this point, you may login as a user to the node.

Sample display:

pubsbpx1       TN    No User         BPX 15    9.2      Nov.  21 1998       14:15 PST 
                                                                                
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Enter User ID: 

Provisioning the BPX Switch

Provisioning is the general term for configuring ports, lines, trunks, and adding connections to the BPX Switch.

Up to this point, you have used the command line interface (CLI) to perform the installation and power-up. You could use the CLI to perform provisioning also.

However, that is an exacting and time-consuming approach for most general provisioning tasks. It is recommended that you use Cisco Network Management, that is, the Cisco WAN Manager Workstation and Cisco's graphical WAN Manager and CiscoView applications to configure ports, lines, trunks and visually interconnect the BPX to your network topology.

For set-up and configuration procedures for Cisco Network Management, see Chapter 20, Configuring Network Management.

For configuration procedures for the BPX switch, proceed to Chapter 17, Initial BPX 8600 Node Configuration.

You might also need to refer to the following Cisco manuals:

• Cisco WAN Manager Operations
  
  
• Cisco MPLS Controller Software Configuration Guide
  
  
• Cisco SES PNNI Controller Software Configuration Guide.
  
  
• Cisco WAN Switching Command Reference
  
  
• Cisco WAN Switching SuperUser Command Reference