Cisco ONS 15600 Series

December 13, 2004

Products Affected

Problem Description

When multiple SNMP community strings are specified where the individual community string exceeds 20 characters both Active and Standby 15600-TSC's may reboot continuously and will not recover.

Background

This issue was found during internal testing and has been resolved in R5.0.0.

Problem Symptoms

Continuous reboot of both the Active and Standby 15600-TSC's after provisioning multiple SNMP trap destinations with community strings exceeding 20 charaters. This issue can be avoided by specifying no more than two community strings per NE with a maximum string length of 20 characters per community string.

Workaround/Solution

This issue has been resolved in Cisco Transport Controller (CTC) R5.0.0 available in January 2005.

Note:?Customers must upgrade to the 15600-SSXC after upgrade to CTC R5.0.0. To obtain the 15600-SSXC's necessary to support CTC R5.0.0, submit your request using the 15600-SSXC Upgrade Program.

For customers that are currently running CTC Releases R1.0, R1.1.0, R1.1.1, R1.1.2, R1.1.3, R1.3.1 and R1.4.0, do NOT specify more than 2 SNMP community strings or exceed 20 characters per community string.

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