Nortel V2 Instruction Manual

Magellan Vector 2.0 Release Notes, Issue 1.9.1

Magellan Vector 2.0 Maintenance Release

Release Notes

Software Release Date: June 15 1998

Issue: 1.9.1

*Magellan is a trademark of Northern Telecom

Printed in Canada

Magellan Vector 2.0 Release Note, Issue 1.9.1

Revision Record

Issue Date Purpose

1.2 97-04-21 Summarize the Vector 2.0.3 Release

1.3 97-05-28 Summarize the Vector 2.0.4 Release

1.4 97-07-15 Summarize the Maintenance Release for VSS2.0.5

1.5 97-09-30 Summarize the Maintenance Release for VSS2.0.6

1.6 97-11-10 Summarize the Maintenance Release for VSS2.0.7

1.7 97-12-04 Summarize the Maintenance Release for VSM 2.0.5

1.8 98-02-16 Summarize the Maintenance Release for VSM 2.0.6

and VSS 2.0.8

1.9 98-04-17 Summarize the Maintenance Release for VSM 2.0.7

and VSS 2.0.9

1.9.1 98-06-15 Change the upgrade and downgrade procedures for

VSS 2.0.9. Correct the Hardware Summary table.

Magellan Vector 2.0 Release Notes, Issue 1.9.1

Table of Contents

5 Revision Record 2

6 Table of Contents 3

7 Chapter 1 Introduction 5

Conﬁguration Supported 5

Functionality Supported 5

New Hardware 5

VSS 6

VSM 6

MDP 7

Documentation 7

New contents in this release 7

Exclusions 7

8 Chapter 2

Release Considerations 8

9 Chapter 3

Service Requests11

Unresolved Service Requests 11

Descriptions of Unresolved Service Requests 11

Solved Service Requests 13

Descriptions of Solved Service Requests 13

10 Chapter 4

Vector documentation 15

NTPs available with this release 15

Installing NTPs online 16

Viewing NTPs 17

Addendum to NTP 241-9501-301 Vector Management Interface User Guide 17

Changes to NTP 241-9501-301 Vector Management Interface User Guide 19

Addendum to NTP 241-9501-301 Vector Management Interface

User Guide 20

Resetting the Network Module 20

Changes to NTP 241-9501- 501 Vector Switch Hardware Maintenance Guide 20

Selecting a MAC address 21

Removing and installing high-speed interconnect (HSI) cables 21

Addendum to NTP 241-9501-301 Vector Management Interface User Guide 24

Addendum to NTP 241-9501-501 Vector Switch Hardware Maintenance Guide 25

Replacing link modules 25

Replacing link select cards 27

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Appendix A

Upgrade Procedure 30

A.1 In Service Upgrade Procedure 31

A.2 Out of Service Upgrade Procedure 31

A.3 Out of Service Downgrade Procedure 35

Appendix B

Hardware Summary 40

Hardware Vintages 40

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Chapter 1

Introduction

These release notes highlight the functionality new to this Vector Maintenance

Release in the areas of Hardware, Vector Switching System (VSS) software,

Vector System Manager (VSM) software, and Magellan Data Provider (MDP)

software.This Maintenance Release provides bug ﬁxes for the Vector Switch

Software (VSS) and the Vector System Manager (VSM) software. See chapter

3 for the list of resolved bug ﬁxes.

Included in these release notes:

• Chapter 1 provides an overview of this document and the product

functionality included or excluded for this release.

• Chapter 2 contains general release considerations.

• Chapter 3 lists all the Service Requests that are resolved and high priority

unresolved Service Requests in this release

• Chapter 4 provides a list of the Vector Release 2.0.X Northern Telecom

Publications (NTPs), the procedure for accessing the Vector installation

document (NTP 241-9501-103), and last minute changes and additions to

the NTPs.

• Appendix A contains Vector Switching System software upgrade and

installation procedure for Release VSS2.0.8 Vector product.

• Appendix B is a summary of the available hardware.

Conﬁguration Supported

• 2.5 or 5.0 Gbit/s Vector switches with the Vector Switching System (VSS)

software

• The Vector System Manager (VSM)

• The Magellan Data Provider (MDP)

Functionality Supported

New Hardware

• Link Module

• Link Selector

• Netmod Extender

• External Synchronization Interface (ESI)

• Back Plane

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• Power Module

• Fan Unit

• ASX-1000 air ﬁlter

• BIP II

VSS • Duplex operation (manual, fault-driven and forced SWACT)

• Vector 1.1 ER6 and Vector 2.0.4 functionality

• Hardware inventory

• ESI DS1 BITS

• ESI Line Timing for OC-3/STM-1, J2, DS3, E3, and OC-12/STM-4

Netmods

• Traps (new hardware and SWACT)

• VMI

• OAM cells for OC12, OC3, DS1, DS3, E1, E3, J2 interfaces

• Mixed i960HA SCP pair and i960CF SCP pair conﬁguration support

• Called Address Screening

• Enhanced Trafﬁc Management

• Enhanced Connection Admission Control (ECAC)

• SVC Failure Cause Counters and Traps

VSM • Vector 1.1 ER6 and Vector 2.0.4 functionality

• Discovery (new hardware)

• Equipment management (new hardware)

• Fault management (new hardware and SWACT)

• Manual and Forced SWACT

• ESI DS1 BITS

• ESI Line Timing for OC-3/STM-1, J2, DS3, E3, and OC-12/STM-4

Netmods

• OAM cells for OC12, OC3, DS1, DS3, E1, E3, J2 interfaces

• VSM-ForeView co-existence

• Called Address Screening

• Enhanced Trafﬁc Management

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• Enhanced CAC

• SVC Failure Cause Counters and Traps

MDP • Billing support for fabric redundancy

• Updated BDF formats

Documentation

• Release Notes

• NTPs

New contents in this release

• VSM and VSS bug ﬁxes, see chapter 3.

Exclusions Excluded from this release:

• Thermal below 5OC and above 40OC

Excluded from the product:

• Fore IP and SPANS

• ARP server on switch

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Chapter 2

Release Considerations

The following table lists the latest compatible releases for the products shown:

Product Release Table

Use the following instructions to load the MDP patch:

1) Log on to the MDP server.

2) Download (copy or ftp) the MDP patch ﬁle (P096_01.tar) to the MDP

server.

3) Stop any MDP processing by typing:

/iws/mdp/mdpadm shutdown

4) As root user, extract the ﬁx from the tar ﬁle:

tar -xvfp P096_01.tar

The new executables will be propagated to the correct directories.

5) Restart MDP processing by typing:

/iws/mdp/mdpadm restart

The MDP BDF output formats have changed in the MDP R9.6 release. See

the Vector Data Collection System User Guide (NTP-241-9501-320) for

details.

Product Release

VSS (on-switch) VSS2.0.9_130_98.tar

VSM (off-switch) VSM2.0.7_131_HP-UX.tar

VSM2.0.7_131_SunOS.tar

MDP (off-switch) mdp096pai_sp413.tar.01

Following MDP Patch is required:

P096_01.tar

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The Vector Release 2.0.X switch does not support ARP Server functionality.

In cases where customers are running ARPSERVER on Vector Release 1.1,

they need to migrate their ARPSERVER conﬁguration onto a host before or

during the upgrade to a Vector 2.0.X network.

Only one ESI module per switch is supported in this release.

The Partial Packet Policing function of the Enhanced Trafﬁc Management

Feature requires the revision J fabric (PEC NTET51AD).

To support a mixed i960CF/HA SCP conﬁguration, you must upgrade the

Vector Switching System (VSS) Software to at least Vector Release 2.0.2. In

the mixed i960CF/HA SCP conﬁguration, each fabric pair must be

conﬁgured either with two i960CF SCPs or two i960HA SCPs. As shown in

following ﬁgure, the i960CF SCP cannot coexist on the same fabric pair as

the i960HA SCP.

Switch conﬁguration with both i960CF and i960HA processors

The “conﬁguration VCC modify” command is removed in Vector Release

2.0.4 and higher. In order to modify an UPC contract, you must delete the PVC

or PVP and then reprovision the PVC or the PVP with the new UPC contract.

Hot-Swapping (plugging IN and OUT on in-active fabric) the SCP CF

processor card (NTET11AA or ACCA0130-2001 SCP-ASXCF Rev. K/L/M)

can cause permanent damage to the board. The work-around is to remove the

fabric with the SCP card. This problem is resolved in the SCP HA processor

card (that is, NTET11AC).

The ESI card takes 125 seconds to sync to the source. Bellcore standards

indicate that a Stratum 3 clock must lock within 100 seconds.

fabric 1

fabric 2

fabric 3

fabric 4

i960HA SCP

i960HA SCP i960CF SCP

i960CF SCP

active plane

inactive plane

fabric 1

fabric 2

fabric 3

fabric 4

i960CF SCP

i960CF SCP i960HA SCP

i960HA SCP

active plane

inactive plane

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Customers who are running 2.0.3, 2.0.4 or 2.0.7 and before with pmp or

backplane throughpaths conﬁgured must use the upgrade and installation

procedure described in Appendix A.

New ﬁrmware for the External Synchronization Card has been introduced

which improves the locking characteristics to the BITS timing source. A

version 9 listed under conﬁguration esi show will be displayed for ESI cards

containing the new updated ﬁrmware.

Fast SPVC re-routing in the event of a cable failure has been introduced for

OC3 and J2 Netmods.

The reset command introduced in Vector Release VSS2.0.4 under operation

linkmod has been replaced in VSS2.0.8 with the command operation netmod

reset. This VMI command provides the ability re-initialize the speciﬁed

netmod. Note: Invoking this command causes service disruptions to all ports

on the affected netmod.

Users who wish to install or migrate to MDP version 10.3.1 should refer to the

Magellan Data Provider User Guide, NTP 241-6001-309 for installation and

operation instructions. MDP 10.3.1 (version MDP103Pax) requires the Solaris

operating system and application of patch 10.3-14.

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