Busying out a Signaling group for Testing? Need carrier on Standby?

[learningSkype]

I need to busy out a Trunk to test SNMP traps. I can busy out the Trunk members, no worry there. busying out trunk members is easy, busy and release commands, no sweat.

But what about busying the Signaling group? To me, that makes me nervous. This is because i came from the Nortel world where if you busy the Signaling group it doesn't always restore. Anyone have the same feelings or would you busy the Signaling group and just restore it, no second thoughts?

 

[DAVIDPAYNE]

Never really had an issue with busying a signal group. so no second thoughts for me.

 

[Wanebo]

Having worked on plenty of Nortel equipment I can understand your concerns. Having worked on more than a couple of Avaya CM's I can reassure you that it is nothing like the Nortel experience and you shouldn't be worried. The sig groups are made to be busied out and released on Red. That's how changes to the sig group get applied.

 

[learningSkype]

thank you both. appreciate the feedback and feel better about it now.

 

[kyle555]

You're still taking down a sig group. Add a bogus one. When the maintenance tests run in the background, the signaling group will be brought out of service because it can't stay in service and not be in an errored state.

Depending on the type of sig group, you'd get an alarm on the ISDN-SIG maintenance object or maybe SIP.

If you have an empty slot in your system, just change cabinet or media gateway, pretend there's a PRI in there and add a sig group on the D channel of the card that's missing. You should get a trap

 

[learningSkype]

Brilliant but how do i build a d-channel if i don't have a spare DS1? i can't build a signaling group unless i assign a d-channel and i have no more DS-1 boards.

 

[kyle555]

if you have an empty slot, change media-gateway or change cabinet will allow you to program a MM710 or TN464 in a slot. That's how you program ahead of time before the new card arrives.

You can add a card to the system, and it'll be in alarm. You can build a D channel and you should see a ISDN-SIG alarm. Just like if the card died or was removed!

 

[learningSkype]

Kyle, as always YOU DA MAN!! thanks a bagillion...quadrillion...and other illions!