Dumb question about TN's

[PaulMcGuinness]

Hi All,

I've got myself totally confused with how TN's are structured.

I've managed to get access to a Succession, but I having trouble remembering what the difference is in the TN fields on big switches...

If I have a TN like this:-

TN 004 0 14 02

What does each digit set indicate (i.e. Cabinet, Card, Slot, Circuit)

And how does that compare to a 2 digit one like this:-

TN 026 13

or ones with zeros in the middle pair:-

TN 005 0 00 01
TN 005 0 00 02
TN 005 0 00 03

Many thanks people,

Paul

 

[x11tech]

large system

lll s cc uu


loop, shelf, card, unit




small system

ccc 0 00 uu


card, unit


On small systems, the architecture is such that you can tell which cabinet you are in based on the card number.



This has changed somewhat with CS1000 5.0, as small systems have begun to emulate some of the large system architecture in software, while the large systems have begun to emulate some of the small system architecture in hardware.

On my CS1000E 5.0 at my office, we use loop 4 & 8 for two chassis. The MG1000E chassis are 4 slot, plus the MGC slot (5 slots total, not counting power)

So our cards would have TNs

lll s cc uu

even though it's the equivalent of a small option 11, 2 cabinet system (it's actually got the capacity of a single cabinet, but it physically has two chassis linked by IP instead of being linked by physical cabling. We did this specifically for the purpose of being able to explain the architecture better to visitors to our office... we're a distributor btw.)


The new architecture is complicated, but still based on the traditional methodologies. The learning curve from 25.40 is immense, but not that great a knowledge gap if you've previously had experience with 4.0 or greater.

 

[PaulMcGuinness]

Many thanks for the help. Much appreciated.

Regards,

Paul

 

[johnpoole]

TN 005 0 00 01
TN 005 0 00 02
TN 005 0 00 03

that is a small (opt 11) system, you can enter just the card and port

prt
tnb
5 1




john poole
bellsouth business
columbia,sc

 

[x11tech]

that is a small (opt 11) system, you can enter just the card and port

prt
tnb
5 1

Unfortunately, not for everything. I was forcibly reminded of this when I was trying to de-acquire an agent manually on an Option 11C (RLS 4.5) that had for some reason left a TN acquired even though CC6 said it was no longer acquired.

DACR AGT requires the full TN. I entered the command twice as dacr agt cc uu before remembering that. There are a couple of other commands that also want the full TN, but I cannot remember them all.