How to spot ununsed analogue lines on a CS1000?

[JonEB]

Our switch at work seems to have a large amount of analogue lines built from the guy who looked after it previously. I'm pretty sure that most of these lines will have been disconnected, but is there anyway to identify when a line was last used?

I know that with the M3900's if they have been disconnected they disable themselves on the switch and you can use the LDIS command in LD 32 to identify them. I'm wondering if there is something similar to ID unused analogue lines so I can tidy things up a bit?


Regards,

Jon

 

[Firebird Scrambler]

Personally, I'd hook up a analogue phone for each port to check for any dial tone and this would also mean earthing one leg in case you have earth call trunks.

If you don't get any dial tone, then they will probably be spare and you could always peg the trunk for a while to see if you get any queries reported.

All the best

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[JonEB]

Problem we have here is that people just disconnect things and don't inform us, so we probably have hundreds of lines that are built on the switch, but no longer in use. I was wondering if there was anyway to identify these phones on the switch.

 

[Firebird Scrambler]

Are you referring to trunks or extensions as your last line on your reply mentioned "identify these phones on the switch".

All the best

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[bhassell2000]

I think he is looking for programmed but unused 500 ports. I dont know of a way to find them except tracing them one by one or using a meter to see if there is a device on them when they ring. Or maybe call them and see if you hear a fax or modem tone.

Thanks,

Buddy

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[telebub]

We do it this way:

1) Capture a TNB of all 500 ports and convert the capture file into the Pepe dog spreadsheet.

2) Identify all analog ports that we KNOW are in service and being used.

3) Any other ports that we are unsure of, we disable them for a predetermined amount of time, maybe a month.

4) If anyone opens a ticket on a dead analog, we simply enable it

5) Once that month is up, all disabled analog ports get deleted and the jumpers pulled off the frame.

 

[trvlr1]

I would agree with bhassell2000, but also add, when you suspect you have found one, disable it first for a week or so before deleting it, just to make sure it really is not being used.

 

[Firebird Scrambler]

Use the tool below

http://www.ghtrout.com/files/ConversionUtility(BARS-TNB-More)_by_DB.zip

All the best

Firebird Scrambler
Meridian 1 / Succession and BCM / Norstar Programmer in the UK

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If it's working, then leave it alone!.