Hi All.
I have a challenge that I need to make as painless as possible.
My customer (a Hotel) with a 3300 Controller running MCD 4 has two peripheral Cabinets off a dual FIM Module (Cabinet 2 and Cabinet 3) which host Administrative extensions and Extended Peripheral Cabinets off the two Per Cabinets (Shelf 2) via Peripheral Interconnect Cards (copper) which host guest room extensions (Digital and analog).
Cabinet 2 Shelf 2 took some sort of hit and after replacing the cabinet with a new one and powering it up, noticed that some other cards are also not working, including the Peripheral Interconnect Card.
I do not have a spare Peripheral Interconnect Card but I have a FIM, a Peripheral Switch Controller card and a second Dual FIM Module on the controller which is being used to connect to an NSU and the Second FIM interface is free.
My Plan is to convert the replacement Cabinet to a Peripheral Cabinet (as opposed to Extended Peripheral Cabinet) using Fiber but that means I will have to change the PLIDs of all the programmed guest room extensions in that Cabinet (12 cards). So from 2 2 1 1 to 5 1 1 1 for example (if Cab 4 is being used by the NSU already).
Someone told me I should Program the new cabinet with the exact types of cards and then program bogus extensions on it. Once filled up, I should do a move swap command for each extension to move it over. This sounds like a lot of work still if I have to do it one-by-one nearly 200 times.
Please tell me there is another way to accomplish this that is simpler.
Your feedback will be greatly appreciated.
I have a challenge that I need to make as painless as possible.
My customer (a Hotel) with a 3300 Controller running MCD 4 has two peripheral Cabinets off a dual FIM Module (Cabinet 2 and Cabinet 3) which host Administrative extensions and Extended Peripheral Cabinets off the two Per Cabinets (Shelf 2) via Peripheral Interconnect Cards (copper) which host guest room extensions (Digital and analog).
Cabinet 2 Shelf 2 took some sort of hit and after replacing the cabinet with a new one and powering it up, noticed that some other cards are also not working, including the Peripheral Interconnect Card.
I do not have a spare Peripheral Interconnect Card but I have a FIM, a Peripheral Switch Controller card and a second Dual FIM Module on the controller which is being used to connect to an NSU and the Second FIM interface is free.
My Plan is to convert the replacement Cabinet to a Peripheral Cabinet (as opposed to Extended Peripheral Cabinet) using Fiber but that means I will have to change the PLIDs of all the programmed guest room extensions in that Cabinet (12 cards). So from 2 2 1 1 to 5 1 1 1 for example (if Cab 4 is being used by the NSU already).
Someone told me I should Program the new cabinet with the exact types of cards and then program bogus extensions on it. Once filled up, I should do a move swap command for each extension to move it over. This sounds like a lot of work still if I have to do it one-by-one nearly 200 times.
Please tell me there is another way to accomplish this that is simpler.
Your feedback will be greatly appreciated.