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Cisco ONS 15454 Procedure Guide, R5.0
December 2004
Chapter 7 Manage Alarms
NTP-A32 Provision External Alarms and Controls on the Alarm Interface Controller
Note Suppressing one or more alarms prevents them from appearing in Alarm or History windows or
in any other clients. The suppress command causes CTC to display them in the Conditions
window with their severity, their severity color code, and service-affecting status.
Step 3 Complete the “DLP-A523 Discontinue Alarm Suppression” task on page 22-19 to discontinue alarm
suppression and resume normal alarm reporting.
Stop. You have completed this procedure.
NTP-A32 Provision External Alarms and Controls on the Alarm
Interface Controller
Note For information about the AIC external alarms and controls, virtual wire, and orderwire, refer to the
Cisco ONS 15454 Reference Manual.
Step 1 Verify the backplane wiring. See the “NTP-A8 Attach Wires to Alarm, Timing, LAN, and Craft Pin
Connections” procedure on page 1-15 for information about the ONS 15454 backplane pins.
a. For external alarms, verify that the external-device relays are wired to the ENVIR ALARMS IN
backplane pins.
b. For external controls, verify that the external relays are wired to the ENVIR ALARMS OUT
backplane pins.
Step 2 Complete the “DLP-A60 Log into CTC” task on page 17-66. If you are already logged in, continue with
Step 3.
Step 3 In the node view, double-click the AIC card on the shelf graphic. The card view appears.
Step 4 If you are provisioning external alarms, click the Provisioning > External Alarms tab (Figure 7-4). If
you are not provisioning external alarms, skip Steps 5 through 7 and go to Step 8.
Purpose Use this procedure to create external (environmental) alarms and external
controls on the Alarm Interface Controller (AIC).
Tools/Equipment An AIC card must be installed in Slot 9.
Prerequisite Procedures NTP-A24 Verify Card Installation, page 4-2
Required/As Needed As needed
Onsite/Remote Onsite or remote
Security Level Provisioning or higher