Chapter 5 Datacom Testing
Monitoring a Datacom interface
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12 To check other result categories, press Cancel to return to the BERT
menu, and then select a result category.
You have finished the test.
Monitoring a Datacom interface
In monitor mode you can use the E1/Datacom Tester to non-intrusively monitor
traffic in both directions on a specified interface standard.
1 From the BERT menu, select Configuration.
2 Set the test mode to Monitor. See “Specifying the test mode” on page 53.
3 Specify the other settings on the Configuration menu, as needed.
See “Specifying the interface standard” on page 53.
See “Specifying timing parameters” on page 54.
See “Specifying polarity settings” on page 55.
See “Specifying data parameters” on page 57.
See “Specifying async settings” on page 58.
See “Specifying flow control settings” on page 59.
See “Specifying G.821 performance settings” on page 60
4 Connect the E1/Datacom Tester to the circuit. See “Connecting the E1/
Datacom Tester to the circuit” on page 61.
5 Press Cancel to return to the BERT menu, and then select Restart.
6 Verify that the Sync LED illuminates green.
7 From the BERT menu, select Results soft key, and then select BERT.
8 To check other result categories, press Cancel to return to the BERT
menu, and then select a result category.
You have finished the test.
Frame Relay testing
After the physical interface has been verified, you can use the E1/Datacom
Tester’s Frame Relay option to monitor frame relay traffic, and to transmit and
receive frame relay frames to commission and maintain frame relay services.
With the Frame Relay testing feature, results such as LMI message stats, error
results, DCLI status, and link trace results are available.
Launching the Frame Relay
application
The following procedure describes how to launch the datacom application.
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