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Operations Interfaces
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Issue 3 June 2000
User-Definable Miscellaneous 
Discretes
—
Environmental Alarms and 
Controls 
6
To allow monitoring and control of equipment collocated with a DDM-2000 
FiberReach Multiplexer in a remote site, a set of user-definable miscellaneous 
discrete environmental alarms and controls is provided. 
Twenty-one miscellaneous discrete alarm/status points are provided to monitor 
environmental conditions at remote terminal sites (open door, high temperature, 
etc.). The first 14 points and points 16 through 21 are activated by contact 
closures. The fifteenth point (External Minor) is for monitoring of remote structure 
power and fan apparatus (for example, DC power shelf failure); this point is 
activated by a 
−
48 volt input. 
Four control points are provided to control equipment (pumps, generators, etc.) at 
remote terminal sites. When activated, the control points provide a contact closure 
between the control point output and ground. 
Miscellaneous discrete alarms/statuses and controls are transmitted between the 
remote DDM-2000 FiberReach Multiplexers and the DDM-2000 OC-3 Multiplexer 
host via the SONET section DCC. OS access to all miscellaneous discretes 
alarm/status points (1 through 21) is provided via TL1.
Figure 6-5 shows OS access to miscellaneous discretes through the DDM-2000 
Multiplexer at the CO. Access to all miscellaneous discrete alarm/status points is 
also provided through the CIT. The state of the control points can be reported but 
not controlled through the CIT. Control points are activated by the TL1 command 
OPR-EXT-CONT
.
The names and alarm levels of the 21 alarm/status points and the names of the 4 
control points can be provisioned through the CIT in remote systems. Refer to the 
set-attr-env, set-attr-cont, rtrv-attr-env, 
and 
rtrv-attr-
cont
 commands in Chapter 11, "Commands and Reports."