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Chapter 4

Monitoring Your 3000 Series
Secure Gateway Router


You can monitor your 3000 Series by checking the status lights on the front panel of your gateway router and also on the connectors and modules on the back panel of your gateway router.

Front Panel

Analog Voice Module

DDS CSU/DSU Module

E1 Module

Ethernet Fixed Connector

Ethernet Module

ISDN Modules

SDSL Module

T1 CSU/DSU Module

Front Panel

The status lights on the front of the 3000 Series indicate the current overall status of the gateway router, as well as the status of the data ports and the voice ports.

Light State Indicates . . .
PWR
(Power)
On

Blinking

Off

Power supply is operating within its
specifications.

Bad power supply.

Power is turned off, or power supply is bad.

OK On

Blinking

Off

3000 Series is running its operational software.

3000 Series is running its diagnostic or startup (BOOT) software.

3000 Series is not running.

Light State Indicates . . .
ALM On


Off

The 3000 Series detected a noncatastrophic hardware failure during power up.

Power is turned off or unit powered up okay.

Data Ports

There are four lights on the front panel that indicate the status of the data ports.

Light State Indicates . . .
ETH
(Ethernet)
On

Blinking

Off

LAN connection to your local network is up.

3000 Series is sending and receiving user data on its LAN link.

Ethernet connection is not running.

D1
D2
D3


On

Blinking

Off

Status of optional modules installed in slots 1, 2, and 3.

Connection is up, and the 3000 Series is sending maintenance data to the remote device on its link.

3000 Series is sending and receiving user data on its link.

Module installed in the particular slot is not running, or no module is installed.

Voice Ports

There are four lights on the front panel that indicate the status of the voice ports. Analog voice modules can have either two or four ports. Lights V1 and V2 apply to the two-port model. Lights V1, V2, V3, V4 apply to the four-port model.

Light State Indicates . . .
V1, V2, V3, or V4 On

Off

Call is active

Call is not active

Analog Voice Module

Each port of the fixed Analog Voice module has two status lights.

Light State Indicates . . .
Off

Channel is not configured

Green On

Slow Blink

Fast Blink

Channel is idle

Call is active

Call is being set up (seizure inbound or outbound)

Red On

Blinking

Channel busied out (outbound seizure to block incoming calls)

No PBX response (no inbound response to outbound seizure)

DDS CSU/DSU Module

This module has three amber status lights.

Light Indicates . . .
ALM Alarm condition indicating the loss of loop current, bi-polar violations, loss of signal, out of service/out of sync, out of frame, and unmatched control code.

TST Module is in loopback test mode.

LOS Loss of signal indicating that the module is unable to sync to the incoming data stream.

E1 Module

This module has three amber status lights.

Light Indicates . . .
ALM Alarm condition indicating the following:

  • Alarm Indicator Signal (AIS)

  • Remote Alarm Indicator (RAI)

  • Loss of Carrier, Loss of Signal

TST Module is in loopback test mode.

LOS Loss of sync indicating that the module is unable to sync to the incoming data stream.

Ethernet Fixed Connector

The fixed Ethernet connector has two status lights. The left one is for link status, and the right one is for traffic activity status.

Light State Indicates . . .
Left (Link Status) On

Blinking

Off

Ethernet connection is established.

N/A

No Ethernet connection established.

Right (Activity Status) On

Blinking

Off

N/A

Traffic is being sent or received over the Ethernet connection.

N/A

Ethernet Module

The Ethernet module has two status lights, one for link status and one for traffic activity status.

Light State Indicates . . .
LNK (Link Status) On

Blinking

Off

Ethernet connection is established.

N/A

No Ethernet connection established.

ACT (Activity Status) On

Blinking

Off

N/A

Traffic is being sent or received over the Ethernet connection.

N/A

ISDN Modules

There are three green status lights on the ISDN U and S/T modules. These lights indicate the ISDN BRI status of the two B and one D channels. Both B and D channel lights go off when you restart the gateway router.

Light State Indicates . . .
D On

Blinking

Off

ISDN S/T module is linked to the telephone company.

Traffic is on the D channel.

ISDN S/T module is not linked to the telephone company. This is an error in North America but okay in Europe.

B1 On

Blinking

Off

Call established on the B1 channel.

Traffic is on the B1 channel.

B1 channel is not in use or is idle.

B2 On

Blinking

Off

Call established on the B2 channel.

Traffic is on the B2 channel.

B2 channel is not in use or is idle.

SDSL Module

This module has three amber status lights.

Light Indicates . . .
ALM Alarm condition indicating a loss of communication between the SDSL module and the host processor.

TST Module is in loopback test mode.

LOS Loss of sync indicating that the module is not activated with the DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Loop Access Multiplexor).

T1 CSU/DSU Module

This module has three amber status lights.

Light Indicates . . .
ALM Alarm condition indicating standard blue, yellow, or red alarm conditions.

TST Module is in loopback test mode.

LOS Loss of sync indicating that the module is unable to sync to the incoming data stream.



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