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Monitoring ISDN Connections
You should read through this chapter very carefully, since it provides
important information on monitoring and controlling ISDN connec-
tions.
Monitoring ISDN connections is extremely important. It gives you an
impression of the number of ISDN connections established each day
and of the resulting connection charges. To keep connection charges
as low as possible, monitoring is indispensable for cost-effective use
of the NetWare®MultiProtocol Router
TM
for ISDN 3.1.
The NetWare MultiProtocol Router for ISDN 3.1 provides the follow-
ing monitoring features:
- ISDN Console to display detailed online information on ISDN
connections and on ISDN-Controllers and their interfaces. In
addition, all ISDN line management messages and connection
information can be stored in log files and different trace options
can be defined and enabled.
- ISDN Budget Manager to define the maximum amount of charges
allowed for an individual call destination per month, per week
and per day. When one of the maximum values is reached, the Call
Status of this call destination is disabled, i.e. no outgoing or
incoming connections are allowed to or from this destination.
- ISDN Connection Monitor to limit the maximum physical up-time,
the maximum outgoing calls and the maximum charge units per
interface by defining individual thresholds for these values. When
a threshold is exceeded, the interface is barred for outgoing and
incoming calls.
- NDS over ISDN Console to monitor NetWare 4.1 synchronization
traffic over ISDN.
This chapter contains the following sections:
- "Online Information via ISDN Console (ISDNCON.NLM)" on
page 242
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