User's Manual

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2 Maintenance for R8.2csi 555-233-119 Issue 1
April 2000
Maintenance Objects
3-1004SYNC (Synchronization)
3
Synchronization Troubleshooting
For Stratum 4 operation, major and minor alarms indicate that there is a problem
with the system synchronization references. These alarms are resolved when the
alarmed synchronization reference is restored.
The
status synchronization
and
display synchronization
commands are used
to determine the current system synchronization reference and the primary and
secondary references that are administered respectively.
Other commands associated with Synchronization Maintenance are
disable
synchronization-switch
and
enable synchronization-switch.
These
commands are used to disable the ability of Synchronization Maintenance to
switch between synchronization references and to enable this switching ability,
respectively. The
set synchronization
command is executed only after
synchronization has been disabled and is used to manually switch to a specific
synchronization reference. This command is useful to diagnose synchronization
problems by forcing a specific reference (DS1 or Tone-Clock) to be the system
synchronization reference to determine if a specific reference is providing a valid
timing signal. For Stratum 3 operation, only a TN780 Tone-Clock circuit pack may
be specified. To switch synchronization to the Stratum 3 clock, use the
enable
synchronization-switch
command after verifying that the Stratum 3 clock is
wired correctly.
The system synchronization planner must avoid creating a
timing loop when
administering the primary and secondary synchronization references in a
system. A timing loop exists whenever a system receives timing from another
system whose timing reference is directly or indirectly derived from itself. Timing
loops can lead to loss of digital data between systems that are exchanging data
with any system within the loop. An invalid timing signal is also generated by any
system within the loop, thus propagating the invalid timing signal to any
system(s) using a system within the loop as a synchronization reference. Figure
3-41 shows a timing loop and a correct distribution of timing between the
systems.