Specifications

MPW-1 MP-4100 Ver. 2.0 Monitoring Performance 4-1
Chapter 4
Troubleshooting and
Diagnostics
This Chapter explains the MPW-1-specific troubleshooting and diagnostic
functions. These functions include:
• Collection of MPW-1 performance monitoring and status data – presented in
Section 4.1 .
• Detection of configuration (sanity) errors – presented in
Section 4.2 . This
section covers only the MPW-1 specific sanity errors: for other sanity errors,
refer to the
Megaplex-4100 Installation and Operation Manual .
• Interpretation of alarms – presented in
Section 4.3 . This section covers only
the MPW-1 specific alarms: for other alarms, refer to the
Megaplex-4100
Installation and Operation Manual
.
• Troubleshooting instructions:
Section 4.4 .
• Diagnostic tests for checking transmission paths – presented in
Section 4.5 .
The information presented in this Chapter supplements the general
Megaplex-4100 troubleshooting and diagnostics instructions contained in the
Megaplex-4100 Installation and Operation Manual .
If you need additional support for this product, see
Section 4.6 for technical
support information.
4.1 Monitoring Performance
This section presents the MPW-1 performance statistics and status data relevant
to TDMoIP applications. For other monitoring tasks, refer to the
Megaplex-4100
Installation and Operation Manual
.
When using the Megaplex-4100 supervision utility, the performance monitoring
functions are accessed under the Monitoring menu.
MPW-1 collects the following types of performance monitoring and status data:
• For MPW-1 Ethernet physical ports:
 Status data for each Ethernet port, and SFP data when the MPW-1
Ethernet ports are equipped with optical interfaces
 Transmission performance statistics
When using the Megaplex-4100 supervision utility, the MPW-1 Ethernet
physical port performance monitoring functions are accessed after selecting
the desired module under Monitoring > Physical Layer > I/O > Ethernet.