User`s guide

6-1

5100-A2-GB20-00

November 1996

Diagnostics

Overview

HotWire DSL provides you with three ways to monitor the health and status of its

cards and connections:

 LEDs located on the card.

 Diagnostic utilities accessible from an SNMP manager and the local

management utility that enable you to put either the local CO or the remote

CP card in loopback and send/receive test patterns.

 Operating and error statistics reported by an SNMP agent and/or the local

management utility.

This chapter describes the meaning of the LEDs and the use of the diagnostics

utilities. Chapter 4,

Configuring and Managing the Card

describes the operating

and error statistics.