Status Monitoring
The previous chapters have shown how FOXMAN-UN handles the alarms and monitors their status. Another aspect of managing a network is the ability to monitor the status of the access lines at customer sites or at the remote NE. This is useful both as a measure to prevent faults as well as to improve localization of faults that are already alarmed.
The following status monitoring functions are available:
• Monitor Signaling bits;
• Activation/deactivation states of ISDN and HDSL lines;
• Idle/busy states of POTS lines;
• Remote alarms and remote loops;
• Controlled slip counts of data channels and 2 Mbit/s signals;
• Performance information based on G.826.